Imagine you are a young singer, hoping for a career in opera and you ve worked hard enough, been good enough and had enough stamina to reach the finalist stage of a competition where you ll be performing before a theater jammed with opera lovers.
But now instead of facing a live audience at your big moment, you are instead greeted with facsimiles of people: 2D cardboard cutouts filling the seats as you sing two arias in the course of the evening before a panel of judges. The rewards are still the same recognition, prize money, possible accepted into a respected training program but the ambience, well it ll be a bit different.
Foundation names 2021 Young Arts winners
Updated 2/1/2021 11:35 AM
The National YoungArts Foundation recently announced its 2021 YoungArts Winners.
YoungArts winners are the nation s most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts.
Selected from a competitive pool of applications and representing artists from across the country, YoungArts winners gain access to one of the most comprehensive programs for emerging artists in the United States, offering financial, professional and artistic development opportunities over the course of their careers.
Winners are chosen for their caliber of artistic achievement by esteemed discipline-specific panels of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process and are awarded in three categories: Finalist, Honorable Mention and Merit.
Amherst teen wins recognition in national arts competition
Arden Lloyd of Amherst is among the winners of a national competition that recognizes promising young artists. ISABELLA DELLOLIO
Arden Lloyd peforming with a jazz combo at Amherst Regional High School in 2019. She has won recognition as a vocalist and singer-songwriter in a national competition for young artists. PHOTO COURTESY ARDEN LLOYD
Arden Lloyd of Amherst, who plays tumpet, piano and guitar, is among the winners of a national contest that recognizes young artists. ISABELLA DELLOLIO
Published: 1/31/2021 12:36:34 PM
AMHERST Arden Lloyd first starting taking piano lessons when she was 8 at the behest of her parents. It wasn’t something she particularly objected to, she says, but on the other hand, “I didn’t take it too seriously.”
Updated on January 25, 2021 at 9:59 am
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142 artists will be in the spotlight, including at least three dozen Californians
Jazz, dance, singing, film, visual arts, more
Discovering your creative fire early on in life can be a true gift.
For finding that you possess the bright sun of pure inspiration inside, and you can access its power to create a thousand different wonderful things, from thrilling dance performances to memorable music pieces, is a life-changing moment.
Artists who ve discovered their inner light, and ability to create, are regularly spotlighted in many wonderful ways on our stages, in our galleries, and via our screens.
Amherst Regional High School vocalist wins cash prize from National YoungArts Foundation
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
Amherst Regional High School vocalist Arden Lloyd performing That s All with accompaniment by Alex Harvey-Arnold, Antonio Polino and Aengus Cox, during the Dec. 12, 2019 State of the Town of Amherst meeting (Jim Russell photo)
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AMHERST – Amherst-Pelham Regional High School student Arden Lloyd was recognized for years of practicing her singing skills with a cash prize from National YoungArts Foundation, and the organization announced Friday she is among 60 budding artists nationwide nominated for the 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts.
National YoungArts Foundation said this is “one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who exemplify artistic and academic excellence.”