Baltimore’s classical music community has a new reason to celebrate. Soprano Adia Evans, a proud Baltimore native and alumna of the Baltimore School for the Arts, has been named a 2026 George London Award winner—one of six singers to receive the competition’s top $12,000 prize at the 54th annual George and Nora London Foundation for Singers Competition.
The awards were announced February 20th at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York City, following the competition’s final round. Evans, 32, was selected from a pool of 180 applicants representing some of the most promising young opera singers across the United States and Canada.
A total of $80,000 in awards was distributed this year. Of the ten finalists who performed at Merkin Hall, six were named George London Award winners, each receiving $12,000. The remaining finalists were honored with Encouragement Awards of $2,000 each…