Tag: Prizes and Awards
The Score | Career High
The Score | Star Maestro
The Score | Classical Grammy Awards: Bates, Blanchard, Fuchs, Kernis, Shostakovich
Volunteers: Gold Book Awards of Excellence announced
Volunteer associations at six orchestras have won a 2019 Gold Book Award of Excellence from the Volunteer Council of the League of American Orchestras—and now you can check them out here. Every year, volunteers at orchestras across the U.S. and Canada create and execute projects that explore topics including audience development, community engagement, fundraising, education, and more, and then submit their projects to the League’s Volunteer Council for the Gold Book Online competition. Twenty volunteer associations entered projects to this year’s competition, and the Volunteer Council selected six for the Gold Book Award of Excellence. This year’s winning projects come from the Symphony Guild of Charlotte, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra; West Suburban Friends of Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago Sinfonietta; Women’s Symphony League of Tyler, East Texas Symphony Orchestra; Houston Symphony League, Houston Symphony; Kansas City Symphony League, Kansas City Symphony; Waco Symphony Council, Waco Symphony Orchestra. The awards will be presented at the League’s 74th National Conference, June 3-5, 2019 in Nashville, TN. Click here to learn more about the Gold Book and the Volunteer Council.
Posted February 15, 2019
The Score | Musical America’s 2019 Award Winners
Dallas Symphony principal oboe recognized for volunteer efforts in community
Seven years ago, Erin Hannigan, principal oboe in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, “organized the first Concert for Kindness” to raise money for Dallas Animal Services, a no-kill animal shelter, writes Kate Peebles in Friday’s (7/27) D magazine (Dallas). The annual concert, held in March, is “performed by volunteer[s] … including performers from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Opera, and the Avant Chamber Ballet…. In June, Hannigan received the 2018 Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service [from the League of American Orchestras], given to just five orchestra musicians across the country who use their musical talents to improve their communities…. Over the past five years, Concert for Kindness has raised more than $200,000 for Operation Kindness, allowing the shelter to raise adoption rates and provide spots for more animals…. The concerts have also helped cover the cost of medicine that the shelter pays to treat its animals, an expense of over $120,000 every year…. Hannigan’s … aims go beyond the animals. ‘I want [people] to see the Dallas Symphony as a group of community members,’ Hannigan says. ‘We’re here because of the Dallas Symphony job, but we are entrenched in the community and it’s a wonderful thing.’ ” Learn more about the League’s Ford Musician Awards for Excellence in Community Service here.
Posted August 1, 2018