Open to American composers under the age of thirty, in odd-numbered years.
Mission: To build the vocal music repertoire and to encourage the creation of
vocal music of the highest quality by commissioning the winners to create new works.

Open to everyone, everywhere, Internet-based, in even-numbered years.
Mission: To encourage singers and pianists the world over to learn and perform art
songs by awarding cash prizes to and providing exposure for the winners.

Open to emerging professional singers and collaborative pianists everywhere, twice per year. Mission: To help train young singers and collaborative pianists by presenting
internationally-respected pedagogues from Europe in public masterclasses set in
prestigous New York City concert venues. (Beginning Fall, 2009)

The Foundation's media creation and publishing division.
Mission: To create and preserve for future generations documents in all media of great
vocal performances and compositions; to create and disseminate teaching materials
(including texts, master-classes and interviews) for use in the study of music by
professionals and amateurs the world over.

Collaborations with other foundations and grants.
Description: The Foundation is proud to collaborate with the Joy in Singing
Foundation, the New York Singing Teachers Association, and the
Festival International Albert-Roussel in France to promote performances of the songs
commissioned by and the singers awarded prizes by the Lehmann Foundation.
A grant was made to WFMT in 2006 to underwrite a two-hour radio documentary about
Lehmann in order to increase public awareness of Lehmann and the Foundation's
activities.

Awarded annually to an eminent art song composer, singer, or collaborative pianist.
Mission: To recognize, celebrate, and thereby encourage excellence among
master artists in the world of professional vocal composition and performance.

Recorded performances and reminiscences by Lehmann students and colleagues. Produced by the Foundation and released in partnership with commercial record labels.
Mission: To preserve Lehmann's teaching and artistic legacy through oral history
and performance documentation by luminaries in the opera and song worlds who
worked and studied with her.

Definitive and comprehensive online reference resource for scholars, music professionals, and music lovers for information about the life and career of Lotte Lehmann.
Mission: To preserve Lehmann's extraordinary artistic and educational legacy for future
by documenting her career, writings, performances, and work.

Hawaii Public Radio Program hosted by Gary Hickling since 1988.
Mission: To help ensure — through the weekly broadcast of a sampling of the finest
recordings of the major vocal artists of our time and of the past — that the art form
remains vital and appreciated.