Award Descriptions
Outstanding String Teacher Award
This award is designed to recognize string teachers with six or more years of teaching experience who have advanced the cause and level of string playing and teaching in the states of Pennsylvania and/or Delaware. Public and private school, as well as studio and college teachers are eligible for this award. Candidates are expected to demonstrate outstanding achievement in at least some of the following areas: teaching, performance, program building, clinics, workshops, master classes, coaching, etc. Nominees for this award must be members of PADESTA.
Outstanding New String/Orchestra Teacher Award
This award is designed to recognize string/orchestra teachers with one to five years of full-time teaching experience who have exhibited the highest levels of leadership, dedication, and achievement in public or private schools in the state of Pennsylvania and/or Delaware. Candidates are expected to have demonstrated excellence in at least one of the following areas: teaching, program building, coaching, advocacy, etc. Nominees for this award must be members of PADESTA.
Orchestra Director of the Year Award
Nominees must be currently teaching in a public or private school, or be directing a youth orchestra. The candidate must have demonstrated outstanding achievement as an orchestra teacher and conductor, resulting in major advancement of that candidate’s program with documentation of unusual success. Nominees for this award must be members of PADESTA.
Distinguished Service Award (Individual)
Nominations will be considered for individuals or groups who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of string and/or orchestra education and performance in Pennsylvania and/or Delaware. Past recipients have included school administrators or supervisors who have supported string and/or orchestra programs to an extraordinary degree, as well as instrument repair persons, composers, conductors and others who have made a significant difference to string and/or orchestra programs.
Distinguished Service Award (Business/Organization)
This award is designed to recognize businesses and organizations that have provided extraordinary support and services to and for string and/or orchestra programs in Pennsylvania and/or Delaware.
Past Winners
Outstanding String Teacher
2008 - Helen Hower (Lewisburg ASD)
Outstanding New String/Orchestra Teacher
2008 - Johanna Hartman (Elizabethtown ASD)
Orchestra Director of the Year
2008 - Johannes Dietrich (Lebanon Valley College)
Distinguished Service Award (Individual)
2008 - Irene Guerriero (Colonial SD)
Distinguished Service Award (Business/Organization)
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