The Classical Recording Foundation

TWELFTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY

MONDAY, NOVEMER 25, 2013 WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK CITY

The Classical Recording Foundation TWELFTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Monday, November 25, 2013, 7:30 PM

2013 FOUNDATION AWARDS

2013 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Hsin-Yun Huang & Sarah Rothenberg

2013 Composer of the Year Award Peter Schickele

2013 Young Artist Award Roman Rabinovich

2013 Foundation Award Sophie Shao

CONCERT AND PRESENTATION OF 2013 AWARD WINNERS

Opening Remarks Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Adam Abeshouse, Peter Schickele President of The Classical Recording Foundation John Schaefer, Host of WNYC’s Soundcheck and New Sounds Three Pieces from Ordre XVIII ...... Couperin I. Allemande II. Tic-Toc — INTERMISSION — III. Turbulant

Two Movements from Daphnis et Chloe ...... Ravel/Rabinovich Romances ...... Poul Ruders I. Pantomime I. Portal IV. Ballad II. Danse Générale II. Evensong V. Dirge III. Rhapsody VI. Duet Roman Rabinovich, piano Hsin-Yun Huang, viola Presentation of the Young Artist Award to Sarah Rothenberg, piano Roman Rabinovich Seymour Lipkin, Piano Faculty, Curtis Institute and The Juilliard School Presentation of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award to Hsin-Yun Huang & Sarah Rothenberg Holler, Hymns and Dirges: Samuel Rhodes, Chair, Viola Department, The Juilliard School Eight Folk Settings for Piano ...... Peter Schickele I. Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah Selections from Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major ...... J.S. Bach II. Oh, Death I. Prelude III. There Is A Happy Land IV. Sarabande IV. When I Can Read My Title Clear VI. Gigue

Little Suite For Susan ...... Peter Schickele Sophie Shao, cello I. Dulcimer Tune V. Hymn II. Blues Etude VI. Fanfare Presentation of the Foundation Award to III. Tango VII. Dusk Song Sophie Sao IV. Strut Richard Wilson, Lecturer and Composer-In-Residence for the American Symphony Orchestra “Goldbrick” Variations (S.14) For Piano, Two Hands ... P.D.Q. Bach Theme: Lento Not So Pathetico Closing Remarks Adam Abeshouse Laura Leon, piano

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ROMAN RABINOVICH THE YOUNG ARTIST AWARD

Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich is the The Young Artist Award went to underwrite Mr. Robinovich’s debut winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein recording Ballets Russes: Ravel/Rabinovich’s Daphnis et Chloe, International Piano Master Competition. Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, all arranged for Roman has been praised by critics for the piano solo. The disc was given a four-star review by BBC Music “vivacity and virtuosity” and “the Magazine (August 2013), who had this to say: “This is clearly a labour of impeccable clarity of execution” and has love. Rabinovich's stylish line drawings adorn the booklet, and the performed throughout the United States, enthusiasm of his joyful playing is infectious. There is plenty of dazzling Europe and Israel in such prestigious venues as Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, passagework to savor, with the ‘Dance Russe’ zinging along merrily. It is Wigmore Hall, Lucerne and Davos Festivals in Switzerland, Carnegie’s the broad palette of colours that is most impressive, especially in the more Zankel Hall, the Metropolitan and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums, poetic moments, such as the closing pages of ‘Romeo and Juliet before the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Glazunov Hall in St. parting.’” The disc was released in March 2013 by Orchid Classics. Petersburg, as well as Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Kauffman Center’s Merkin Hall in New York, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, Salle Cortot and Les Invalides in Paris and the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. In 2013/14 Mr. Rabinovich is scheduled to return to Wigmore Hall with a solo recital in December 2013, as part of an European tour which will also include recitals in Belgrade's Kolarac Hall, Scotland’s Musselburgh and Switzerland's Fribourg University. In spring 2014, Mr. Rabinovich will be touring with the Haifa Orchestra throughout the United States, performing as soloist in 28 cities. Mr. Rabinovich is teaching and playing at the newly founded arts center U-Hac, and appears with the U-Hac chamber players. Mr. Rabinovich has received financial support from Zfunot Tarbut, Ronen and Rich Foundations, as well as scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation from 1996 to 2004. Mr. Rabinovich is a Steinway & Sons artist. Mr. Robinovich, born in 1985 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, began his piano studies at the age of six with his mother, Mira. In 1994, he and his parents immigrated to Israel where he studied with Irena Vishnevitsky and later with professor Arieh Vardi at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin received his Master’s Degree at The Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald.

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PETER SCHICKELE THE COMPOSER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Composer, musician, author, satirist – Peter The Composer of the Year Award went to underwrite a new recording of Schickele is internationally recognized as one of Peter Schickele’s piano music, performed by Laura Leon. Titles on this the most versatile artists in the field of music. His disc were written specifically for Leon, a longtime collaborator and works, now well in excess of 100 for symphony performer of Schickele’s music. The disc will be released in February 2014 orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles, on the Musical Tapestries label. voice, movies and television, have given him “a leading role in the ever-more-prominent school of PERFORMING TONIGHT American composers who unselfconsciously blend all levels of American music.” (John Rockwell, Pianist Laura Leon is recognized for her The New York Times) insightful and sensitive performances of works by His commissions are numerous and varied, ranging from works for the a wide roster of American composers--including National Symphony and The Minnesota Opera to compositions for Peter Schickele, Eric Ewazen, Hugo Weisgall, distinguished instrumentalists and singers. Mr. Schickele’s SYMPHONY Leo Kraft, William Bolcom, Morton Gould, NO. 1 “Songlines” was premiered by the National Symphony under Steven Rosenhaus and Mark Isham. She Leonard Slatkin, and has since been played by the New York Philharmonic, performed at Tilles Center with violinist Colin The Cleveland Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and other Jacobsen honoring Morton Gould, the NY orchestras around the country. His work for narrator and orchestra, Lincoln Australian Consulate premiere of Rosenhaus’ at Ease, presents a sampling of Lincoln’s well-developed sense of humor; it Matilda Variations; the Center for Jewish was commissioned and premiered by the Louisville Orchestra under Jorge History’s Imagination and Catastrophe International Symposium featuring Mester. Schickele is the recipient of five Grammies. Weisgall’s Yiddish song cycle “The Golden Peacock” with soprano Emily Peter Schickele has arranged one of the musical segments for the new Duncan-Brown; the ASJM’s Music in Our Time with soprano Ena Disney animated feature film, “Fantasia 2000.” He also created the musical Freeman; and Heifer’s International’s Bee Day Celebration featuring score for the film version of Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic “Where Schickele, Copland, Ewazen, Martinu and an Isham premiere. the Wild Things Are,” issued on videocassette along with another Sendak Laura produced – and performed in – Peter Schickele’s 75th birthday classic “In the Night Kitchen” (Weston Woods), which Mr. Schickele concert at Steinway Hall, collaborating with Robert Sherman and an narrates. talented roster of musicians. She premiered Mr. Schickele’s PRESENTS II In his well-known other role as perpetrator of the oeuvre of the now at her 2008 NY recital American Images from the Piano: Neo-Classic to classic P.D.Q. Bach, Peter Schickele is acknowledged as one of the great Nature 1946-2008, and recorded his Michael Praetorius on her CD Preludes satirists of the 20th century. In testimony, Vanguard has released 11 albums to Passion. of the fabled genius’s works; 6 have been released by Telarc. Peter Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C. and Fargo, North Dakota. Schickele and his wife, the poet Susan Sindall, reside in New York City and have a second home in upstate New York.

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HSIN-YUN HUANG & SARAH ROTHENBERG She has performed over 80 world premieres and was a member of the New York Contemporary Music Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players for At age 17, violist Hsin-Yun Huang was the youngest- ten years. Her musical collaborators have included members of the ever winner of the gold medal at the Lionel Tertis Brentano, St. Lawrence, Emerson and Juilliard String Quartets as well as International Viola Competition. In 1993, she took the conductors Hans Graf and James Levine. top prize at the ARD Competition in Munich, winning A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, her teachers were Seymour at the same time Japan’s prestigious Bunkamura Lipkin, Mieczeslaw Horszowski and, at Juilliard, Herbert Stessin. She Orchard Hall award. She has appeared as a soloist with studied the music of Olivier Messiaen in Paris with Yvonne Loriod. In the Berlin Radio Symphony, the City of London 2000, she received the French medal of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Sinfonia; the Russian State Symphony, the Tokyo Letters. She lives in Houston and New York. Philharmonic, the Zagrab Soloists, the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra; ICE; Evergreen Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony of Taiwan amongst many others. THE SAMUEL SANDERS COLLABORATIVE ARTIST AWARD She has made appearances in numerous international chamber music festivals, among them the Marlboro Festival, the Spoleto Festivals, both in Hsin-Yun Huang & Sarah Rothenberg are the embodiment of the Samuel Italy and Charleston; the Stavanger Festival in Norway; the Rome Chamber Sanders award: two acclaimed artists joining forces for a milestone Music Festival; and the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the recording of the Ruders’ Romances, a piece written specifically for these Moritzburg Festival in Dresden, the Cartagena Festival in Colombia among artists and this recording. The Award went to partially underwrite the disc many others. She was also the violist in the world-renowned Borromeo Viola Viola, released November 2012 by Bridge Records. Quartet for six years. Ms. Huang is a dedicated teacher and a member of the faculties at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School. ABOUT THIS AWARD Sarah Rothenberg, A pianist of “heart, intellect and fabulous technical resources” (Fanfare) and “power The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award commemorates and introspection” (The New York Times), Sarah Samuel Sanders, a consummate chamber musician and beloved teacher. Rothenberg is active as performer, writer, concert Mr. Sanders was the recital partner of choice to many instrumentalists and curator and creator of unique multidisciplinary singers including Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert White, and performances linking music to literature and visual Paula Robison. art. She was the founding co-artistic director of the Mr. Sanders had always preferred the term collaborator to Bard Music Festival and is currently Artistic and accompanist, and so embodied the essence of chamber music in all of his General Director of Da Camera in Houston. performances. He helped each artist find his or her voice, always achieving The Wall Street Journal recently described her as "a prolific and the right balance between leading and following, anticipation and support. creative thinker." Sarah Rothenberg’s Music and the Literary Imagination His range of tonal color was inspiring, without demanding the spotlight and series inspired by the writings of Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Akhmatova, always in service to the music. The Foundation has established this award was presented by Great Performers at Lincoln Center for five consecutive in his honor and consequently it is reserved for chamber music of the seasons to sold-out houses and toured to Kennedy Center, Washington; highest caliber. Barbican Centre, London and across the U.S.

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SOPHIE SHAO

At the age of nineteen, cellist Sophie Shao Houston Symphony. At age thirteen she enrolled at the Curtis Institute of received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Music in Philadelphia, studying cello with David Soyer. After graduating Grant, and has since performed throughout the from the Curtis Institute, she continued her cello studies with Aldo Parisot United States, Europe, and Asia. Winner of top at Yale University, receiving a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale College prizes at the Rostropovich and Tchaikovsky and an M.M. from the Yale School of Music, where she was enrolled as a competitions, the New York Times has Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. She is on the faculty of Vassar College and applauded her “eloquent, powerful” the Bard Conservatory of Music and plays on a cello made by Honoré interpretations of repertoire ranging from Bach Derazey from 1860 once owned by Pablo Casals. and Beethoven to Crumb. This season, she makes her Washington recital debut at the Phillips Collection in addition to recitals at Middlebury College, THE FOUNDATION AWARD Bargemusic, Tuesday Musical Club (TX), and in other cities around the country. Ms. Shao also performs Beethoven’s A Major Sonata on ‘What The Foundation Award to Sophie Shao went to underwrite the production of Makes it Great’ on Lincoln Center’s “Great Performers” series; appears as a double-CD recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites. This landmark soloist with the Pacific Symphony, and leads a “Sophie Shao and Friends” recording was made while Ms. Shao was touring with this repertoire, tour with violinist Frank Huang and pianist Gilles Vonsattel; among many allowing for the capture of this timeless, iconic music at the height of the other appearances. artists’s understanding and performance of these musical materials. The Ms. Shao has collaborated with members of the Brentano, Emerson, recording will be released in early 2014. Guarneri, Juilliard and Orion quartets, and with artists such as Alessio Bax, Jonathan Biss, Jeremy Denk, Gil Shaham, David Shifrin, Nadja Salerno- Sonnenberg, and Andre Watts, among many others. She has also performed as a guest with the Formosa and Shanghai quartets and the Trio Cavatina, and is a frequent guest at many leading festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, the Bard Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Dedicated to the music of our time, Ms. Shao has recently premiered concertos by Richard Wilson and Howard Shore, and has recorded the music of Wilson, George Tsontakis, Anna Weesner and Barbara White. She has collaborated with Cho-Liang Lin in Tan Dun’s dynamic Ghost Opera in Indianapolis and last summer premiered a work by Lowell Liebermann for mezzo-soprano and ensemble at Chamber Music Northwest. A native of Houston, Texas, Sophie Shao began playing the cello at age six, and was a student of Shirley Trepel, former principal cellist of the

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THE FOUNDATION MISSION AND HISTORY

The Classical Recording Foundation (CRF) was formed to address the ability to document a performer’s life. Thus, the Foundation’s mission is to growing needs of classical musicians who have found it increasingly provide artists and composers with an opportunity to create and promote difficult to record their musical visions. It was founded by Adam classical recordings in a manner that captures ideal performances – Abeshouse, a Grammy-winning classical producer and engineer, whose performances that define our era. passion in life is recording classical music of all periods and working with The need for such a foundation is clear. Fewer and fewer classical artists to achieve their ultimate performance on CD. From the outset, Mr. artists have the opportunity to record their work in optimum conditions. Abeshouse believed that the economic climate for most classical recording Most recording companies, in response to the economic realities and artists was bleak, and therefore many great projects that deserved to be fundamental difficulties with distributing classical CDs, have reduced their preserved would not be recorded. Thus, it became the Foundation’s mission classical rosters. The Foundation believes the inherent value of the to support classical music recording philanthropically, following the same recording, both to the public and the artist, is not reflected by current market model as most live performance organizations. conditions, and thus must be supported through the Foundation’s efforts. The concept for the Classical Recording Foundation was formally Since CRF’s inception, it has released numerous single- and multi-CD launched in 2001 when Mr. Abeshouse was asked to produce a CD for the sets to critical acclaim (see pages 16-21). It has presented eleven annual soprano Benita Valente and the Juilliard String Quartet. Ms. Valente was a award ceremonies at Carnegie Hall. In addition, CRF has begun to help in year away from retiring, and she wanted to record several wonderful works the restoration of the landmark live recordings from the archives of the by Ginastera, Harbison, and Wernick, which were written specifically for Library of Congress by supporting Bridge Records in that effort. 2006 her and the Juilliard Quartet. Fortunately, the recording sessions happened, marked the first year of a Library of Congress collaboration with a and in 2007, the Classical Recording Foundation supplied the funds for remarkable disc featuring Samuel Barber and Leontyne Price, which editing and mastering these works, and arranged for distribution. Because it garnered a Billboard “Top 10 of the Year” distinction. was quite difficult to raise the funds necessary to make those three days of CRF received two grants from the Copland Fund for ongoing projects recording possible, it became obvious to Mr. Abeshouse that a philanthropic and one grant from the NEA to help support Bridge Records’ George organization whose primary goal was to support recordings was critical if Crumb Film/DVD. CRF was very pleased to be part of this historic many more memorable recordings were to be produced. document of this important composer’s life. A number of people were involved in taking this original Foundation CRF’s award winners continue to thrive. Susanna Phillips, CRF 2011 goal to fruition, and are responsible for the success it has enjoyed to date. Young Artist of the Year, is singing the starring role of Fiordiligi in the Samuel Sanders was committed early on to the concept and suggested that Metropolitan Opera’s productions of Così Fan Tutte, and will be featured in Susan Rose be invited to nurture the idea. Elizabeth Edersheim also saw the Met’s Live in HD of that production in April 2014. the power and potential of developing the idea and has worked tirelessly to The Claremont Trio, 2004 Samuel Sanders award-winners, recently make it a reality. Years of close friendship with Rob Jones have helped recorded the Beethoven Triple Concerto at Skywalker Studios with the San shape the Foundation and its mission. The Foundation is also grateful for Francisco Ballet Orchestra. This exciting disc was released in December the support, guidance, and enthusiasm of Dr. Julius Jacobson and Susan 2012 on Bridge Records. Rothwell. Producer Adam Abeshouse won an Echo Award for music Production, From the Foundation’s early success, it was clear that for classical and received a Palm D’Or nomination for the DVD production of “The artists, the benefits of recording go beyond the physical product. Recording Little Mermaid” featuring the music of Lera Auerbach performed by the sessions provide artists with the time to reflect, analyze, and refine their San Francisco Ballet, Martin West, conducting. performance and interpretation, and are therefore an important vehicle for artistic growth. The input of a trusted producer also adds benefit to this process. Another important byproduct of these recording sessions is the (continued)

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THE FOUNDATION MISSION AND HISTORY (continued)

In 2012, CRF supported the continuing series of 2003 Composer of the Year George Crumb -- recordings lovingly produced by David Starobin, engineered by Adam Abeshouse, to be released on Bridge Records. In the last 10 years, George Crumb has used American themes, creating a series of folk songs settings called “American Songbooks,” most recently, “Voices from the Heartland.” The piece featured soprano Ann Crumb, the composer's daughter, and Grammy-nominee baritone Patrick Mason along with pianist Marcantonio Barone and percussionists William Kerrigan, David Nelson, Brenda Weckerly and Greg Giannascoli. James Freeman conducted. These achievements illustrate CRF’s commitment to its artists to provide the best possible recording environment to help them achieve the best possible results, wonderful performances that truly reflect the artists’ vision of the works recorded. Despite economic pressures, CRF has held true to this mission and will continue to do so. Mission Statement The Foundation wishes to thank you for attending its Twelfth Annual To provide great performing artists and composers with an Awards Ceremony as it honors not only this year’s award recipients, but opportunity to record, release, and promote new classical also those who have helped to guide it and ensure its future success. recordings in a manner that captures ideal performances that define our era, by providing established artists with awards and new artists with grants.

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THE FOUNDATION CATALOGUE

2002 Awardees Composer of the Year Award Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy, David Krakauer and Trio Solisti, The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Arabesque Records/Naxos The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Beethoven Complete Piano Trios, Arabesque Records, Volume 1, Volume 2 The Orion String Quartet, Prokofiev String Quartets, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Gilbert Kalish and Joel Krosnick, Brahms Complete Cello Sonatas, Arabesque Records 2005 Awardees

The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Bach Complete Brandenburg Concerti, The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Delos International Giora Schmidt and Rohan De Silva ,Works for Violin and Piano, Endeavour Classics 2003 Awardees The Composer of the Year Award The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Stephen Jaffe, Homage to the Breath, Bridge Records Andres Diaz and Judith Gordon, Martinu, Lutoslawski and Rachmaninov, Arabesque Records The Young Artist Award Inon Barnatan, Music of Schubert, Bridge Records Composer of the Year Award George Crumb, Complete Crumb Edition Volume 7, Bridge Records The Juilliard String Quartet Companion disc to Harvard University Press’ Anne-Marie McDermott, Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. II, Exploration of Beethoven’s String Quartets Arabesque Records Benjamin Verdery, Start Now, Mushkatweek Records The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Prokofiev Complete Chamber Music, Arabesque Records 2006 Awardees

2004 Awardees The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Zuill Bailey and Simone Dinnerstein, Complete Beethoven Works for Cello The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award and Piano, Vol. 1,Delos International The Jupiter Trio, Beethoven and Shostakovich Trios, Bridge Records The Composer of the Year Award The Harmonie Ensemble, Works by Aaron Copland, Bridge Records Richard Wernick, The Music of Richard Wernick, Bridge Records

The Young Artist Award The Claremont Trio, Mendelssohn Trios, Arabesque Records (Continued on next page)

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THE FOUNDATION CATALOGUE (continued)

2006 Awardees (continued) Anne-Marie McDermott, George Gershwin: Complete Music for Piano & The Young Artist Award Orchestra, Bridge Records The Daedalus Quartet, Sibelius, Stravinsky, and Ravel, Bridge Records 2009 Awardees Michael Harrison, REVELATION, Cantaloupe Music Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award 2007 Awardees Donald Berman and Susan Narucki, The Light That Is Felt: Songs of Charles Ives, New World Records The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Zuill Bailey and Simone Dinnerstein, Complete Beethoven Works for Cello Composer of the Year Award and Piano (complete set), Telarc Fred Lerdahl, The Music of Fred Lerdahl Volume 2, Bridge Records

The Composer of the Year Award Young Artist Award Justin Dello Joio, Justin Dello Joio, Bridge Records Soyeon Lee, Re!nvented, E1 Entertainment

The Young Artist Award Dragonetti’s New Academy, Dragonetti's New Academy, DNA Vassily Primakov, Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Constant Records Special Presentation Donald Berman, Artistic Director Daedauls Quartet, Haydn Quartets, Bridge Records Americans in Rome: Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Bridge Records 2010 Awardees

Jorge Liderman Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Jorge Liderman: Barcelonazo (Music for Orchestra), Bridge Records Maria Bachmann and Jon Klibonoff, Philip Glass: Violin Sonata, Orange Mountain Music 2008 Awardees Composer of the Year Award Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Scott Wheeler, Wasting the Night, Naxos Paula Robison, Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land, Picker Gallery Young Artist Award Composer of the Year Award Natasha Paremski, Paul Chihara, Paul Chihara, Bridge Records Prokofiev Sonata No 7, New Work by Gabriel Kahane, Brahms Sonata Op. 2 Young Artist Award Mikhail Simonyan, Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano Delos International (Continued on next page)

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THE FOUNDATION CATALOGUE (continued)

2010 Awardees (continued) 2013 Awardees

Young Artist Award Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Orion Weiss, Hsin-Yun Huang & Sarah Rothenberg Dvorak Humoresques, Prokofiev Fugitive Visions, Barktok Bagatelles Op. 6 Viola Viola, Bridge Records Bridge Records Composer of the Year Award 2011 Awardees Peter Schickele Title TBD, Musical Tapestries Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Young Artist Award The Complete Schubert Trios, Bridge Records Roman Rabinovich Ballets Russes, Orchid Classics Composer of the Year Award Robert Paterson, The Book of Goddesses, American Modern Recordings Sophie Shao J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites (Double-CD Set) Composer of the Year Award Arlene Sierra, Music of Arlene Sierra, Vol. 1, Bridge Records

Young Artist Award Susanna Phillips, Paysages: French Songs by Debussy, Messiaen & Fauré To purchase the above recordings please Bridge Records visit our partner record labels on the web:

2012 Awardees www.Allegro-Music.com www.E1Distribution.com www.Amazon.com www.Naxos.com Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award www.ArabesqueRecords.com www.NewWorldRecords.org Barbara Govatos and Marcantonio Barone www.BenjaminVerdery.com www.OrangeMountainMusic.com Complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin & Piano www.BridgeRecords.com www.OrchidClassics.com Bridge Records www.CantaloupeMusic.com www.OslMusic.org www.CDBaby.com www.Telarc.com Composer of the Year Award www.DelosMus.com Philip Lasser, Colors of Feelings, Delos International

Young Artist Award, Bridget Kibbey, Music Box

Gerald Ranck The Well-Tempered Klavier, Cantilena Records

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THE FOUNDATION BOARD

Adam Abeshouse, President Robert W. Jones Dr. Julius H. Jacobson II, MD Neil Yelsey Dimitri Sogoloff

SPECIAL THANKS

Friends and Advisors Christopher Beach David Bury Jeffery Cotton and wiredmusician.net Mario Davidovksy Lawrence Dutton Edward Houser Christina Jensen Susan Rose Thomas Shepard

Thanks to Board Members Ed Court Silas Brown Paul Cox Dew Graphics Andy Ryder David and Becky Starobin Scott Starrett Laura Emert, Whitmore Group

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