The Handel and Haydn Society is recognized
as a leader and innovator in providing music education to
public school students. The Society established the Vocal
Apprenticeship Program in 1994 to identify and nurture those
youngsters with special talent whose families lack the financial
resources to pursue private instruction. The Candace MacMillen
Achtmeyer Award extends the Society's support to an outstanding
senior who has participated for at least two years in the
Vocal Apprenticeship Program (High School Soloists).
The award was named in the memory of Candace
MacMillen Achtmeyer in 2001. A member of the Handel and Haydn
Society Board starting in 1993, Candace was a member of the
Education Committee, where she voiced passionate opinions
about the Society's responsibility to the community and the
children in particular. We will miss her quiet yet persuasive
leadership, her unfailing support for the Society and its
mission, and her enduring vision for our future.
For more information, please contact
Robin Baker, Director of Education at (617) 262–1815, x26
or .
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more about the winners of the
Candace MacMillen Achtmeyer Award
