2020 Alumni Award Nominations

Do you know alumni of the University of Hartford's The Hartt School who have made significant accomplishments in the performing arts as artists, scholars, or educators? We are seeking nominations for The Hartt School Alumni Award. Since 1959, The Hartt School has acknowledged an outstanding alumna or alumnus annually with this prestigious award.

 

This fall, our committee will meet to select a recipient for 2020 who will be recognized at Commencement next May. The committee seeks to collect a diverse list of nominations representing the various performing arts disciplines of The Hartt School. Our past award recipients come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and we look forward to adding to the list.

 

Qualifying criteria for the award are:

•	Distinguished professional accomplishments of a Hartt alumna/us in an area of the performing arts as an artist, scholar, educator, manager, or technician
•	Professional and critical recognition of these accomplishments

 

Do you know someone who should be honored? Submit your nomination by Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.

 

Thank you,

The Hartt School Alumni Award Committee

David Macbride Festival

On October 2-5, 2019, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, will celebrate the life and work of composer David Macbride in a series of concerts devoted to his music, and his creative influence on generations of composers. David was a faculty member at Hartt from 1984 until his untimely death in September 2018. He was an undergraduate at Hartt, and was awarded the School’s Distinguished Alumni Award. His body of work is prolific and wide-ranging, covering almost every medium of concert music. But undoubtedly his greatest impact on the field has been that of his percussion music, which are firmly entrenched in the repertoire, with continuing performances nationally and internationally.


Oct. 2 will be chamber music played by Hartt faculty.
oct. 3 will be a concert of percussion works.
Oct. 4 will be tribute works composed in David's memory by Hartt alumni and faculty. Oct. 5 will feature the Hartt Wind Ensemble in a concert of large ensemble works David composed. 


The concerts will be live-streamed HERE.