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2011 Tennessee Arts Academy Award Recipients

The Tennessee Arts Academy confers awards on individuals each year in a variety of categories during the Bravo Banquet ceremony and the Finale luncheon. The categories and previous award winners are listed below.

Marvin Hamlisch

Distinguished Service Award

Wednesday Evening Banquet  

Marvin Hamlisch's music career is notable for its great versatility and substance. As a composer, Hamlisch has won virtually every major award possible: four Emmys, four Grammys, three Golden Globes, three Oscars, a Pulitzer Prize, and a Tony. For Broadway he has written the music for They're Playing our Song, as well as his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, which received a Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer of many motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, for which he received his third Oscar. Hamlisch holds the position of principal pops conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Seattle Symphony. He was the musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1994 U.S. and England concert tour as well as the television special, "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" for which he received two of his Emmys. Hamlisch is a graduate of the Julliard School of Music and Queens College (where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree). He believes in the power of music to bring people together. "Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can."

Flowerree Galetovic

Lifetime Achievement Award

Wednesday Evening Banquet 

Flowerree Galetovic is an art instructor at Bearden High School in Knox County, Tennessee, where she also serves as chair of the fine arts department. She is a member of the National Art Education Association, is a frequent presenter for its annual conference, has recently served as the president of the Tennessee Art Education Association, and was a member of the Tennessee Department of Education's High School Art Standards Curriculum Revision Committee in 2009 and 2010. Galetovic has received many awards and accolades in honor of her teaching achievements. She was named Knox County's Secondary Teacher of the Year in 2009 and was also a Tennessee Teacher of the Year Finalist for the 2009-2010 school year. Her artwork has been on view at numerous exhibitions across Tennessee, including shows at Maryville College, the Dogwood Arts Festival, the Memphis College of Art, and private galleries. She is the author of Stimulate: Using National Gallery of Art Islamic Resources, a text written for the AP Central College Board, and was a contributing art educator for the book Experience Printmaking through Davis Publications.

Joe Giles

Lifetime Achievement Award

Friday Finale Luncheon

Joe Giles is founder of the Tennessee Arts Academy and former director of the Arts Education Program of the Tennessee Department of Education. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music education from Austin Peay State University and has done additional study at Peabody College, Middle Tennessee State University, and Fisk University. Mr. Giles is past president of the Southern Division of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) and of the National Council of State Supervisors of Music. He taught music in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools for twenty-two years, has taken choral groups on concert tours in Europe, and has received gold and silver medals in international music festivals.

Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award

is conferred upon a Tennessee teacher, whose life's work is widely acknowledged to have positively influenced the role of the arts in education, thereby benefiting the students of Tennessee's schools.

Lorin Hollander Award

is given to a Tennessean whose influence has benefited arts education in general and/or the Tennessee Arts Academy in particular. This award is named in honor of internationally renowned concert pianist Lorin Hollander, a special friend of the Academy.

Distinguished Service Award

is presented to an American whose work stands as a monument to the importance of the arts in the lives of all people.

Spirit of Tennessee Award

recognizes an individual or group whose work exemplifies the highest standards of artistic endeavor and brings positive recognition to the place of the arts in the lives of Tennesseans.

Partner in the Arts Award

honors an individual or business whose generosity and support have contributed in sustained and significant ways to the success of the Tennessee Arts Academy's mission.

Previous Recipients:

Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award		Lorin Hollander Award		Distinguished Service Award
1995   Joseph Edward Hodges, Crossville 1996   Freda Kenner, Bells 1996   Sue Blass, Jackson 1997   Elizabeth Rike, Knoxville 1997   Celia Bachelder, Kingsport 1998   James Charles Mills, Johnson City 1998   Gene Crain, Memphis 1999   Patricia Brown, Knoxville 2000   Robert Pletcher, Nashville 2000   Kathy Hawk, Kingsport 2001   Tommie Pardue, Memphis 2001   Tully Daniel, Memphis (awarded posthumously) 2004   Marilyn DuBrisk, Greeneville 2004   Bobby Jean Frost, Nashville 2005   Nancy Boone-Allsbrook, Murfreesboro 2005   Sally Crain Jager, Cookeville 2006   Michael Combs, Knoxville 2006   Jean R. Thomas, Chattanooga 2006   Mitchell Van Metre, Knoxville 2007   David Logan, Johnson City 2010   James R. Holcomb, Memphis		1994   Cavit Cheshier, education executive 1995   Steven Cohen, state senator 1996   Nellie McNeil, teacher and advocate 1997   Tom L. Naylor, music educator and administrator 1998   T. Earl Hinton, music educator 1999   Jane Walters, educator and arts advocate 2000   Martha McCrory, music educator 2001   Solie Fott, music educator 2008   Jeanette Crosswhite, arts education administrator		1994   Charles Strouse, Broadway composer 1995   Charles Fowler, arts educator, writer and advocate 1996   Jerome Lawrence, playwright 1997   Lorin Hollander, concert pianist and philosopher 2000   Scott Ellis, Broadway theatre director 2000   Mary Costa, opera singer 2001   Sheldon Harnick, Broadway composer 2001   Tina Packer, Shakespeare actor and director 2003   Bob McGrath, singer and host of Sesame Street 2005   John Simon, author and arts critic 2005   Dean Pitchford, songwriter, lyricist, screenwriter, and director 2006   Andre Thomas, choral conductor 2007   Joe Dipietro, Broadway playwright and lyricist 2008   Henry Krieger, Broadway composer
Spirit of Tennessee Award		Partner in the Arts Award
2000   Wilma Dykeman, writer 2001   Jim Crabtree, theatre director and writer 2002   Alice Swanson, arts education administrator and advocate 2003   George Mabry, choral conductor 2006   Dolph Smith, visual artist 2009   George S. Clinton, Hollywood film composer 2009   Jackie Nichols, theatre administrator 2009   Michael Stern, symphony conductor 2010   Cherry Jones, Broadway actress		2008   Steve Spiegel, president of Theatrical Rights Worldwide