The Creole Romantics 
Wins Top Honors for 2004 Production

The judges' panel has awarded The Creole Romantics the 2004 Fine Arts Radio International® Awards Grand Prize in the radio producers' contest for outstanding achievement in classical music education in a radio program airing in 2004.

Produced by Roger Cooper at WILL-FM/University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, The Creole Romantics series has aired on public radio station WILL-FM and other classical stations around the U.S., syndicated through American Public Media.

2004 Fine Arts Radio International Contest First Runner-Up

TGIF!-Thank Goodness It's Familiar! (89.5 Classical KMFA/Austin)

TGIF! producer David Ford is no stranger to the Fine Arts Radio International Awards: Mind Your Music won the grand prize in the 2001 competition along with honorable mention for The Basics.

TGIF! has aired regularly on KMFA/Austin as well as on WFDD/Winston-Salem (NC).

The annual Fine Arts Radio International® Awards contest recognizes radio programs or radio series containing a substantial amount of classical music education. Entries need not to be instructional in nature, but the educational component cannot not be incidental to the overall tone of the program or series. Check out our Classical Music Education Clearinghouse page for valuable links to programs and educational supplements.

Fine Arts Radio International Lifetime Achievement Awards (for music education) have been bestowed on Karl Haas (2000), Peter Schickele (2001), Martin Bookspan (2002), Leonard Slatkin (2003) and Bill McGlaughlin (2004).

The new Karl Haas Prize for Music Education (2005) has been award to Classcial Kids, produced by The Children's Group, a Canadian-based producer of children's audio and video materials.