BCAC's Heart of the Arts and
Lifetime Achievement Awards, 2011
The Broome County Arts Council's 8th Annual Heart of the Arts Award
Celebration is taking place at the Forum Theatre Recital Hall in downtown Binghamton,
beginning at 6:30pm, Thursday, September 29th. The winner of the 2011 Heart of the Arts
Award for Lifetime Achievement is master piano technician and piano tuner LANCE G. HILL
for his long-term contributions to the arts in Broome County. For their more recent contributions,
this year's Heart of the Arts Award honorees are Roberson Museum Executive Director
TERRY McDONALD, Tri-Cities Opera General Director REED SMITH and a joint award to actors
JUDY McMAHON and HEIDI WEEKS, co-founders of the theatrical group S.T.A.R., Southern Tier Actors Read.
Actor/photographer Bill Gorman, who won the Heart of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009,
is hosting this year's Celebration which is free, open to the public, and will feature tribute
performances by notable, local personalities.
Read Barb Van Atta's profiles of this year's HOTA and Lifetime Recipients at the
Broome Arts Mirror.
2011 HEART OF THE ARTS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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Lance G. Hill
Concert Piano Tuner/Technician, Classical Music Broadcaster
www.classicalmusicguide.com
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Terry McDonald
Executive Director, Roberson Museum & Science Center |
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Judy McMahon & Heidi Weeks
Co-Founders, Southern Tier Actors Read |
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Reed Smith
General Director, Tri-Cities Opera |
Heart of the Arts and Lifetime Achievement Chronology
2010
Lifetime Achievement Award:
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Margaret S. "Pokey" Crocker, Executive Director, The Discovery Center of the Southern Tier
Heart of the Arts Awards:
- William "Billy" Carroll, IATSE Local #54 Business Agent and Crew Chief
- Lou Ligouri, Executive Director, Endicott Performing Arts Center
- Pam Ondrusek, President, SRO Productions III
2009
Lifetime Achievement Award:
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Bill Gorman, Performer, Photographer, Advocate for the Arts
Heart of the Arts Awards:
- Tim Gleason, Artistic Director, KNOW Theatre
- Naima Kradjian, Executive Director, Goodwill Theatre, Inc.
- Bill & Johanne Pesce, Co-founders, Windsor Whip Works Art Gallery
2008
Lifetime Achievement Award:
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Peyton Hibbit, Co-founder & Artistic
Director Emeritus, Tri-Cities Opera
Heart of the Arts Awards:
- Bruce Borton, Director of Graduate Studies in Music, Binghamton University
- Yvonne Lucia, Artist, arts advocate & educator
- Paul Stapel, Former Executive Director, The ART Mission & Theatre, musician, impressario
2007
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
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Armondo Dellasanta, Painter
- Bill Nurse, Lighting Technician
Heart of the Arts Awards:
- Andy Horowitz, President & Director, Galumpha International Touring Dance Company
- Orazio Salati, Painter, Arts Educator, Gallery owner
- Stephen Wilson, Executive Director, Binghamton Philharmonic
2006
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
- Anne Boyer Cotton, Founder, Madrigal Choir of
Binghamton
- Dick & Noni Smith, Director/Actor, Cider Mill
Playhouse
Heart of the Arts Awards:
- Don DeMauro, Director, Spool Mfg. Contemporary
Artspace
- Patrick Foti, Artistic Director, Endicott Performing
Arts Center
- Larry Kassan, Director, Rod Serling Video Festival
2005
Lifetime Achievement Awards
- Albert Nocciolino, Theatre Producer, President, NAC
Enterprises, Ltd./Broadway Theatre League
- Marcella Swartz, Artist & Arts Educator
Heart of the Arts Awards
- Sherry Eaton, President, Gorgeous Washington Street
Association
- Jose Luis Novo, Conductor/Musical Director,
Binghamton Philharmonic
- Ellen Kodadek, CEO, Southern Tier Celebrates!
**2004 Inaugural Heart of the Arts Awards**
- John Bielenberg, co-founder Cider Mill Playhouse,
former chairman Binghamton University Theatre Department
- Irene Kanazawich, Pianist/Accompanist
- Ted Whipple, Painter
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