“Fifteen young American conductors will continue their success” with Solti Foundation Career Assistance Prizes, reads an unsigned article in Monday’s (5/17) Violin Channel. Recipients include “Nathaniel Efthimiou … Assistant Conductor of the Boston Civic Symphony … and the acting Assistant Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic; Kevin Fitzgerald … Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra…. Taichi Fukumura… director of orchestras for the Merit School of Music, and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Northwestern Medical Orchestra; Lina Gonzalez-Granados … Conducting Fellow with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony…. Keitaro Harada … Artistic Director of the Savannah Philharmonic and Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony; Roger Kalia … Music Director of the Evansville Philharmonic, Symphony NH, Orchestra Santa Monica, and the Lake George Music Festival; Jonathon Heyward, the Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie; Earl Lee, the Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lee Mills, the Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony; Vinay Parameswaran … Associate Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra…. Michael Repper, the Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony and Northern Neck Orchestra of Virginia; and … Lidiya Yankovskaya, the Music Director of the Chicago Opera Theater … Other recipients include the international guest conductors Stefano Sarzani, Roberto Kalb, and Kensho Watanabe.”
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