“The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts, a 10-year program that is now in its seventh year, will award fellowships to seven young artists,” writes Allan Kozinn in Monday’s (4/7) New York Times. The fellowships “are for ‘young artists of exceptional promise,’ and include grants of $50,000 a year for up to two years. The fund maintains partnerships with several schools and arts organizations … which recommend potential recipients of the fellowships.” The three musicians winning 2014 fellowships are Ryan Speedo Green, “a bass-baritone who was raised in southeastern Virginia and who will join the roster of the Vienna State Opera after completing his studies at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program this spring. Francesca dePasquale, a violinist from a family of string players (her mother is a cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra; her father was that ensemble’s concertmaster for many years), who is currently Itzhak Perlman’s teaching assistant at the Juilliard School, where she is completing her master’s degree. Tessa Lark, a violinist from Kentucky who is currently based in Boston, who was the winner of the both the Naumburg International Violin Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2012.”
Posted April 10, 2014
