KENNETH ANDREWS
North Country Citation
When we want to hear great music performed live in
our communities, when we want to be transported on the wings of sound
to other places and other times, you lead us with the energetic wave
of your baton and the eloquent commentary from the podium.
You
have been the only music director and conductor for the Orchestra
of Northern New York since its founding in 1988, putting together
themed concerts featuring everything from Mozart and Beethoven to
Copeland and “Stars and Stripes Forever,” performed by
musicians from throughout the Northeast and Canada who drive several
hours to rehearse and perform in concert halls, churches and other
venues in small towns from Lake Ontario to Lake Champlain. And
let us not forget such auxiliary activities as the orchestra’s
famous “Bach’s Lunches.”
You have also served as
music director and conductor of numerous other orchestras, and guest
conducted such orchestras as the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the
American String Teachers' Association Orchestra. You are a frequent
guest conductor across the U.S. and Canada, and are adjunct conductor
with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
On the other side of the podium,
you are also an accomplished flutist, having been associate principal
flute with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and principal and guest
principal with several other orchestras. You have performed under
the batons of renowned conductors Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Jean
Martinon, Charles DuToit and others throughout the United States,
Canada and Europe, and have been featured on public radio and television.
Indicative
of your belief in the value of passing musical skill and knowledge
on to coming generations, you are professor of flute at the Crane
School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, and
music director and conductor for the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra.
For
your abiding dedication to bringing live classical music to its home
region, St. Lawrence University is honored to present to you its
2008 North Country Citation.
