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Robe iForte wins Parnelli Award for Indispensable Lighting Technology

The Robe Lighting iForte luminaire, currently its most powerful LED innovation, has won a Parnelli Award for Indispensable Lighting Technology. The 2024 Parnelli Awards - organized by Timeless Communications Corp., publishers of PLSN and FOH magazines - were presented at a gala event staged during the 2024 NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) expo at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.

The ceremony honored the talent, technologies, and ingenuity behind the most creative, ambitious, exciting, and dramatic concert, show and touring productions from the last twelve months across twenty-five Awards. Robe’s 2024 Parnelli Award was collected by North America’s chief sales officer Craig Burros and product manager Peter Moore.

“We are delighted to win this Parnelli - a big shout-out to our brilliant R&D crew, the sales teams getting the product out there, and of course, all the creative designers, programmers, and rental companies who have spec’d and invested in iFortes, ensuring that it earned the ‘Indispensable’ title”, commented Robe Lighting s.r.o.’s CEO Josef Valchar.

Other winners on the night included Silent House’s Baz Halpin who picked up the Production Design of the Year for his Pink “Summer Carnival” tour aesthetic; and Solotech who won Lighting Company of the Year for servicing Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour”.

Awarded for the first time was the Nook Schoenfeld Lighting Designer of the Year Award, which went to Rob Koenig for his work with Metallica. The award is named after the late Nook Schoenfield, long-term editor of PLSN magazine, as well as a prolific lighting designer, technology lover, and all-round passionate industry maverick who sadly passed away last year.

Lighting Director of the Year went to Carter Fulghum for his work on Shinedown, and completing the Visual section of 2024 Parnelli’s was Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year which went to Music Matters Productions. Pyro/Special Effects Company of the Year was won by Image SFX/Disturbed.

Robe’s iForte has already won several awards including a 2023 PLASA Innovation Award and is a flagship product in the Czech Republic manufacturers’ iSeries range. The iForte LTX WB - a long throw LED wash beam designed for stadium shows, concerts and all events and spectaculars where serious intensity is needed across massive distances - is currently the brightest fixture on the market.

Pictured: Robe North America’s product manager Peter Moore with lighting designer Rob Koenig, winner of the 2024 Parnelli Award for Lighting Designer of the Year. (Photo: Kathy Eddy)

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