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Simon Estes, adjunct professor of music at Iowa State University and F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Artist in Residence, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona’s opera house), from Spain.
The honor is "awarded in recognition of your brilliant artistic career and acheivements worldwide, with performances of the most significant operatic characters and innumerable recordings. Likewise is is awarded in recognition of the esteem you have always shown towards the Gran Teatre del Liceu and its audiences, who recall with great satisfaction the countless performances in which you played the starring role with utmost professionalism and artistic sensitivity."