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Apogee Provides 33 Awards and Scholarships to Gifted Young Musicians...



The Apogee Foundation has culminated its first international music festival in Odessa by providing 33 awards and grants to elite young musicians and their instructors. The awards include 17 Excellence Awards, which are based on extraordinary ability and promise of future distinction, 15 Performance Awards, which were based on outstanding performances throughout the course of the festival, and one new Regional Award, which are designed to assist gifted artists from specific geopolitical regions. Coverage of the festival was broadcast on all national and local Ukrainian television stations as well as by local and national radio and print media. A thirty minute documentary film about the festival is now being produced, which also will soon be broadcast on national television.



For more information on Apogee'ss performing arts festivals, please refer to the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/productions/festivals.php



The 17 Excellence Awards provided by the Apogee festival jury included 14 Apogee Merit Scholarships, two Rising Star Awards and one Achievement Award. Merit Scholarships are provided to students demonstrating extraordinary ability and promise of future distinction in their fields based on a comprehensive evaluation, and recipients are entitled to monthly stipends to support their ongoing development as well as career support from Apogee Management. The 14 Merit Scholars named at the conclusion of the festival represented six leading training institutions located in five cities in three countries (Ukraine, Russia and Moldovia), and were named as follows: Vladislav Agramakov (piano), Akim Anum-Dorhuso (piano), Arseny Chubachin (cello), Bogdan Dekhtyaruk (trumpet), Simyon Gronik (fluer), Vladimir Kochnev (piano), Alexander Lisuk (cello), Artur Naziullan (clarinet), Sergey Nikituk (piano), Roman Sedovolosiy (violin), Alexei Semenyenko (violin), Yana Sharopanovskaya (violin), Olga Zadorozhnuik, and Malika Zhololova (violin). In addition to their receipt of Apogee Merit Scholarships, two of Apogee'ss most promising Merit Scholars from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Music College in Moscow, Arseny Chubachin (cello) and Artur Naziullin (clarinet), were awarded the Foundation'ss Rising Star Award, which is a form of Excellence Award provided to young performing artists judged to be rising to the top of their professions. The jury also provided a career Achievement Award to Pavel Kupin, an internationally renowned cello professor from the Odessa Conservatory and the Stolyarsky State Music School. Achievement Awards are provided to instructors who have consistently realized the potential of world class performing artists over the course of their careers.



For more information on Apogee'ss Excellence Award programs, please refer to the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awards/excellence.php



In addition to these 17 Excellence Awards, the festival jury provided 15 Performance Awards to festival participants in recognition of the extraordinary talent demonstrated in the course of four full days of concerts. Performance Awards are provided based on outstanding cycles of performances at events overseen by the Foundation, and include a one-time grant. The Performance Award recipients selected at the festival included 10 of the above 14 Merit Scholars as well as five additional laureates: Maria Kovalyova (piano and composition), Sergey Maiboroda (violin), Evgeny Popov (bassoon), Alina Steblovskaya (piano), and Yulia Zaporozhets (piano and composition).



For more information on Apogee'ss Performance Award programs, please refer to the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awards/performance.php



At the festival'ss closing ceremonies, the Foundation also announced that its jury had agreed to provide an additional Regional Award, the Belarus Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts, to Sergei Vosalevsky (violin). Apogee'ss Regional Awards are provided to gifted performing artists from designated geopolitical regions in order to promote local arts training and also to offer high potential candidates opportunities for international support and recognition. Vosalevsky was among the most promising young artists invited to participate in the festival based on the audition process and his past record of achievements, but he was unable to travel to Ukraine for the event because of his inability to obtain an exit visa from the government of Belarus.



For more information on Apogee'ss Regional Awards programs, please refer to the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awards/regional.php



Apogee'ss award jury consisted of Apogee President Kenneth Schneider, Stolyarsky State Music School Director and Deputy Director Evgeny Lisuk and Tatyana Markova, Kharkov State Music School Director Tamara Sengukova, and Odessa Conservatory Professor and Head of the Department of Tourism and Culture for the Odessa Province of Ukraine, Yuri Kuznetsov, and the festival was underwritten by a generous gift from former Apogee board members Dr. Bernard and Mrs. Marjorie Schneider.



For more information on Apogee'ss charitable giving programs, please refer to the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/people/benefactors/giving.php



Yuri Kuznetsov, Head of the Department of Tourism and Culture for the Odessa Province of Ukraine, said: Odessa is proud to have hosted Apogee'ss world class music festival, which formed a fitting tribute to the region'ss unique historic traditions and an indication of their continued vitality. On behalf Odessa and Ukraine, we welcome Apogee as a partner in continuing these traditions and look forward to many years of future collaboration.



Apogee President Kenneth Schneider said: Odessa is a city of musical legends, and it has been our privilege to become a part of its continuing traditions of producing elite musical talent. We are deeply grateful to the dozens of musicians who have shared their talents with the world at this event, and thank them for for the inspiration they have given all of us through the demonstration of their artistic and human excellence.



For more background on Apogee'ss Odessa music festival, please refer to the Foundation'ss previous release announcing the event: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awareness/2006-2007/pr060829.php



To view this news release with full photographic content as well as in printer friendly format, and to obtain translations into other languages as they become available, please refer to the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awareness/2006-2007/pr061003.php



About The Apogee Foundation

The Apogee Foundation began activities in Russia in 1997 and was incorporated in the United States in 2004 as a New York based not-for-profit corporation. Apogee is dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performing arts. It supports cultural institutions and individual artists, providing administrative, promotional, and financial support to help talented individuals achieve their full potential, and enabling this potential to be showcased to the world.



Contact

Kenneth Schneider, Apogee President

1001 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor

New York, NY 10018-5411 (USA)

+1.646.461.6196 or +1.888.APOGEE.8

Fax: +1.646.292.5101

www.ApogeeFoundation.org






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