The IAML Publications Awards Subcommitee, at the 2018 Congress in Leipzig, has announced the recipients of the 2016 and 2017 Vladimir Fédorov Award for best article published in Fontes Artis Musicae and the François Lesure Award for the best review published in the journal.
For over thirty years, she has promoted the interests of the users of music libraries through publications, advocacy, and tireless work in many roles within the Music Library Association, among them Member-at-Large, Development Officer, Program Chair, President, recipient of the Special Achievement Award for Plan 2001, ALA Representative, Local Arrangements Co-Chair, and Editor of Notes. Within the International Association of Music Libraries she has been active in its professional branches and—as President of IAML’s US Branch—she was an early advocate for the merging of IAML and MLA. As the Vice President for Library and Information Resources at The Juilliard School, she has fostered the development of the Lila Acheson Wallace Library as a major performing arts research collection and has worked with her administration to secure the best possible facilities for the collection’s housing and use. Through her labor and leadership, she has enhanced the prestige of the profession of music librarianship and has come to embody the purposes of this Association.
John Luther Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in Music this week for his piece "Become Ocean." Read more about him and hear some of his music.
Veslemöy Heintz, Honorary Member of IAML and President 1995-1998, has received "Medaljen för Tonkonstens Främjande". This is the most prestigious award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The medal has been awarded since 1945 during a ceremony at the Academy to highly deserving individuals for significant contributions in the promotion of Swedish Music.
Roger Flury’s book, Giacomo Puccini: A Discography (Scarecrow Press), has won the 2013 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Classical Music - Discography. The goal of the ARSC Awards Program is to recognize and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research.
Cordial congratulations!
