{"id":49269,"date":"2017-11-21T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=49269"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:53:42","slug":"the-scoop-the-canada-council-announce-major-prizes-to-rodney-sharman-gabriel-dharmoo-and-vanessa-hunt-russell-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/11\/21\/the-scoop-the-canada-council-announce-major-prizes-to-rodney-sharman-gabriel-dharmoo-and-vanessa-hunt-russell-land\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canada Council Award Three Artists With Major Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rodney Sharman \u2014 winner of the 2017 The Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts\u00a0 (Photo: Belle Ancell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Canada Council awarded three of their most prestigious music related prizes yesterday, each with a cash award of between $7,500 and $50,000.<\/p>\n

The Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts ($50,000)<\/h2>\n

One of the Canada Council’s biggest awards, The Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts has been awarded to Vancouver-based composer Rodney Sharman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The award recognizes the artistic excellence and career achievement by artists working in music, theatre or dance and cycles every four years between dance, theatre, dance and music. Up until now,\u00a0the music category has been dominated by Ontario artists: R. Murray Schafer (2005), Robert Aitken (2009), and the Gryphon Trio (2013).<\/p>\n

Sharman marks the first time a BC-based musician\u00a0has\u00a0won the coveted award.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel honoured,\u201d said Sharman in a press release statement. \u201cI am also pleased to be able to devote time to writing pieces I have been thinking about for years. I am touched, too, in that my first dance collaboration with James Kudelka,\u00a0Thrust, is dedicated to Walter Carsen in celebration of\u00a0 his 2000 Ramon John Hnatyshyn award for volunteerism in the performing arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Virginia Parker Prize\u00a0($25,000)<\/h2>\n
\"Vanessa
Vanessa Hunt Russell \u2014 2017 The Virginia Parker Prize (Photo via The Canada Council for the Arts)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Virginia Parker Prize has been awarded to cellist Vanessa Hunt Russell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The prize is unique in that it recognizes musicians under the age of 32, who demonstrate outstanding talent, musicianship and artistic excellence, and who make a valuable contribution to creative life in Canada and internationally.<\/p>\n

Hailing from Montreal, Russell has been making waves in Switzerland playing as a soloist and chamber musician\u00a0and studying for her masters at the Z\u00fcrcher Hochschule der K\u00fcnste.<\/p>\n

The Jules L\u00e9ger Prize for New Chamber Music ($7,500)<\/h2>\n
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Gabriel Dharmoo \u2014 2017 The Jules L\u00e9ger Prize for New Chamber Music (Photo: Antoine Bordeleau, VOIR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Jules L\u00e9ger Prize for New Chamber Music has been awarded to Montreal’s Gabriel Dharmoo<\/strong> for his work\u00a0Wanmansho<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n