François López-Ferrer, Resident Conductor of the Académie of the Opéra de Paris joins a distinguished list of young conductors supported and promoted by the 24-year-old organization. April 12, 2024 Evanston, IL – The Solti Foundation U.S. Board Chair Penny Van Horn and Artistic and Awards Committee Chair Elizabeth Buccheri today […]
May 31, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GRANT COMMUNICATIONS Massachusetts-New York Evanston, IL – Providing assistance to young conductors in the early stages of their careers and thereby helping to continue the art form, The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected a record 22 young conductors to receive a 2023 Career […]
Keitaro Harada, Music & Artistic Director, Savannah Philharmonic, and Associate Conductor, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, announced by The Solti Foundation U.S. as 2023 recipient of The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award April 24, 2023 The Solti Foundation U.S. Board Chair Penny Van Horn and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today […]
By Mary Carole McCauley Baltimore Sun Jul 21, 2022 at 6:00 am Jonathon Heyward, the 29-year-old classical music phenom whose skill on the conductor’s podium has generated international headlines, was named Thursday as the next music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. When Heyward begins his five-year contract in the […]
Selected musicians represent the importance of diversity, community and cultural impact. Evanston, IL – The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected 18 young conductors to be recipients of 2022 Career Assistance Awards. Announced today by Board Chair Penny Van Horn and Elizabeth Buccheri. The 2022 recipients of The Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award have experience […]
Earl E. Lee, Associate Conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra, announced by The Solti Foundation U.S. as 2022 recipient of The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award April 20, 2022 The Solti Foundation U.S. today revealed the 2022 recipient of the organization’s major grant, The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Announced by […]
Evanston, IL – 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 […]
The following tribute was written and shared by Frank Villella, board member of the Solti Foundation U.S. and Director, Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Lady Valerie Solti passed away on March 31, 2021, at home in London. She was eighty-three. Born in Leeds, England on August 19, […]
Evanston, IL – The Solti Foundation U.S. revealed today the twelfth recipient of the organization’s major grant, The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Given annually to a single promising American conductor 38 years of age or younger, The Sir Georg Solti Fellow, as it is also called, provides career guidance, […]
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