The National Association of Teachers of Singing is pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the National Student Auditions (NSA).

Semifinal and final auditions took place Thursday through Saturday, June 26-28, alongside the inaugural NATS AuditionCon at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To become an NSA semifinalist, student singers advanced through multiple audition levels, representing the top 15 in their age and training level from nearly 1,200 national preliminary entries.

For 2025, NATS welcomed 459 student singers to the NSA semifinals. The top three singers in each of the 38 categories advanced from semifinals to finals, collectively receiving more than $89,000 in prizes this year. (View the lists of 2025 NSA finalists and semifinalists).

2025 Winners in Classical NSA categories

The 2025 NSA includes the American Negro Spirituals categories. For the 2026 NSA cycle, NATS will rotate and offer the biennial Hall Johnson Spiritual Competition.

2025 Winners in AS 9 – Advanced American Negro Spirituals categories

2025 Winners in CM 7 – Upper Commercial Music Treble Voice

Rachel Goldenberg, Chair of the Roberta Stephens Scholarship Committee, presented baritone Ethan Fasnacht from Texas Tech University a $500 Roberta Stephens Scholarship for his outstanding performance of a Canadian art song. A student of Gregory Brookes, Ethan Fasnacht, performed “Song of Songs” from the song cycle, SING ME AT MIDNIGHT composed by Canadian composer, John Greer, in the finals of the Advanced Tenor, Baritone, and Bass Voices category.

The 2025 staff collaborative pianists were Kim Barroso, Lance Bastian, Mariya Broytman, Andrea Devito, Michael Gilch, Stephen Gross, Lori Hermanson, Aaron Hungerford, Sirapat Jittapirom, Joohee Kim, Nick Klein, Yoni Levyatov, Luke McGinnis, Stephen Powell, Jean-François Proulx, Margarita Shatilova, Lisa DeNolfo, Janet (Wan-Lin) Yu, and Mark Yurkanin.

Allen Henderson, Alexis Davis-Hazell, Karen Brunssen, and Carole Blankenship adjudicated finals in the classical and American Negro Spirituals categories. Alexis Davis-Hazell, Kevin Wilson, and Brian Leeper adjudicated the finals in the musical theatre categories. Trineice Robinson-Martin, Noel Smith, and Neal Tracy adjudicated the finals for the commercial music categories.

The 2025 NSA team in Philly included Alisa Belflower, Dan Johnson-Wilmot, Ellie Seligmann, Mark McQuade, Casey Carter, Melinda Brou, Stephanie Beinlich, Rebecca Geihsler-Chittom, Ian DeNolfo, Chip Duggan, Rebecca Pieper, Julie Kinscheck, Chad Cygan, Corbin Abernathy, and John Wright as well as Temple University hosts Marcus DeLoach and Lawrence (Larry) Indik.

Special thanks to all NSA coordinators, committees, panels, adjudicators, donors, collaborative pianists, Temple University, participating student-singers, and their NATS member-teachers.

BIG CONGRATS to all on another successful year of NSA!

All 2025 Winners