Eric Peterson honored at the American Prize in Conducting competition

Eric Peterson (MM ’87, Horn), conductor of the Savoynet Performing Group, has received a Special Judges’ Citation in the opera/operetta division of The American Prize in Conducting competition, 2013. Peterson was honored for Stylistic Excellence in the Performance of Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas and was selected from applications reviewed this summer from all across the United States. The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit, competitions unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings.