University's Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award, 1983 for programming and sponsoring American Music Resident Conductor, Florida Philharmonic, 1991 to 1992 Married from 1944 - 1948 to his first wife, Elaine Shapiro. They had one child, Lee Silver born 1945, died 2001. Married from 1949 - 1950 to his second wife, Martha Jane Bucy of Lubbock, Texas, and they were divorced in 1950. There were no children from this union. Married from 1953 - 1992 to his third wife, Charlotte Barrier of Lubbock, Texas, and lived in Chattanooga, TN and Williamstown, MA. They had one child, Lisa Hegyi Raymond born in 1962. Married from 1994 - 2007 to his fourth wife, Nancy King Hegyi. Survived by widow, Nancy Hegyi, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, sister Louise Larson, daughter Lisa Hegyi Raymond, and grandchildren. Predeceased by son, Lee Silver, of Plainfield, VT Performances Hegyi, in his role as conductor/violinist, performed many world premieres, such as: Fredric Goossen, Litanies, Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, 1964 Jacob Druckman, Lamia, for soprano and orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, 1974 Carson Kievman, Second Symphony, "Resurrection", Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, 1991 Charles Wuorinen, Third Piano Concerto, Albany Symphony Orchestra, soloist, Garrick Ohlsson Malcolm Arnold, Eighth Symphony, Albany Symphony Orchestra, May 1979 Tobias Picker, The Encantadas, Albany Symphony Orchestra, 1983 Robert Starer, Quartet for piano, violin, viola, cello, Music in the Round, 1977 Hegyi performed works by an extensive number of American composers, including John Alden Carpenter, Henry Hadley, Leo Sowerby, Daniel Gregory Mason, Quincy Porter, Scott Lindroth, George W. Chadwick, Ezra Laderman, Horatio Parker, Lester Trimble, Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Michael Schelle, Tobias Picker, Irwin Bazelon, Francis Thorne, Charles Wuorinen, Jacob Druckman, Aaron Copland, George Crumb, Robert Parris, Sydney Hodkinson, Leonardo Balada, Carson Kievman, Frederic Goossen, Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein, Edward MacDowell, Morton Gould, Samuel Barber, William Schuman, Robert Ward, Wallingford Riegger. Quotes Reviews John Rockwell wrote in the New York Times "...it can be flatly said that the best performance (and the most unusually interesting piece, too) was Mr. Hegyi's account of Barber's one-movement symphony, which had its premiere in 1936, was revised in 1944 and championed by Artur Rodzinski and Bruno Walter. The score blends considerable passion with Barber's wonderfully characteristic arching lyricism. Mr. Hegyi, who has a good deal of experience with 20th-century American music, given the Albany Symphony's venturesome commitment to that cause, played it with a sure technical command that never got in the way of expressivity." Discography Carpenter/Hadley/Mason/Porter,