2018 Pentland Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
2018: Bramwell Tovey
Awarded on January 20, 2018
The world has only ever known one Leonard Bernstein. And any orchestra today would give their eyeteeth to find another. Yet that is exactly what the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has had, and indeed what the entire nation of Canada has been fortunate to have ever since Maestro Bramwell Tovey first moved to this country in 1989.
Mark Swed, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called a concert Bramwell conducted there “one of the greatest occasions in the history of the Hollywood Bowl,” placing him in a pantheon with two other great conductors — Dudamel and none other than Leonard Bernstein.
Award of Excellence
Jocelyn Morlock
Presented on December 4, 2018 at the Murray Adaskin Salon — on winning Trifecta of SOCAN, WCMA, and a JUNO!
Ian Hampton
Presented June 23, 2018 at the Murray Adaskin Salon • Read More
Outstanding Composition
Chor Leoni C/4 Canadian Choral Composition Competition
Presented February 23, 2018 • Read More
Marie-Claire Saindon for Mer calme
Benjamin Bolden for Twilight
Gerda Blok-Wilson for O Little Rose, O Dark Rose
Outstanding Performance
Fionna Lyons
Presented on May 12, 2018, at the Kiwanis Competition
Spurrell Studio Choir
Presented on July 7, 2018, at the International Choral Kathaumixw Festival
Pentland Prize
John Stetch (UBC)
Presented on June 1, 2018, at the Murray Adaskin Salon • Read More