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Igor Gorin Memorial Award |
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Established in 1987 by Mary S. Gorin in memory of her husband, a world-renowned singer, the Igor Gorin Memorial Fund provides financial assistance to young opera singers.
Candidates for the Igor Gorin Memorial Fund Award have won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions held in Arizona or any similar competition during the last seven years. Recipients may be eligible for a second year of funding based on the quality of continued singing appearances and submission of a completed application. The funds may be used for a variety of purposes, including general living expenses or professional development. To download a 2007 application, go to the Grants and Awards Download Center.
The deadline to submit a 2007 application is 5 pm Friday, January 12.
About Igor Gorin
Mr. Gorin was a Russian refugee who in the late 1920s escaped to Vienna and then Czechoslovakia on forged papers before immigrating to the United States. Mr. Gorin studied at the Vienna Conservatory and later furthered his operatic reputation as a member of the Czechoslovakian Opera Company. He began his career in the U.S. as a cantor of a synagogue in Providence, Rhode Island, and went on to perform in film and radio and on stage and television. 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, University of Arizona president Richard Harvill invited him to begin a second career teaching opera.
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, the Gorins established their scholarship fund with CFSA.
For more information please contact:
Audrey Ching
Program Associate, CFSA
2250 E. Broadway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85719
Telephone: 520.770-0800
FAX : 520.770-1500
email: aching@cfsoaz.org
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Click on the PDF icon to see a list of past recipients of the Igor Gorin Memorial Fund Award |
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