CLEVELAND, March 12, 2025: Earlier this week, the New York-based cultural honors society announced the recipients of its 2025 Awards in Music. Among the 17 winners were CIM alumni Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (MM ’00, Erb/Pastor), Gabriel Novak (BM ’18, Fitch), and Arseniy Gusev (BM ’21, Fitch/Babayan).
Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. He is a 2022 Chickasaw Hall of Fame inductee and a 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2021, he was appointed a Cultural Ambassador for the U. S. Department of State. He is a three-time commissioned recipient from the American Composers Forum, a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program recipient, a Creativity Ambassador for the State of Oklahoma, and an Emmy Award-winner for his work on the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority documentary The Science of Composing. His music was also featured in the HBO series Westworld.
Tate won the Wise-Hinrichsen Award, a $5,000 prize supporting publication of a work established by the C.F. Peters Corporation and Wise Music.
The music awards will be presented alongside the architecture, art, and literature awards at the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s annual Ceremonial in May.
Cleveland Institute of Music
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