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Solti Foundation US announces 2021 Career Assistance Awards 12/05/2021
The American Solti Foundation announced the young American conductors who have been selected as 2021 recipients of The Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award. They are, Assistance Award (in alphabetical order) are conductors:
Nathaniel Efthimiou, founding Music Director of Orchestra Contempo, Assistant Conductor, Boston Civic Symphony, Assistant Director of Music at Boston’s historic Park Street Church and acting Assistant Conductor, Rhode Island Philharmonic;
Kevin Fitzgerald, Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra, he is also the founder of the Michigan-based contemporary music ensemble ÆPEX Contemporary Performance;
Solti Foundation U.S. Board Chair Penny Van Horn and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today announced remotely from their respective homes the young American conductors who have been selected as 2021 recipients of The Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award. The 2020-21 season has been a time of joy and sadness. Our Foundation has lost a shining light, Lady Valerie Solti, who passed away earlier this season. Her committment to her late husband s legacy and joy in helping up and coming musicians in the conducting world made our Foundation a reality. We celebrate her and Sir Georg s lives as we announce fifteen Solti Career Assistance Awards, stated Ms. Van Horn.
Diversity and familiarity best describe the 2021-22 Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra season, which will kick off in September with a full orchestra and audience.
Artistic advisor/conductor Bramwell Tovey described planning the season – the philharmonic s full return after the COVID-19 pandemic first shuttered, then minimized in-person shows – as a complex endeavor, and he worked to include the “familiar, intriguing and unusual.”
“We always look at what has and hasn’t been done in a while, but, after a major event, the familiarity of masterpieces is something people are anxious to hear,” he noted, adding he tried to encapsulate new and classic into each performance.
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