BW Composer in Residence and alumnus,
Clint Needham '04 is among 20 writers, dancers, musicians, performers or
playwrights in Cuyahoga County to win the prestigious
Community Partnership for Arts & Culture (CPAC) Creative Workforce Fellowship for 2014.
According to a CPAC news release, the Creative Workforce Fellowship program annually
recognizes "the leading lights of the region’s artistic community." Tom Schorgl, president and
CEO of the Community Partnership, told
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “It’s one of the more substantive
fellowship awards in the United States.”
Neeham will use the $20,000 fellowship to develop a new, large-scale composition for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and Verb Ballets for the spring of 2015.
Earlier this year, Needham
talked with Cool Cleveland about the growing BW Conservatory of Music
Composition program, in advance of BW's FOCUS Festival of Contemporary Music.
