Sarah Mead Receives 2007 Thomas Binkley Award
The Board of Directors of Early Music America has announced the 2007 recipient of the Thomas Binkley Award,
for outstanding achievement by a university collegium director. This
year's award, presented during this year's Boston Early Music
Festival, went to Sarah Mead, Associate Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University.
Sarah Mead is director of the Early Music Ensemble at Brandeis, which
celebrated their 25th anniversary this past December with a concert by
members and alumni. Sarah is also an active member of the Viola
da Gamba Society - New England.
The award is named for the legendary lutenist and educator Thomas
Binkley, who taught at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, made
ground-breaking recordings with the Studio der Frühen Musik,
and served as founding director of the Early Music Institute at
Indiana University. It recognizes outstanding achievement in
both performance and scholarship by the director of a university
or college collegium musicum.
The awards ceremony took place at Emmanuel Church on Friday June 15th,
2007 at the reception after the Ensemble La Rota concert.
Congratulations, Sarah!!
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