{"id":5009,"date":"2014-10-20T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:27:21","slug":"philharmonia-director-wins-music-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/philharmonia-director-wins-music-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Philharmonia Director Wins Music Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Associate<\/a>Associate Professor of Music Andrew Koehler<\/strong>, who also serves as music director of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, is the 2014 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Programming\u2014Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award<\/a>\u2014in the community division. Andrew was selected from applications reviewed this summer from all across the United States. The American Prize<\/a> is a series of new, non-profit competitions unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. The award honors the work of Vytautas Marijosius, who served for 35 years as director of orchestral activities at the Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford. Andrew has appeared as a guest with the West Michigan Symphony; the Lyatoshynsky Chamber Orchestra in Kyiv, Ukraine; and the Festival South Chamber Orchestra in Mississippi, among others. Recently, he took part in the 9th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conductor\u2019s Competition in Katowice, Poland, where he won First Distinction and the Youth Jury Prize. Andrew is a graduate of Yale College, where he completed a B.A. in music and German studies (graduating with honors and distinction in both majors). He holds a certificate in conducting from the Universit\u00e4t f\u00fcr Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where he studied for two years as a Fulbright scholar, as well as a Master\u2019s degree from Northwestern University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associate Professor of Music Andrew Koehler, who also serves as music director of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, is the 2014 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Programming\u2014Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award\u2014in the community division. Andrew was selected from applications reviewed this summer from all across the United States. The American Prize is a series of new, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[30,43,39,61],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-awards","tag-community","tag-faculty","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"\r\nPhilharmonia Director Wins Music Award - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Associate Professor of Music Andrew Koehler, who also serves as music director of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, is the 2014 winner of The American Prize in\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/philharmonia-director-wins-music-award\/\" \/>\r\n<meta 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Programming\u2014Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award<\/a>\u2014in the community division. Andrew was selected from applications reviewed this summer from all across the United States. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanprize.org\/\">The American Prize<\/a> is a series of new, non-profit competitions unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. The award honors the work of Vytautas Marijosius, who served for 35 years as director of orchestral activities at the Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford. Andrew has appeared as a guest with the West Michigan Symphony; the Lyatoshynsky Chamber Orchestra in Kyiv, Ukraine; and the Festival South Chamber Orchestra in Mississippi, among others. Recently, he took part in the 9th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conductor\u2019s Competition in Katowice, Poland, where he won First Distinction and the Youth Jury Prize. Andrew is a graduate of Yale College, where he completed a B.A. in music and German studies (graduating with honors and distinction in both majors). He holds a certificate in conducting from the Universit\u00e4t f\u00fcr Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where he studied for two years as a Fulbright scholar, as well as a Master\u2019s degree from Northwestern University.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9698,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/9698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}