Conductor Neville Marriner Receives Colburn Award, Gala Held 4/22

It was announced today that Sir Neville Marriner will be honored with the Richard D. Colburn Award at The Colburn School's gala concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall on April 22nd.

Marriner will receive this special Award at the annual Celebrate Colburn gala as he conducts the Colburn Orchestra, the flagship ensemble of the Downtown Los Angeles school. This year's event is titled: Celebrate Colburn 100, as it marks Richard D. Colburn centenary.

Sel Kardan, President and CEO of the Colburn School said: "Sir Neville shaped the artistic landscape of Los Angeles with his time as the Music Director of LACO and inspired and mentored our students during his guest conductor residency in 2011. We are thrilled to honor him with a special night of performance and celebration."

Upon receiving the award announcement, Marriner said:
"Richard Colburn has had an indelible impact on the arts in Southern California. His monumental and unwavering passion for classical music in Los Angeles has paved the way for the talents coming out of the Colburn School. I am enormously proud, in what would have been his 100th year, to receive the Richard D. Colburn Award. I cannot think of a better way to celebrate
this tremendous legacy than in Disney Hall, performing with the next generation of great classical musicians in the Colburn Orchestra."

The Richard D. Colburn Award recognizes and honors an individual whose lifelong dedication, work, talent and reputation enhance the teaching and performance of classical music or dance in the Southern California Community.

The 6:30 pm program at Walt Disney Concert Hall is: Rossini's William Tell Overture and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Also on the bill is Barber's Violin Concerto, which will feature young Colburn Academy violinist Mayumi Kanagawa, the 2011 winner of the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. The Colburn Schools Music Director and Conductor Yehuda Gilad, will also take to the podium on this celebratory night.

One of the world's most recorded conductors, Sir Neville Marriner was the first Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 1969. He began his professional life as a violinist, with performances with many of London's top ensembles, including many years as principal second violin the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1959, he founded the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, which he directed from both the concertmaster's chair and conductor's podium. In 1969, Sir Neville co-founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, while at the same time extending the repertoire of the Academy and guest conducting symphony orchestras around the world. He has served as Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Sudwest Deutsche Rundfunk Orchestra in Stuttgart, all while continuing to record with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the most comprehensively recorded chamber orchestras in
the world. He has twice been honored for services to music in his native Great Britain and received additional honors in Germany, France, and Sweden.

Tickets to the performance at Walt Disney Concert hall are available to the public starting at $15. Visit www.colburnschool.edu/tickets or call 213.621.1050 for box office information.

About The Colburn School
The Colburn School is a world-class performing arts school located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, neighboring the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Music Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the planned Broad Museum. Its acclaimed faculty provides students with the highest quality performing arts education with a multitude of performance opportunities in a state-of-the-art facility. More than 2000 students attend classes in our four schools-- the Conservatory of Music, the School of Performing Arts, the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, and the Academy.

Colburn students from all the divisions perform over 200 free public concerts and recitals each year and engage in extensive outreach initiatives in LAUSD schools. For more information about The Colburn School and its programs, visit our website at www.colburnschool.edu.

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