2006 NEA Grant Awarded to Santa Rosa Symphony

News Release Contact:
Sara Obuchowski, (707) 546-7097 ext 218

January 17, 2005

(Santa Rosa, CA)öSanta Rosa Symphony received one of 45 ãGrants to Orchestrasä in the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) first round of FY06 grants in the category of Access to Artistic Excellence.

The $15,000 award will support the Russian Titans Festival: Music as Mirror of History, a series of three chamber concerts at the Jackson Theater/Sonoma Country Day School, and a festival finale at the Luther Burbank Center. The programs, which take place over just eight days (March 25, 28, 30 and April 1), will be conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, and celebrate the masterworks of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

This is the third year in a row that the Santa Rosa Symphony has received an NEA grant for its interactive and thematically-unified festival series. The chamber concerts and the ãExploring the Classicsä finale, where a symphonic work is examined in depth through lecture, demonstration and performance by the full symphony, strengthen the engagement of the musicians and deepen the understanding of audiences, resulting in an enhanced artistic experience for all.

In the first NEA Access to Artistic Excellence announcement, a total of 794 grants were awarded across all arts disciplines, for a total of $19,406,500.