Joysanne Sidimus, winner of a 2006 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement. Sidimus is the co-editor of Reflections in a Dancing Eye: Investigating the Artist’s Role in Canadian Society, published this fall by The Banff Centre Press; Choreographer David Earle, winner of the 2006 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Administered by the Canada Council, this prize has been awarded to alumni of the Centre every year since its inception in 2001; Peter Behrens, winner of the 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for English Fiction, and fellow nominees Rawi Hage, Bill Gaston, and Trevor Cole; Ceramist and sculptor Peter Powning, winner of the 2006 Saidye Bronfman Award; John Murrell, executive artistic director of Performing Arts, named as one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People by Alberta Venture magazine; Former Banff Centre President David Leighton, whose seven-year term as chair of the National Arts Centre board was honoured with the establishment of two NAC endowments: the Leighton Talent Development Endowment and the Leighton Family Tribute Fund; |
The Jupiter String Quartet, winners of Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award; Jazz musician and composer Brad Turner, winner of a 2006 Victor Martyn Lynch-Stanton award; The Land’s End Chamber Ensemble, whose CD Rollin’ down #1, recorded at the Centre, won Outstanding Classical Recording at the Western Canadian Music Awards; Nancy Huston, winner of the Prix Femina, one of France’s most prestigious literary prizes; 2006 Alberta Book Award winners Colleen Heffernan, Sharon Pollock, Ted Bishop, and Sheri D Wilson; Jane Hilberry, winner of a 2006 Colorado Book Award; 2006 Dora Mavor Award winners Richard Bradshaw, Susanna Hood, Michael Levine, Ahdri Zhina Madiela, Jennifer Tarver, and Nigel Shawn Williams; Raoul Bhaneja and Robert Ross Parker, whose production of Hamlet (solo) won a 2005/6 MECCA award; Lázsló Funtek, Eva von Genczy, Lázsló Barna, Elaine Kalman Naves, Anna Porter, and Peter Simon, honoured as distinguished Hungarian Canadians in the Hungary 50th Anniversary Project. |
Published: January 2007.