Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient story.
Choral Arts New England will host its annual awards ceremony on Sunday, October 26, 2025, at 3:00 PM at First Congregational Church in Winchester, MA. The event will celebrate exemplary contributions to the region’s choral life and recognize recipients of the 2025 Alfred Nash Patterson Grants. YOUR FREE TICKETS CAN BE OBTAINED HERE.
Choral Arts New England’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award is being made to Dr. Daniel F. Perkins, music director, conductor, professor of music, advocate for new music and educator.
Choral Arts New England will honor Dr. Daniel Perkins and the Alfred Nash Patterson Grantees at an awards ceremony to be held at 3:00 pm on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at:
Brookside Congregational Church
2013 Elm Street
Manchester, NH 03104
Reception to follow
Please join us to honor Dr. Perkins, the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, and the 13 recipients of 2023 Alfred Nash Patterson grants. These represent tremendous breadth and depth of musical accomplishment, innovation, and exploration. We are delighted to honor them and hope you can join us.
The COVID-19 crisis has had an enormous impact on choral organizations, and Choral Arts New England is proud to support our choral communities as they innovate and persevere through these uncertain times. This year, we have created a special recognition, the Phoenix Award, to highlight choruses who have made notable accomplishments in these difficult times. All choral groups whose primary activities fall within the six New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut or Rhode Island) are eligible for nomination.
Consider the following criteria for nominations:
Choral Arts New England will hold its 35th annual awards ceremony and reception on Sunday, November 3, 2019, honoring our 2019 Alfred Nash Patterson grant recipients and our Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Marguerite Brooks. The ceremony will take place at 3:00 pm at Old South Church, in Copley Square, Boston, with a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
Choral Arts New England held its 34th annual awards ceremony and reception on Sunday, November 4, 2018, honoring our 2018 Alfred Nash Patterson grant recipients and our Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dr. Gwyneth Walker. The ceremony was at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Johanna "Jody" Hill Simpson founded and, for 16 years, directed the PALS Children’s Chorus (now known as VOICES Boston), and more recently founded and is Artistic Director of Music on Norway Pond, in Hancock, NH. Her thirty-five years of dedication to the choral arts in New England have created an extraordinary legacy of choral excellence for singers of all ages and continue to produce some of New England’s most compelling and memorable musical experiences for participants and audiences alike.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented at a ceremony and reception on Sunday, October 22, 2017, where Choral Arts New England also presented the Alfred Nash Paterson Grant Award to eleven choruses from the six New England states. The ceremony was held at First Parish in Brookline.
Dr. Joshua Jacobson, 2016 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award, is the Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University, where he served nine years as Music Department Chairman and six years as the Bernard Stotsky Professor of Jewish Cultural Studies.
