RECIPIENTS OF PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION AND MARTHA HILL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Recipients of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts and Composers Awards have been announced. The three recipients of the composers awards are Emily Howard, Evan Parker, and Janek Schaefer. The five visual-arts-prize recipients are Alison Wilding, Duncan Campbell, Marcus Coates, Simon Martin, and Terry Smith. Spread in equal installments over three years, the sixty-seven-thousand-dollar awards are among the most generous in England. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the awards for visual arts.

In other news, the New York Times_ reports that Ethel Winter, a longtime disciple of Martha Graham and a former director of the Juilliard School’s dance department, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Martha Hill Lifetime Achievement Award. Winter, who taught at Juilliard for fifty years, studied with Hill at Bennington College before joining the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1944. Winter was the first dancer Graham chose to take over her role in many productions, including “Salem Shore,” “Night Journey,” “Hérodiade,” and “Frontier.” She will receive the award at a presentation hosted by the Martha Hill Dance Fund on December 1.