A dinner performance featuring select winners from the past decade along with recipients of the 2016 award demonstrates the accomplishments of the talented, passionate, and hard-working Avanti artists.
Featured performers from the past decade include: Elizabeth Hertzberg, originally from San Rafael, winner of the Giannino Zecca and Ferruccio Busoni International Singing Competitions, who now lives and sings opera in Milan Kenneth Renshaw, from San Francisco, who is now completing the final year of his undergraduate degree for Violin Performance at The Juilliard School in New York where he studies with Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, and Li Lin Juan David Mejia, who received a university fellowship to become a DMA candidate for Cello performance with a minor in Conducting at The University of Arizona and Preston Powis, pop singer from Salt Lake City, who is producing two upcoming singles which are part of an anthology of works focused on love.
Part of the Avanti Award is that winners agree to return a year later so the audience can hear their work after they have used their grant money to improve upon their skills. These are the 2016 Avanti Award winners: Matthew Linaman, from San Francisco, who devoted the past year to teaching cello while crafting new musical arrangements and learning guides that simply did not exist before Madeleine Matej, from Mill Valley, who took her two years of academic research and vocal study of the mythical character of Eurydice and used it as a springboard to apply for a PhD in musicology and Andrew Sandahl, of Camarillo, CA who used his award money to study flamenco guitar in Spain.
Larry Brucia of San Anselmo, Francesca Bestwick of Kentfield, and Louise Montalbano of Poppi, Italy formed the Joseph and Frances Brucia Foundation, named for their parents, and called the awards "Avanti" meaning, "to go forth," taken from the title of a poem written by their father.
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