新大梅多斯授予音乐家和作曲家斯图尔特·科普兰梅多斯奖
As the 2024 Meadows Award recipient, 科普兰将与梅多斯交响乐团合作，参加梅多斯在梅耶森举办的第31届年度慈善音乐会.
新加坡管理大学梅多斯艺术学院今天宣布，梅多斯奖的获得者是斯图尔特·科普兰, 作为英国摇滚乐队the Police的鼓手，他获得了全球的认可，也是一位广受赞誉的作曲家，他的职业生涯横跨电影领域, television, video games, ballet, opera, and orchestral music. As the recipient of the Meadows Award, first given in 1983, 今年春天，科普兰将完成在达拉斯的艺术驻留，并带领梅多斯交响乐团(Meadows Symphony Orchestra)演出他对《威尼斯人娱乐城》(the Police)最著名歌曲的完整改编, 《威尼斯人娱乐城》——这是该作品首次由大学管弦乐队演出——在第31届“Meadows at the Meyerson” benefit concert on April 16.
梅多斯奖颁发给在国内或国际上享有盛誉的艺术家，他们在自己的职业生涯中达到了最高的高度. 它是为了纪念一位艺术家在其杰出事业的顶峰所取得的成就. 该奖项包括与梅多斯学院的学生一起在校居住，并颁发给梅多斯学院的一个学术单位所代表的学科的艺术家:广告, art, art history, arts management and arts entrepreneurship, corporate communication and public affairs, creative computation, dance, film and media arts, journalism, music, and theater. In addition to performing with the Meadows Symphony Orchestra, 科普兰将把他的艺术合作者带到达拉斯，并与学生们谈论他的职业生涯.
“梅多斯学院授予斯图尔特·科普兰梅多斯奖不仅是因为他作为音乐家和作曲家的惊人天赋, 但也因为他对艺术创新和实验的不懈奉献，推动了他近50年的多学科职业生涯,” stated Samuel S. Holland, Algur H. Meadows Dean at The Meadows School of the Arts. “We are grateful to Stewart for working with Meadows students, 我们知道谁会受到斯图尔特的轨迹的启发，并在自己的实践中发扬他的榜样.”
“Musicians and artists of all kinds are compelled by an innate drive. Constant reinvention is how I recommend to channel that drive. 我很荣幸能获得梅多斯奖，并很高兴能与梅多斯的学生分享我作为鼓手和作曲家的职业生涯中学到的一切. I can’t wait to join the Meadows Symphony Orchestra on stage,” stated Stewart Copeland.
In addition to being the founding member of The Police, Copeland’s career as a composer began in 1983, 当时弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉(Francis Ford Coppola)委托他为电影《威尼斯人娱乐城》(Rumble Fish)创作配乐,” for which Copeland received a Golden Globe nomination. 他广泛的电影和电视作品包括奥利弗·斯通的电影《威尼斯人娱乐城》和《威尼斯人博彩》(1988)。, and the cult series “Dead Like Me” (2003-2004). 科普兰为PlayStation上的热门游戏《威尼斯人博彩》(1998)和它的几个续集配乐. 他的音乐会作品包括达拉斯交响乐团委托的《威尼斯人博彩》(2011)和弗雷德·尼布洛1925年无声电影《威尼斯人娱乐城》的管弦乐配乐.” In the worlds of ballet and opera, his credits include commissions by the San Francisco Ballet, the Seattle Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, among many others.
Copeland received his most recent Grammy awards in 2022 and 2023.
周二，斯图尔特·科普兰和梅多斯交响乐团将在迈耶森2024演出, April 16 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (2301 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201) are available from the Meadows Box Office, or can be purchased here.
About the Meadows Award
梅多斯奖由梅多斯学院颁发，由梅多斯基金会资助, first conferred in 1983. 梅多斯奖的一个重要组成部分是校园驻留，艺术家直接与梅多斯学校的学生一起工作. Previous winners of the Meadows Award, also formerly known as the Meadows Prize, include choreographer Martha Graham (1982); playwright Arthur Miller (1991); lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim (1994); trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis (1997); actress Angela Lansbury (1999); Grammy-winning contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird and New York-based public arts organization Creative Time (2010); playwright and performer Will Power and choreographer Shen Wei, artistic director of New York-based Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011); Tony-winning playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, artistic director of Dublin-based Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (2012); violist Nadia Sirota and sociopolitical artist Tania Bruguera (2013); choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (2014); the Detroit-based performance artist collective Complex Movements, and Lear deBessonet and The Public Theater’s Public Works program (2015); southwest curatorial initiative New Cities, Future Ruins (2016); and the arts investment initiative CultureBank (2018).
About SMU Meadows
新加坡管理大学于1969年正式成立，并以捐助者Algur H. Meadows, 梅多斯艺术学院是美国最重要的艺术教育机构之一. 梅多斯学院提供本科和研究生学位，这是一个不同寻常的艺术组合-视觉艺术(艺术), art history and creative computation), performing (dance, music and theatre) and communications (advertising; film and media arts; corporate communication and public affairs; and journalism)—as well as a preeminent program in arts management and arts entrepreneurship. The goal of the Meadows School, as a comprehensive educational institution, is to prepare students to meet the demands of professional careers. 该学院在开发创新的外展和社区参与项目方面处于领先地位, 通过发展艺术之间的联系，挑战学生在当地和全球范围内发挥作用, entrepreneurship and change. Meadows is also a convener for the arts in North Texas, 作为新的合作和提供关键的行业研究的催化剂. Learn more at julihui168.com.