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Violinist Hilary Hahn has chosen the Philadelphia-based Project 440 as the beneficiary of her 2014 Dresden Music Festival’s Glashütte Original prize. The award recognises commitment to music education, and comes with a €25,000 cash element to be donated to an educational organisation of the recipient’s choice.
Project 440 does not teach music, but rather runs programmes that ‘draw on a shared love of music to help young people build essential life skills’, offering free after-school classes and an annual college fair for musicians.