2002 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded
Nine composers and two musical scholars are among the award recipients of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation‘s seventy-eighth annual United States and Canadian competition. A total of 184 artists, scholars, and scientists were selected from among over 2,800 applicants to receive awards totaling $6,750,000.
This year’s awardees include:
Composers
- Robert Livingston Aldridge
- Louise Beach
- Nicholas Brooke
- Dennis Eberhard
- Bun-Ching Lam
- Arthur Levering II
- Dewey Redman
- Richard Lowe Teitelbaum
- Craig Walsh
Scholars
The Fellows are appointed “on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.” Award decisions are based on the recommendations of hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees which includes composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
The Foundation points out that “in a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities, and sciences, the Guggenheim Fellowship program has assumed a greatly increased importance and the Foundation is successfully raising funds to enable the appointment of a larger number of Fellows each year.”