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Dear Meira,
We are honored to inform you that you have been selected as winner of The American Prize Charles Ives Award in Chamber Music, 2024 in the professional instrumental division, for “Ocean Calling.” Congratulations!
We hope that your selection as a winner of The American Prize will be as much of an inspiration to you as your music was to us. May it help bring additional attention to your considerable musical gifts.
Thus began The American Prize’s message to Meira about her having been given this prestigious award.
Navona Records released the complete Ocean Calling album, available for download or streaming. Scored for two pianos, the trilogy — Waves and Currents, From the Depths and The Giant Blue — speaks to the vast majesty of the aquatic world and the many challenges that face it. With virtuoso pianists Phillip Bush and Elizabeth Loparits, Ocean Calling is Meira’s impassioned plea on behalf of the ocean, Earth’s greatest natural resource.
In her thank you message to those associated with the project, she wrote, “…thanks to the majestic Ocean and the magnificent and fantastical creatures and plants within it. Without you, dear Ocean, there would be no life on this planet, including our own.”