Posted by : trraju on Oct 02, 2003 - 09:03 AM General

Second Annual The McGraw-Hill Companies' Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach Presented to Juilliard alumna flutist Tanya Dusevic Witek at Opening Concert of The McGraw-Hill Companies' 2003/2004 Young Artists Showcase Series.


New York, N.Y., October 1, 2003 — Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies, will present Juilliard alumna Tanya Dusevic Witek with the corporation's Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach on October 1st. The award will be presented at the opening concert of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase 2003/2004 season.

The McGraw-Hill Companies created this award to enhance its involvement in music education, and to acknowledge Robert Sherman for his longstanding commitment to The McGraw-Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase. The award, now in its second year, recognizes a Juilliard alumnus or alumna for leadership in providing enrichment to broad audiences through music education programs and for outstanding musicianship. The winner is selected upon recommendation by The Juilliard School and Robert Sherman, and receives a $10,000 grant to support music education projects and community work. Juilliard alumnus and violinist David Wallace was the 2002 recipient.

Flutist, Tanya Dusevic Witek, winner of this year's award has performed in prestigious venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and England's St. John's-Smith Square and The Purcell Room. She recently was chosen as a "Face of the Future" by the Canadian magazine Maclean's and has performed in New York, Japan, England, Poland, France, and Australia. Her chamber music endeavors have led to performances with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the Oxford String Quartet, and collaborations with artists such as Mariko Anraku and the late Samuel Sanders. In addition, Ms. Witek has appeared as concerto soloist with groups such as the Juilliard Orchestra and New York Symphonic Ensemble and was the resident flutist at the Marlboro Music Festival in both 1996 and 1997.

This award presentation launches the 2003-2004 season of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase. Since its debut, the program has introduced more than 2,000 gifted musicians to the on-air audience. The Young Artists Showcase, hosted by Robert Sherman, broadcasts each Wednesday evening at 9:05 p.m. on 96.3 FM WQXR, and features performances by some of today's most promising young musicians.

Juilliard student pianists Konstantin Soukhovetski and Orion Weiss, winners of this year's Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition at Juilliard, will open The McGraw-Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase series in a concert that is free to the public. The program includes both solo and four-hand repertoire and features Nicolai Medtner's Canzona Matinata and Sonata Tragica, from Zabïtïye motivï (Forgotten Melodies), Op. 39 (performed by Mr. Soukovetski); Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, No. 1 (performed by Mr. Weiss); and Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche, Op. 165b (performed by both Messrs. Soukovetski and Weiss)

About The Julliard School
Since its opening in October 1905, as the Institute of Musical Art, The Julliard School has established this country's standard for education in the arts. Its Alumni are known all over the world as outstanding artists; its faculty among the most knowledgeable and respected artists teachers in classical music, dance, drama and now jazz. As it looks toward its centennial in 2005, Julliard continues to represent the finest in performing arts education, growing with and responding to the needs of a thriving cultural community in the U.S. and abroad, its student body drawn from 43 states and 46 foreign countries.

About McGraw-Hill
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About Tanya Dusevic Witek
Tanya Dusevic Witek has received The National Arts Club's Tilden Prize (1996, Jean-Pierre Rampal, jury chairman), a Fulbright Grant (1995), 2nd prize in the National Flute Association's Young Artists' Competition (1994), a Sony ES Award for Excellence (1994), and the Juilliard Concerto Competition (1993). She has also received recognition in her native country, with numerous grants from the Canada Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Also active as an educator, Ms. Witek is a teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic School Partnership Program and Lincoln Center Institute. She is currently the resident teaching artist at PS 199 in Manhattan and PS 19 in Queens. While at Juilliard, Ms. Witek participated in the inaugural year of the Morse Fellowship Program, which enables conservatory students to bring music into New York City public school classrooms. She has led many professional development workshops for classroom and music teachers from across the country, and has provided seminars and consultation for the Tanglewood Music Festival, American Symphony Orchestra League, Cooperstown Music Festival, The Juilliard School, and Music From the Inside Out, an upcoming PBS documentary.

Ms. Witek was educated at The University of Calgary (Bachelor of Music), The Banff Center and The Juilliard School (Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts). Her teachers and coaches have included Philippa Fullerton, Carol Wincenc and Samuel Baron.

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