YU-HUI CHANG, CHRISTOPHER DIETZ, DU YUN, GEOFFREY GORDON, MARK KILSTOFTE, LEI LIANG, JUSTIN MERRITT, STEPHEN ANDREW TAYLOR and USHIO TORIKAI with Aaron Copland Awards composer residencies for 2008. Those selected receive all-expenses-paid residencies at Copland's restored, longtime home in Lower Hudson Valley.
COOL DAYS END received four Grammy considerations. Their first album, Streets, Dreams and Everything in Between came out on Kace Records. They performed at the 2008 Wingstock Festival.
COREY DARGEL'S Removable Parts with an IT Award for "Outstanding Performance Art Production."
IRVING FIELDS was both an honoree and performer at the Arts for the Aged in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2008. President Bush congratulated Fields on his 93 rd birthday.
FRITZ'S POLKA BAND with two Upper State Independent Awards, one in the Country/Bluegrass category and one in the International category.
SAGE GENTLE-WING'S "Litany of Saints" and "Don't Ask Why" in the 'We Call This Music Fab' Sonicbids sponsored song contest.
BYRON HILL with CCMA Producer of the Year for his production of Gord Bamford's Honkytonks and Heartaches.
HUCK HODGE with the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize for his piece "Parallaxes." Hodge has been commissioned by the Music Center of the Netherlands to write a new piece for the 2009 Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
JES as one of eight songwriters chosen by Coca-Cola to create music for its WE8 campaign and new aluminum bottles series. JES was the only female writer.
GRACE KELLY with Outstanding Jazz Act of the Year at the Boston Music Awards.
CHER and GENE KLOSNER'S two-disc lullaby album, Stardust, by iParenting Media, Parents' Choice, Creative Child Magazine, The Dove Foundation, Parents with Style and more.
JAVIER JIMMY LOPEZ with the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis during the 2008 Darmstadt Summer Course for Contemporary Music. This is the top honor at the festival. His work Fiesta! For orchestra was premiered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in May.
CORY PARKINSON with the Illinois Music Educators Association's composition awards for Vocal Solo and Choral for the 2009 All-State Conference.
DAVE SAMUELS, bandleader/vibraphonist for Caribbean Jazz Project, with a Latin Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album for Afro Bop Alliance. The Caribbean Jazz Project crafted their first recordings on Heads Up International in the 1990s and immediately captured the imagination of audiences and critics worldwide. The group won a Grammy in 2003.
ADAM SWINK with 'Fan Favorite' in the Indie Singer Songwriter Association Song Contest. He was also a young artist showcase performer in the Mountain Stage NewSong Contest.
JIMMY WOLF with 'Best Blues Recording' at the 2008 Native American Music Awards.
RAIN WORTHINGTON'S composition "Shredding Glass" with consideration for the 2009 Grammy Awards.
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