Violinist Randall Goosby is among the five recipients selected for the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant announced on 22 March by Avery Fisher Artist Program Chair, Deborah Borda, and Charles Avery Fisher, Nancy Fisher, and Philip Avery Kirschner, children and grandson of the late Avery and Janet Fisher. The Career Grant performances will be webcast live by WQXR, New York’s all-classical music station, at www.wqxr.org on 22 March at 18:00 EST, and broadcast again on Thursday, 14 April at 21:00 and Saturday, 16 April at 19:00 EST on 105.9 FM.
The other recipients honoured this year are Steven Banks, saxophone, Ji Su Jung, marimba and solo percussion, Mackenzie Melemed, piano, and Jonathan Swensen, cello. Avery Fisher Career Grants of the Avery Fisher Artist Program are designed to give professional assistance and recognition to talented instrumentalists, as well as chamber ensembles, who the Recommendation Board and Executive Committee of the Avery Fisher Artist Program believe to have great potential for major careers. Each recipient receives an award of $25,000, to be used for specific needs in advancing a career. Recipients are nominated by the Program’s Recommendation Board, made up of distinguished instrumentalists, conductors, composers, music educators, managers and presenters. Since 1976, 166 Career Grants have been awarded (including this year’s grants), and all recipients are currently active musicians. Former Career Grant recipients include pianists Jonathan Biss and Yuja Wang; violinists Augustin Hadelich and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; flutist Demarre McGill; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; and the Calidore String Quartet.
