Awards and Honors, Faculty News
Hand Honored with Classical Music Award
Bennington guitar teacher and composer has earned a 2008 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award from the for his arrangements and performance on flutist 's new album, .
The award, notes CRF, "is reserved for chamber music of the highest caliber".
As a composer, Hand's original scores have appeared in such films as , , and , as well as on television programs , , and , for which he won an Emmy Award in 1996. Most recently, his composition "Prayer", recorded by John Williams, was nominated for a Grammy Award.