2008 Classical Recording Foundation Award Winners

Paul Chihara
CRF Composer of the Year Award

Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Classical Recording Foundation Award

Paula Robison, flute
Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award

Mikhail Simonyan, violin
CRF Young Artist of the Year Award

The Seventh Annual CRF Awards Ceremony will be held at 8pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. A benefit reception will follow.

The ceremony will feature performances by the award winners, with the Claremont Trio (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, ‘cello; Donna Kwong, piano) performing Paul Chihara’s Ain't No Sunshine. Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott will play Gershwin’s Piano Preludes. Flutist Paula Robison (collaborating with violinist Adam Abeshouse, pianist Steve Beck, and guitarist Fred Hand) will present a range of music from Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land. A trip to Jerusalem with painter Jim Schantz including Shall We Gather at the River, The King of Love My Shepherd Is, plus the New York premiere of Blue by Bruce Stark. Violinist Mikhail Simonyan will perform Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No 2.

To date, CRF has assisted in the creation of more than twenty new recordings by classical artists.

Tickets to the 2008 Awards Ceremony and Benefit are $75 (Award Ceremony only) and $200+ donation (Award Ceremony and Reception). Call 914.738.8754 to purchase or for more information.

To view photos of the 2007 Awards Ceremony, click here.

All 2007 Awards Ceremony photos by Neil Yelsey.