The Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce has announced the recipients of its 1995 Honors in the Arts Awards.
They include Ballet West artistic director John Hart, visual artist A. Valoy Eaton, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition found-er/artistic director Paul C. Pollei, pianist and teacher Gladys Gladstone Rosenberg and Utah Power/PacifiCorp Foundation.The awards will be presented Jan. 24 at an evening dinner and reception at Abravanel Hall. In addition each honoree will receive a portrait from Don Busath Photography, a duplicate of which will be placed on permanent display in the corridors of the hall.
- THE RAINBOW COLLECTION, a Bountiful area quartet, received the eighth-place award among quartets at the Sweet Adelines International 48th annual competition in Reno, Nev., early in November. Members of the quartet are Beth Bruce, Cathi Yor-ga-son, Tori Postma and Lynda Mills.
- FOUR BALLET STUDENTS from Salt Lake City have been selected to tour nationally in "The Nutcracker" with principal dancers of the Kirov Ballet. All are students at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C.
The young dancers are Taryn Gagon, 17, now in her fifth year at the academy, and her brother Brandon, 13, in his third year; also Breanna Herd, 14, and Casey Herd, 16, another brother and sister, who entered the Kirov Academy this year. Performances are scheduled in Miami Beach, Fla., and San Jose, Calif.
- GRANTS OF $500 were awarded recently by the Utah Arts Council to 17 Utah artists. Those receiving awards are Paula Last, Hurricane, theater; Linda Nowlin-Heath, Salt Lake City, visual; Terrance O'Toole, Salt Lake City, photography; Joseph Ostraff, Provo, visual; Morris Rosenzweig, Salt Lake City, music; Trent Harris, Salt Lake City, film; Paul Heath, Salt Lake City, visual; Logan Hebner, Springdale, literary; and John Hess, Salt Lake City, crafts.
Also Brian T. Kershisnik, Kanosh, visual; Greg Schulte, Logan, visual; Tom Shults, American Fork, music; Ranjini Aguirre, Salt Lake City, graphic design; Alison Anne Berkey, Logan, sculpture; Stan Funicelli, Salt Lake City, music; Mel Halbach, Salt Lake City, film; and Marina Harris, costume design.
Such awards are made available three times annually, to individual artists with unique professional development needs. Applications for the next phase of individual artist grants are now being accepted, with a deadline of Feb. 1, 1995. For information, contact the Utah Arts Council, 533-5895.