Winners of the 2000 Guggenheim Fellowships

9 Composers Receive 2000 Guggenheim Fellowships

Results of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's seventy-sixth annual United States and Canadian competition have been announced by Foundation president Joel Conarroe. Nine composers and two music scholars were among the 182 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from over 2900 applicants for awards totaling $6,345,000. The nine composer recipients are Martin Brody, Shih-Hui Chen, Milford Graves, Gerry Hemingway, Larry Karush, James Matheson, James Rolfe, Roswell Rudd, and David J. Vayo. Musicologist Peter Jeffery and writer Manuela Hoelterhoff also received fellowships.

Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundation's Board of Trustees, which includes six members who are themselves past Fellows of the Foundation - Joel Conarroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard A. Rifkind, Charles A. Ryskamp, Wendy Wasserstein, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The new Fellows include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities. Many of these individuals hold appointments in colleges and universities, with 82 institutions being represented by one or more Fellows. A number of those named have no academic affiliation.

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. Scores of Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and eminent scientists appear on the roll of Fellows, which includes Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladamir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Paul Samuelson, Martha Graham, Philip Roth, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty.