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.
Cleveland Orchestra promotes Vinay Parameswaran to associate conductor
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Vinay Parameswaran
The Cleveland Orchestra has elevated Vinay Parameswaran to the position of associate conductor and has extended his contracts for other roles at the institution.
The orchestra said in a news release that the agreement continues Parameswaran s tenure through the 2021-22 season.
In addition to the new associate conductor title, Parameswaran still will hold the Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Assistant Conductor Endowed Chair with the orchestra. He will continue in his role as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, also through the 2021-22 season.