The top prize in this year’s Thelonious Monk Institute competition – featuring vocals this year – has been awarded to Jazzmeia Horn from Dallas, a former student of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and whose playing credits include Junior Mance, Ellis Marsalis, Peter Bernstein, Frank Wess and Delfeayo Marsalis.

The prize is a $25,000 music scholarship and a recording contract with Concord.