2015 AWARDEES

In commemoration of Ms. Behrens 78th birth anniversary on 9 February 2015, Hildegard Behrens Foundation Chairman Dr. Gaston Ormazabal announced the names of the artists who will be the beneficiaries of the 2015 Humanitarian Awards given to the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas’ Global Leaders Program. It will be recalled that the recipient organizations were announced last year on the 5th anniversary of Ms. Behrens’ passing in a simple ceremony held at the Metropolitan Opera that coincided with the visit to New York City of Ms. Behrens son and Advisory Board Member, Philip Behrens and his children Maria and Tony.
 

The Lindemann Program has chosen the up-and-coming lyric soprano YING FANG who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2013-2014 season. The China-born soprano has received some of the most coveted awards given to young singers and has been hailed as “the most gifted Chinese soprano of her generation” (Ningbo Daily).
LEARN MORE about YING FANG.
LEARN MORE about the LINDEMANN PROGRAM.
 

The Youth Orchestra of the Americas (YOA) has selected clarinetist JULIAN HERNANDEZ of San Juan, Puerto Rico and violinist ANDRÉ ROBLES FIELD of San José, Costa Rica to receive the Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award which will make it possible for them to participate in the YOA Global Leaders Program. The Program is a scholarship-based leadership and social entrepreneurship course offered annually to a select group of exceptional musicians. It consists of a year-long course that combines unique on-site leadership development in diverse international settings with remote classroom training guided by a pioneering faculty. Participants are taught how to become cultural entrepreneurs, mentors, teaching artists, advocates, performers, administrators, and fundraisers. By preparing young musical leaders to build and guide the social music initiatives of tomorrow, YOA’s Global Leaders Program seeks to secure the future of the global youth orchestra movement and to enrich the culture of communities worldwide for generations to come.
LEARN MORE about JULIAN HERNANDEZ and ANDRÉ ROBLES FIELD
LEARN MORE about the YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE AMERICAS

 

An award has been given to the GOTHAM CHAMBER OPERA, a vibrant New York-based opera company in support of its pioneering efforts to bring to the city’s opera-going public interesting repertory of rarely performed operas, ranging from Rameau’s Baroque pieces to Hosokawa’s contemporary works, in an intimate setting.

 

The Hildegard Behrens Foundation, through the New York-based Gabriela Mistral Foundation, awarded the Chilean Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts a donation in support of the First Prize of the 2014 Lyric Voices Contest “Women to Listen to”. Organized by the Chapter in Chile of the NMWA and Universidad Mayor in Chile, the contest aims to find and promote the talents of female classical singers thus encouraging the development of Chile’s musical heritage.

Read more about the award HERE.

Read an article (in Spanish, published in Chile’s leading entertainment magazine) about the Washington DC concert featuring the young soprano, Yaritza Véliz, First Prize winner of the NMWA’s 2014 Lyric Contest HERE. Chairman Dr. Gaston Ormazabal attended the event.