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THE SOLTI FOUNDATION U.S.

NEWSLETTER | 2022 SUMMER EDITION

WELCOME | SOLTI NIGHT 2022

SOLTI FOUNDATION AWARDEES

IN THE NEWS | FROM THE ARCHIVES

SPONSORS AND DONORS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Penny Van Horn,

Chair

Kay Mabie,

Vice Chair

Nicholas Martin,

Secretary

Gretchen Zook,

Treasurer

R. John Aalbregste

Elizabeth Buccheri

Pamela Bullock

Mary Jane Drews

Mark George

Martha Gilmer

William R. Jentes

Blake-Anthony Johnson

Donna L. Kendall

David McNeel

Michelle Miller Burns

Zarin Mehta

Stephen Potter

Gabrielle Solti

Frank Villella

Peter Wiggins

Duain Wolfe

Owen Youngman

Mitzi Freidheim,

Director Emeritus

Dietrich M. Gross,

Director Emeritus

Thomas B. McNeill,

Director Emeritus

In Memoriam

Richard Gray,

Founding Director

Valerie Solti,

Honorary Chair

ARTISTIC & AWARDS

COMMITTEE

Elizabeth Buccheri, Chair

Pamela Bullock

Duain Wolfe

Peter Wiggins

ADMINISTRATOR

Fiona Queen

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Dear Friends,

The Foundation’s mission since day one has been to identify, support, and

promote emerging talent. We are particularly proud, that over the past several

years, our awardees found new and creative ways to perform on concert and

operatic stages throughout the country and around the world. Importantly,

their shared outlook has been community-oriented with participation in music

education, introduction to new repertoire, and support of industry organizations.

It is inspiring that the Solti Foundation U.S. has experienced a record number of

applicants each year. Aside from their dedication, these young conductors have

demonstrated a shared passion for their craft and a commitment to the growth

and appreciation of classical music through creative programing, innovative

projects, and imaginative use of social media.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic silenced all live music performances for the

foreseeable future. Nevertheless, the Foundation not only continued, but

enhanced its grants program to provide support to young American conductors.

As a result of that effort, and due to the generosity of you our sponsors and

donors, we succeed. Emerging 'like a phoenix'—we've renewed our resolve in

support of these exceptional artists.

Please join us on October 19 for a special evening of music and celebration

honoring our 2022 Awardees.

Penny Van Horn

Board Chair

The Solti Foundation U.S.

SOLTI NIGHT OCTOBER 2022

Nancy Berman

Elizabeth Buccheri

Mary Jane Drews

Kay Mabie

Nicholas Martin

David McNeel

Fiona Queen

Penny Van Horn

Frank Villella

Gretchen Zook

"Only the phoenix rises

and does not descend.

And everything changes.

And nothing is truly lost.”

– Neil Gaiman

THE SIR GEORG SOLTI CONDUCTING AWARD

Earl Lee is currently Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was recently named the next

Music Director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and will begin his term in September 2022. Lee recently

concluded his position as the Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, where he led various concerts and

its programming. He also served as the Resident Conductor of the Toronto Symphony from 2015 to 2018.

Appearances during the 2021/22 season included leading the San Francisco Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and

Ann Arbor Symphony in subscription; the New York Philharmonic in its annual Lunar New Year Gala; debuts with the

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, and with the

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam as a participant in the Ammodo masterclasses led by Fabio Luisi. This

coming season includes a return to the San Francisco Symphony and his Boston Symphony subscription debut.

In all of his professional activities, Earl seeks ways to connect with fellow musicians and audiences on a personal

level. His concerts to date in Canada, the U.S., China and South Korea have often been accompanied by outreach

events beyond the concert hall in the community at large. He has taken great pleasure in mentoring young

musicians as former Artistic Director and Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, and as Music

Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra and is a regular guest conductor with the orchestras of North

America’s top music schools such as Manhattan School of Music and the New England, San Francisco, and Royal

Conservatories.

As a cellist, Earl has performed at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Caramoor

Rising Stars, and Ravinia’s Steans Institute and has toured as a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO),

with Musicians from Marlboro, with and Gary Burton & Chick Corea as a guest member of the Harlem String Quartet.

Earl has degrees in cello from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School and in conducting from

Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory. He was the recipient of the 50th Anniversary Heinz

Unger Award from the Ontario Arts Council in 2018, of a Solti Foundation U.S. Career assistance Award in 2021 and

has been awarded a Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Scholarship by Kurt Masur and the Ansbacher Fellowship by the

American Austrian Foundation and members of the Vienna Philharmonic.

The largest grant currently given to American conductors in the formative years of their careers, the prestigious award is given

annually to a single promising conductor 38 years of age or younger. Past recipients include Gemma New, Aram Demirjian, Yaniv

Dinur, Roderick Cox, Christopher Allen, Karina Canellakis, Vladimir Kulenovic, Cristian Macelaru, James Feddeck, Case Scaglione, Eric

Nielsen, and Anthony Barrese.

Earl Lee

Recipient of the $30,000

Top Prize in 2022

Alphabetical order, photos in horizontal rows, left to right:

TIFFANY CHANG, Residency (2019), Dallas Opera Hart Institute

for Women Conductors.

MAURICE COHN, Assistant Conductor, Dallas Symphony

Orchestra.

NATHANIEL EFTHIMIOU, Assistant Conductor, Boston Civic

Symphony; Cover Conductor, Rhode Island Philharmonic.

KEVIN FITZGERALD, Newly-appointed Associate Conductor,

Jacksonville Symphony.

TAICHI FUKUMURA, Director of Orchestras, Merit School of

Music; Cover Conductor, Chicago Philharmonic.

CHELSEA GALLO, Assistant Conductor of the Louisiana

Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Loyola Symphony

Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor of Opera Orlando.

KEITARO HARADA, Music and Artistic Director of the Savannah

Philharmonic; Associate Conductor, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

ROBERT S. KAHN, Cover Conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra

(2021-22 season); Assistant to Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the

Rotterdam Philharmonic on their European Tour.

FARKHAD KHUDYEV, Music Director, University of Texas

Symphony Orchestra; Music Director, Orchestral Institute

(Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts, Carmel, CA).

LOUIS LOHRASEB, Assistant Conductor, Los Angeles Opera.

FRANÇOIS LÓPEZ-FERRER, Associate Conductor, Cincinnati

Symphony; 2021-22 Dudamel Conducting Fellow.

BENJAMIN MANIS, Resident Conductor, Houston Grand Opera;

Associate Conductor, Utah Symphony.

STEPHEN MULLIGAN, Former Associate Conductor, Atlanta

Symphony Orchestra; 2018-19 Dudamel Conducting Fellow.

TRISTAN RAIS-SHERMAN, Conducting Fellow, The Philadelphia

Orchestra (2022-23 season).

MICHAEL REPPER, Music Director, Ashland Symphony

Orchestra, Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Northern Neck

Orchestra of Virginia; Principal Conductor, Sinfonía por el Perú.

MATTHEW STRAW, Evan Whallon Conducting Fellow, Eastman

School of Music; Assistant Conductor, Eastman School

Symphony Orchestra.

WILLIAM GARFIELD WALKER, Chief Conductor and founder,

Nova Orchester Wien(NOW!)

DEAN WHITESIDE, Former New World Symphony Conducting

Fellow; Founder and director, Nashville Sinfonietta; Winner,

2018 American Prize in Conducting.

CAREER ASSISTANCE AWARDS

The Solti Foundation U.S. recognizes 18 talented young

conductors with Career Assistance Awards in 2022

For the past several decades, Sir Georg Solti has reigned as the all-time Grammy champ with thirty-one awards from

the Recording Academy to his credit, more than any other recording artist. He received his first statuette in May 1963,

for Best Opera Recording for Verdi’s Aida that featured Leontyne Price in the title role and the Rome Opera House

Orchestra and Chorus.

In March 1972, Sir Georg took home his first awards for recordings

with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as the ensemble’s music

director: Best Classical Performance–Orchestra for Mahler’s Seventh

Symphony, and Album of the Year–Classical with producer David

Harvey and Best Choral Performance with Norbert Balatsch and

Helmut Froschauer (directors of the Chorus of the Vienna State Opera,

Singverein Chorus, and the Vienna Boys Choir) for Mahler’s Eighth

Symphony. Over the next twenty-five years, recordings featuring Solti

and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus received dozens of

nominations and several wins in multiple categories.

In September 1995, Solti—then the CSO’s music director laureate—

was back on the podium to lead and record Wagner’s epic Die

Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The subsequent recording was released in

early 1997 and received the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

in February 1998. Awarded to Solti posthumously, this was his thirty-

first statuette and his twenty-fourth award for a recording with the

Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

In addition to his wins in competitive categories, Sir Georg Solti and producer John Culshaw received the Academy’s first

Trustees Award in 1967 for the first studio recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Sir Georg also received the Academy’s 1995 Lifetime Achievement Award.

At the moment, Beyoncé and Quincy Jones tie for the number two slot with twenty-eight awards each. So, be sure

to keep an eye on Beyoncé . . . her seventh studio album—Renaissance—was recently released and will be eligible in

multiple categories for the upcoming sixty-fifth Grammy awards in February 2023.

Frank Villella is director of the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and a board member of the Solti

Foundation U.S. Please visit soltifoundation.us for more information.

Sir Georg Solti: Grammy Champ

SOLTI AWARDEES IN THE NEWS

Jonathon Heyward has been named BSO music director, replacing Marin Alsop and

becoming the only Black conductor to helm a major U.S. symphony orchestra

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has announced the appointment of

29-year-old conductor Jonathon Heyward as Music Director, the holder of the

Harvey M. and Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair. He will be the BSO’s 13th music director.

Heyward’s five-year contract begins in the 2023-24 season. He will serve as Music

Director Designate for the upcoming 2022-23 season and lead two weeks of

performances in May 2023.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

“I think we are poised for great things at this moment,” said Brian Prechtl, chairman of the Baltimore Symphony

Orchestra Players Committee and a member of the search committee seeking a successor for former music director

Marin Alsop. “The hiring of Jonathon Heyward is going to be a marquee moment for The Baltimore Symphony

Orchestra.” Read the full story on our website at soltifoundation .us

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LAEH GRANT - In honor of Kay Mabie

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Their generous support provided all of the grant opportunities offered in 2022.

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