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The 2001 Award Recipient, musician William R. Harvey
A distinguished violinist, 20 year-old William R. Harvey
recently studied with Zvi Zeitlin at the Music Academy of
the West in Santa Barbara and is currently studying at Indiana
University with Ilya Kaler. Recently a student at Juilliard
School in New York City, he studied violin with Dorothy DeLay
and Stephen Clapp and composition with Samuel Adler.
A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Mr. Harvey served as
concertmaster for four central Indiana youth orchestras. He
has performed solo with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
and the New World Youth Symphony. A chamber musician, he has
collaborated with concert pianists Zyeda Suzuki and Christopher
O'Riley.
A composer, Mr. Harvey's compositions
have been performed at four colleges
in the United States and at seven
conservatories, as well as at a
medieval church and a castle in
central France, where his performance
and compositions were lauded by
the great French composer Henri
Dutilleux. Mr. Harvey is also a
violist who served as principal
violist of the Manhattan Virtuosi
and the New York Sinfonietta. His
previous violin teachers include:
Mimi Zweig, Stephen Shipps and Tatiana
Vorobiva. His previous composition
teachers include Michael Schelle
and Don Freund.
On September 16, 2001, Mr. Harvey
received the regimental coin of
the famous Fighting 69th
Division in recognition of the performance
he gave to the soldiers as they
returned to the New York City Armory
after their long and trying day
of rescue and clean-up work at the
site of the World Trade Center.
In recognition of his efforts
on that day, the Thirteen-Fifty
Foundation presented its first Abraham
Lincoln Spirit of America Award
and a Patriot Prize to Mr. Harvey.
In grateful appreciation, Mr. Harvey
performed some of the selections
he performed at the New York City
Armory in the aftermath of September
11, 2001 at the foundation's inaugural
event in a short program of music
entitled, Music of Hope.
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