Apogee is Excellence in the Art of Performance

Scholarship Awards

~ Scholar Laureates

Artistry Awards

~ Artist Laureates

Mastership Awards

~ Master Laureates

Institutional Grants

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Apogee Award Laureates

"We are delighted to partner with Apogee in recognizing and supporting Ukraine's most promising young artists, and look forward to all that we can achieve together for many years to come.”
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Eugeni Lisuk, Director of the Stolyarsky School in Odessa, Ukraine

Scholars:

(Award Types: Art Forms, Class Levels and Years Received)

Agramakov, Vladislav: Ukraine, Stolyarsky State Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2005/2006, 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Piano 2006/2007)
Alfimova, Yana: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001, 2002/2003)
Alizade, Chinare, Bolshoi Ballet Academy: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Anum-Dorhuso, Akim: Ukraine, Stolyarsky State Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2008/2009) (Performance Award: Music - Piano 2006/2007)
Averina, Aksina: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000, 2000/2001)
Azimov, Mukhammad: Tajikistan, Perm State Ballet School (Regional Award, Tajikistan Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Beloborodov, Alexander: Russia, Perm State Ballet School, Vaganova (Kirov/Mariinsky) Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006)
Bielinsky, Nikolai: Russia (Regional Award, Chukotka Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Bochkova, Darya: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Boyarinov, Pavel: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000)
Chebykina, Yana: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004)
Chernyshov, Fyodor: Russia (Performance Award: Music - Flute 2005/2006)
Chetverikov, Nikita: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Chubachin, Arseniy: Russia, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Music Academy (Merit Scholar: Music - Cello 2006-2007)
Dekhtyaruk, Bogdan: Ukraine, Demutsky State Music School (Uman), Stolyarsky State Music School (Odessa), (Regional Award, Cherkassy Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts: Music - Trumpet 2005/2006) (Merit Scholar: Music, Trumpet - 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009)
Dyomin, Stepan: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2002/2003, 2004/2005)
Efimov, Klim: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Efremov, Dmitry: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Evlanov, Yegor: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Gronic, Simion: Moldova (Merit Scholar: Music - Fluer 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Fluer 2006/2007, 2007/2008; Fluer and Trumpet 2008/2009)
Gewirtzman, Tomer: Israel (Israel Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts: Music - Piano 2006/2007)
Huang, Nansong: China (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2007/2008)
Ismailov, Rinat: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001, 2001/2002)
Ivanova, Klavdiya: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004)
Kaganovskiy, Artur: United States, School of American Ballet and Manhattan School of Music (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1997/1998) (Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 1997/1998)
Kazakova, Elena: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Khmylov, Alexander: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002)
Khromushin, Yegor: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Kirichika, Alexander: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001)
Kiryukhin, Pavel: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001, 2001/2002)
Klein, Vitaly: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001)
Kochnev, Vladimir: Ukraine (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Piano 2006/2007)
Kokin, Evgeny: Russia, Ulan Ude State Ballet School (Regional Award, Buryatia Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Kolesnikova, Diana: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004)
Kovalyova, Maria: Ukraine, Stolyarsky State Music School (Performance Award: Music - Piano and Composition 2006/2007)
Kozlova, Tatyana: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2002/2003)
Kramarenko, Maria: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Kruchkov, Mikhail: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001)
Kurochkin, Vadim: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Lantratov, Vladislav: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002)
Lavrinyenko, Anna: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Vaganova (Kirov/Mariinsky) Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Lisuk, Alexander: Ukraine, Stolyarsky Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Cello 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2008/2009) (Performance Award: Music - Cello 2006/2007)
Maiboroda, Sergey: Ukraine, Stolyarsky Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Viiolin 2005/2006) (Performance Award: Music - Violin 2006/2007)
Maryenin, Maxim: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2002/2003, 2005/2006)
Matyukhin, Gyorgy: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001)
Menshikova, Maria: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006)
Mishina, Maria: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Mukhametislamov, Arseniy: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000, 2000/2001)
Muntagirov, Vadim: Russia, Perm State Ballet School, Royal Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005; World Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Myasnikov, Boris: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000, 2000/2001)
Naziullan, Artur: Russia, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Music Academy (Merit Scholar: Music - Clarinet 2006/2007)
Naumova, Anna: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Nikituk, Sergey: Russia, Stolyarsky Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2005/2006)
Osipova, Natalya: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Ovcharenko, Vadim: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Ovchinnikova, Ksenya: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2002/2003, 2004/2005, 2005/2006)
Parienko, Yanina: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Sazonov, Evgeny: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001)
Scherbakova, Anna: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001, 2002/2003)
Sedovolosiy, Roman: Ukraine, Kharkov State Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Violin 2006/2007)
Semenyenko, Aleksei: Ukraine Stolyarsky State Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Violin 2006/2007)
Sharopanovskaya, Yana: Ukraine, Stolyarsky Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 2005/2006, 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Violin 2006/2007)
Shin, Olga: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001)
Shirinkina, Marina: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2002/2003)
Shumakov, Vladislav: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2002/2003)
Smirnov, Dmitrij: Russia, Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 2005/2006, World Scholar: Music - Violin 2006/2007)
Stephen Gladney: USA, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (Merit Scholar: Music - Saxophone 2007/2008)
Surov, Maxim: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001)
Taranov, Alexander: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006)
Tikhomirova, Anna: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Tovstyuk, Taras: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001, 2002/2003)
Tsivileva, Olga: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004)
Vdovin, Igor: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2003/2004)
Vinogradova, Maria: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Volkova, Nina: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Vorobyova, Elena: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2000/2001)
Vysochina, Anna: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Wang, Chun: China, Central Conservatory Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2007/2008)
Wang, Xiao: China, Central Conservatory Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Er Hu 2007/2008)
Wassilevschii, Yurii: Belarus, Republican Educational Complex College of the Belarussian Academy of Music (Regional Award, Belarus Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts: Music - Violin 2006/2007; Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 2008/2009)
Zadorozhnuik, Olga: Ukraine, Stolyarsky Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Piano 2005/2006, 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Piano 2006/2007)
Zavarov, Roman: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Boston Ballet School, University of the Arts (Merit Scholar: 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2001/2002, World Scholar: 2002/2003, 2003/2004)
Zhololova, Malika: Ukraine, Stolyarsky State Music School (Merit Scholar: Music - Violin 2006/2007) (Performance Award: Music - Violin 2006/2007)
Zharov, Dmitry: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Zhyoltikov, Nikolai: Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 2001/2002)
Zhuravlova, Anna: Russia, Perm State Ballet School (Merit Scholar: Dance - Ballet 1999/2000, 2000/2001)

Window on the Apogee World

Simion Gronic, currently the world's youngest Apogee Merit Scholar, is shown performing on four different national instruments during this live outtake from the Foundation’s 2006 Odessa International Music Festival.

Gronic is a virtuoso of the trumpet as well as of a host of national instruments. In 2006, he became the first Apogee Award laureate from Moldova, where he studies in the country's leading music school.

For more information, see Apogee's 3 October 2006 news release.

Note: the structure of Apogee's award and grant programs was formalized in 2005. Because some awards and grants had different titles and/or were accounted for in periods other than academic years or performance seasons in prior years, and because some of the awards listed above were provided by other persons and entities before the time of Apogee's existence and were later grandfathered into Apogee Awards programs in order to assist those beneficiaries further, all entries prior to 2005 have been designated according to their approximate correllary under Apogee's current programs.