Awards and Accolades
The Banff Centre salutes the following Banff Centre alumni and faculty for these recent awards and accomplishments:
Dancer/choreographer Peggy Baker (2007 Fleck Fellow), and composer R. Murray Schafer, winners of 2009 Governor General’s Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards; and actor/director Paul Gross, winner of the 2009 Governor General’s National Arts Centre Award, and also the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction at the 30th Banff World Television Festival;
Former Banff Centre Board of Governors member and Centre supporter James D. Fleck, winner of the Governor General’s 2009 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts;
Rita McKeough and Robert Morin, 2009 Governor General’s Award winners in Visual and Media Arts;
Alex Ross, winner of a 2008 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship;
Bernadette McDonald, former vice president of the Centre’s Mountain Culture division, selected to receive Alberta’s highest honour, the Alberta Order of Excellence, for her work on mountain culture and environment programming;
Mountain writer, adventurer, and philanthropist Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize by the members of the United States Congress;
Maja Ardal, Peggy Baker, Denise Clarke, John Gzowski, Des McAnuff, Crystal Pite, Kimberley Purtell, Ed Roy, and Alison Sealy-Smith, winners of 2009 Dora Mavor Moore Awards;
A.F. Moritz, winner of 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize; CBC Literacy Award winners Sue Goyette, Claire Battershill, and Gitanjali Kolanad; Russell Wangersky, winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction; Rob Kapilow, winner of a 2009 PROSE award;
Jane Bunnett, winner of Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards for Embracing Voices, an album recorded at The Banff Centre (recording engineer: John D.S. Adams, assistant engineer: Andrew Matthews, mastering engineer: Steve Bellamy); and fellow Juno award recipients Kent Nagano and Jayme Stone;
Composer Wang Jie, recipient of the American Composers Orchestra’s $15,000 Underwood Emerging Composers Commission;
The Banff Centre Library & Archives iTunes site, recipient of the Canadian Library Association’s Innovation Achievement Award — a project spearheaded by Library manager James Rout;
Banff Centre executive sous-chef Chris Thomson, gold medal winner at the 2009 Canadian Chef’s Competition
Banff Centre director of customer service Jim Olver, winner of a 2009 Banff Heritage Tourism Ambassador Award.
