Recognition
The GSC was one of twelve orchestras honored in 1991 with the annual ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming.
Former Music Director Gordon Johnson was selected to conduct the Kumamoto Symphony as part of a Sister/State Exchange program with the government of Japan.
Chorale Conductor Shauneen Garner was one of seven American choral conductors selected to study at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London.
The GSC was selected to be the performing orchestra and choir for the 1986 “Amy Grant Christmas Special,” aired nationally on NBC Television.
The League of the GSC won the Flathead Arts Council Arts Education Award in 1989.
Three GSC volunteers have been named Flathead County’s Volunteer of the Year – Connie Heckathorn, Bill Kuehn, and Dorothy Laird.
The GSC hosted the 1989 and 2001 Regional Arts Conference, sponsored by the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras and the Montana Alliance for Arts Education.
The GSC received its first National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1991, followed by another in 2011 and receives N.E.A. and Montana Arts Council grants annually.
The GSC has performed the world premiere of many compositions, one which the GSC commissioned in honor of its 10th anniversary season. The most recent is a 2011 commission of a piece by Mark Armanini of Vancouber BC.
The GSC hosted the National Symphony Orchestra Residency with concerts, recitals, and education programs throughout NW Montana.
Music Director John Zoltek was named the Artistic Director for the inaugural Montana Power Summer Symphony concert.
Former League President Dorothy Laird was elected to the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Volunteer Council and served as President of the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras.
GSC volunteers Connie Heckathorn and Martha Groenke were named the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras’ Volunteer of the Year. In 2009, Wilson Higgs received the same honor.
GSC Music Director John Zoltek was selected to conduct the Latvian National Symphony in Riga, Latvia. GSC, one of seven Montana arts organizations, awarded Wallace Readers Digest Foundation “Building Arts Partnerships” grant.
