{"id":8879,"date":"2023-01-03T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2023-01-03T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T02:37:29","slug":"2023-awapa-recipients-announced-frank-ticheli-julie-giroux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/2023-awapa-recipients-announced-frank-ticheli-julie-giroux\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 AWAPA Recipients Announced &#8211; Julie Giroux &#038; Frank Ticheli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent NBA General Membership meeting at the 2022 Midwest Clinic, it was announced that Julie Giroux and Frank Ticheli will be the 2023 recipients of the National Band Association Academy of Wind and Percussive Arts award. \u00a0Both will be formally recognized at the NBA General Membership meeting during the 2023 Midwest Clinic. \u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/awards-recognition\/\">Academy of Wind and Percussive Arts<\/a> (AWAPA) award was established for the purpose of recognizing those individuals who have made truly significant and outstanding contributions to furthering the excellence of bands and of band music. It is not limited to band directors, but to anyone whose contributions are determined to be so outstanding that they deserve and warrant honor and recognition. The nine inch silver \u201cAWAPA\u201d figure is designed to be the \u201cOscar\u201d of the band world. \u00a0The NBA extends congratulations to both Julie Giroux and Frank Ticheli.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8869 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julie-Giroux-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julie-Giroux-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julie-Giroux-93x125.jpg 93w, https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julie-Giroux.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliegiroux.org\/bio-discs\">Read about Julie Giroux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.usc.edu\/frank-ticheli\/\">Read about Frank Ticheli<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8317 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ticheli-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Frank Ticheli\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ticheli-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ticheli-84x125.jpeg 84w, https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ticheli.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent NBA General Membership meeting at the 2022 Midwest Clinic, it was announced that Julie Giroux and Frank Ticheli will be the 2023 recipients of the National Band Association Academy of Wind and Percussive Arts award. \u00a0Both will be formally recognized at the NBA General Membership meeting during the 2023 Midwest Clinic. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8882,"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions\/8882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalbandassociation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}