Igor Gorin Memorial Award  

   

The Igor Gorin Memorial Award provides financial assistance to young opera singers. The assistance may be used for a variety of purposes including general living expenses and professional development.

The award was established 1987 by Mary S. Gorin in memory of her husband, a world-renowned opera singer.

Mr. Gorin was a Russian refugee who in the late 1920s escaped to Vienna before immigrating to the United States. Mr. Gorin studied at the Vienna Conservatory and later as a member of the Czechoslovakian Opera Company.


He began his career in this country as a cantor of a synagogue in Providence Rhode Island and went on to perform in radio, television, film and on the stage. His career spanned the 1930s through the 1960s and he gained a worldwide reputation as the “Prince of Baritones.”

Along with his wife, the former actress Mary Smith, Mr. Gorin retired to Tucson in 1965. Soon after, then University of Arizona president Richard Harvill invited him to begin a second career teaching opera at the university.

Mr. Gorin never forgot his early struggles to launch a career in music and believing that studying music strengthens one’s character and provides young people with a sense of accomplishment and worth, Mrs. Gorin established the Igor Gorin Memorial Scholarship Fund with CFSA.

 


Previous Recipients  

2007

Kara Harris, Tammi Huber, Priya Palekar

2006

Deana Mireau, Christina Pier, Vanessa Salaz, April Wilde

2004

Michael Cavalieri, Priya Palekar, Chrstina Pier, Vanessa Salaz

2003

Deana Mireau, Vanessa Salaz, Todd Strange

2002

Jesus Aguirre, Jessica Deardorff, Chad Miller, Deana Mireau, Amanda Polychronis, Vanessa Salaz, Todd Strange

2001

Ilse Apestegui, Yoo Ri Clark, Jennifer Anne Cooper, Chad Miller, Vanessa Salaz

2000

Yoo Ri Clark, Deana Mireau, Vanessa Salaz

1999

Tania Beasley, Jennifer Anne Cooper, Emil Dorian Cristescu, Regina Felsing, Bridgett Hooks, Elizabeth Miller Wesley, Ralph Daniel Rawe

1998

Jennifer Anne Cooper, Bridgett Hooks, Herbert Perry, Wendi Washington-Hunt

1997

Julianne Best, Emily Dorian Cristescu, Jennifer Anne Cooper, Wendi Washington-Hunt

1996

Jennifer Anne Cooper, Karol Kazarian, Eugene Perry

1995

Donna Ames, Emily Dorian Cristescu, Korby Myrick

1994

Emily Dorian Cristescu

1993

Donna Ames, Mark Anderson, Bridgett Hooks


Contact Us  Privacy Policy  Site Map  Terms of Use
© 2010, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, All rights reserved.
1.520.770.0800 telephone | 1.520.770.1500 fax
Confirmed in compliance with the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations
Powered by Stellar Technology Solutions, LLC.