Randall Goosby awarded 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant
Randall Goosby has been awarded a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant (Photo Credit: Jeremy Mitchell)
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RANDALL GOOSBY AWARDED 2022 AVERY FISHER CAREER GRANT
NEW YORK (March 22, 2022) — Randall Goosby has been awarded a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant. The announcement is being made live today at 6pm ET by Avery Fisher Artist Program Chair Deborah Borda and Charles Avery Fisher, Nancy Fisher and Philip Avery Kirschner, children and grandson of the late Avery and Janet Fisher. Goosby is being honored alongside four other 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients: Steven Banks, saxophone; Ji Su Jung, marimba and solo percussion; Mackenzie Melemed, piano; and Jonathan Swensen, cello.
Performances by all five Career Grant recipients for an invited audience will follow the announcement. Hosted by WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon, the Career Grant performances will also be webcast live by WQXR, New York’s all-classical music station and broadcast on Thursday, April 14 at 9pm ET and Saturday, April 16 at 7pm ET at www.wqxr.org. The 2022 Career Grant presentation continues a long-standing philanthropic tradition established by Avery Fisher. WQXR has been a broadcast partner of these festivities since the first Career Grants were awarded in 1976, a relationship spanning forty-six years.
Since 1976, 166 Career Grants have been awarded (including this year’s grants), and all recipients are currently active musicians. Former Career Grant recipients include pianists Jonathan Biss and Yuja Wang; violinists Augustin Hadelich and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; flutist Demarre McGill; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; and the Calidore String Quartet.
Randall Goosby said: “I am incredibly honored to have been selected as a recipient of an Avery Fisher Grant. The Avery Fisher Artist program has played a pivotal role in supporting a lineage of musicians who I feel privileged to be part of. I am grateful and look forward to sharing this incredible art form of classical music with everyone.”
Avery Fisher Career Grants of the Avery Fisher Artist Program are designed to give professional assistance and recognition to talented instrumentalists, as well as chamber ensembles, who the Recommendation Board and Executive Committee of the Avery Fisher Artist Program believe to have great potential for major careers. Each recipient receives an award of $25,000, to be used for specific needs in advancing a career. Additionally, the Career Grant ceremony performances are professionally recorded for the recipients’ unrestricted use, posted on the Program’s website, webcast live and later broadcast and streamed by WQXR. As of 2016, recipients receive a custom designed rosette, given as an emblem of the Career Grant award. Up to five Avery Fisher Career Grants may be given each year. Recipients are nominated by the Program's Recommendation Board, made up of distinguished instrumentalists, conductors, composers, music educators, managers and presenters.
The Executive Committee currently comprises Emanuel Ax, pianist; Deborah Borda, Chair, Avery Fisher Artist Program and Linda and Mitch Hart President & CEO, New York Philharmonic; Mary Lou Falcone, M.L. Falcone, Public Relations; David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Henry Fogel, Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of the Arts, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University; Anthony Fogg, Bernell Artistic Administrator and Director of Tanglewood, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Pamela Frank, violinist; Jeremy Geffen, Executive and Artistic Director, Cal Performances; Ara Guzelimian, Artistic and Executive Director, Ojai Music Festival and Special Advisor, Office of the President, The Juilliard School; Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; Anthony McGill, clarinetist; Chad Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Los Angeles Philharmonic; Matías Tarnopolsky, President and CEO, The Philadelphia Orchestra; Shanta Thake, Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and Henry Timms, President and CEO, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Charles Avery Fisher, Nancy Fisher and Philip Avery Kirschner are advisors to the Executive Committee. The Avery Fisher Artist Program is grateful to Lincoln Center, Inc. for continued support. We also acknowledge our gratitude to WQXR for partnering in presenting the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant awards.
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About the Avery Fisher Artist Program
The Avery Fisher Artist Program, established by the late Avery Fisher as part of a major gift to Lincoln Center in 1974, serves as a monument to Mr. Fisher’s philanthropy and love of music. The Career Grants exemplify his devotion to helping young artists and embody his philosophy to give back to the world what music had given to him. The Program, supporting instrumentalists and chamber ensembles who must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents, continues to provide recognition in two categories: the Career Grants, given annually, and the Prize, given less frequently as the highest form of recognition for excellence and contribution to classical music. The Avery Fisher Artist Program is committed to all forms of diversity, with award recipients being chosen on the basis of outstanding artistic merit. Final selections are made by the Program’s Executive Committee.
About Randall Goosby
Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020 at the age of 24, American violinist Randall Goosby is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his musicianship alongside his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, as well as to bring the music of under-represented composers to light.
Highlights of Randall Goosby’s 2021-22 season include debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl, Baltimore Symphony under Dalia Stasevska, Detroit Symphony under Jader Bignamini, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra. He makes recital appearances at London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y, San Francisco Symphony’s Davies Symphony Hall and Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Randall Goosby has performed with orchestras across the United States including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Nashville Symphony and New World Symphony. Recital appearances have included the Kennedy Center, Kravis Center and Wigmore Hall. Randall Goosby was First Prize Winner in the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 2019, he was named the inaugural Robey Artist by Young Classical Artists Trust in partnership with Music Masters in London; and in 2020 he became an Ambassador for Music Masters, a role that sees him mentoring and inspiring students in schools around the United Kingdom.
Goosby made his debut with the Jacksonville Symphony at age nine. At age 13, he performed with the New York Philharmonic on a Young People’s Concert at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and became the youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition. He is a recipient of Sphinx’s Isaac Stern Award and of a career advancement grant from the Bagby Foundation. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he is pursuing an Artist Diploma under Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho. An active chamber musician, he has spent his summers studying at the Perlman Music Program, Verbier Festival Academy and Mozarteum Summer Academy, among others. Randall Goosby plays a 1735 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù on generous loan from the Stradivari Society. Randall Goosby appears courtesy of Decca Classics.
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