Damien Sneed
Carla Dirlikov
Pedrito Martinez
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(Copyright Martin Cohen/congahead.com)
The New York Times Blog
December 24, 2013
Sphinx Awards Highlight Promise Among Young Musicians
By ALLAN KOZINN
The Sphinx Organization,
a national training program devoted to getting black and Hispanic
students involved in classical music performance, announced the winners
of its 2014 artist scholarships on Tuesday. The awards, for musicians in
the early stages of their careers who demonstrate, as Sphinx puts it,
“artistic excellence, outstanding work ethic, a spirit of determination
and great potential for leadership,” include a $50,000
career-development scholarship and the organization’s Medal of
Excellence.
The winners are Damien Sneed,
a pianist, organist, composer and producer from Augusta, Ga., who made
his conducting debut in 2008, leading the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra and a 150-voice choir in the premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s
“Abyssinian Mass”; Carla Dirlikov,
a mezzo-soprano of Bulgarian and Mexican descent, who in addition to
her opera and concert engagements, teaches orphaned and impoverished
students in Mexico; and Pedro Pablo Martinez, a Cuban percussionist who leads the Pedrito Martinez Group.
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