Awards Ceremony 2024 Recap

Dr. André De Quadros, 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us earlier this month for our 40th Annual Awards Ceremony. It was such a joy to celebrate the recipients of our 2024 Alfred Nash Patterson Grants - choral organizations across New England, including from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts. 

And what an honor to be able to recognize our 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Dr. André De Quadros. Many thanks to VOICES 21C for their inspiring performance! 

During this season of gratitude, we want to express our appreciation to all of the wonderful musicians and organizations elevating choral music and creativity in New England. Learn more about Choral Arts New England and our 2024 award recipients. 

Watch a recording of the awards ceremony here and view photos of the ceremony here.

 

2024 Alfred Nash Patterson Grant Recipients

Choral Arts New England is delighted to announce the funding of 16 project grants totaling $29,000, which exceeds our previous highest award total of $25,000 in the 2023 cycle. Award recipients represent choral organizations across New England, including from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, and were chosen out of 48 applications.

Award recipients will be honored at our grant ceremony in the fall of 2024, and the projects are described below from excerpts of the applications. In addition, where a recipient received a named grant, is listed next to the recipient’s name.

Congratulations to all our awardees, and please stay tuned for our next application cycle to open for 2025!

“Choral music, especially serious choral music, is confrontational. Music is not here to please or to make us feel good. Nor is it here to soothe or to respond to our specific needs. Its power lies not in giving answers, but in asking questions. And in order to ask searching questions so that we might have a chance of answering them for ourselves, the music must be of a high order.”
 —David Hoose, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient