Honorees

Legendary broadway star and playwright Tovah Feldshuh has won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre Critics Circle Award and the Helen Hayes Award and has received six Tony nominations and six Emmy nominations. Her play Golda’s Balcony is the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway. Jason Zinoman of The New York Times raved, “No one earns more laughs than the marvelous Tovah Feldshuh. Her diva-like flourishes are precisely timed, her entrances and exits designed for maximum impact.”

Hila Plitmann has performed on many notable albums, and continues to accumulate an impressive catalogue of virtuosic recordings: Hans Zimmer’s Grammy Award nominated soundtrack to The Da Vinci Code; Eric Whitacre’s Good Night Moon with the LSO; Oscar winner John Corigliano’s song-cycle Mr. Tambourine Man with the Buffalo Symphony (for which she won a ‘Best Classical Vocal Performance’ Grammy); Richard Danielpour’s Grammy Award winning recording The Passion of Yeshua, with Buffalo Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. 

An award-winning composer and recording artist since the age of five, Emily Bear has achieved groundbreaking success as a pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter. Her expertise and love for film and media scoring highlights her ability to move between musical styles and to communicate story through music.