Conductor LIBI LEBEL and the TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA have achieved second place in The American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for the Performance of American Music competition, in the community division, for their live recording of Howard Hanson’s “Merry Mount Suite”. Conductor LIBI LEBEL and the TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA were selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States. The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit, competitions unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. The American Prize has attracted hundreds of qualified contestants from all fifty states since its founding, has awarded more than $50,000 in prizes in all categories since 2010, and is presented annually in many areas of the performing arts.