THE 2003 ASCAP FOUNDATION MORTON GOULD YOUNG COMPOSER AWARDS
LEO KAPLAN AWARD WINNER 2003
Orianna Webb AGE: 28 TITLE: Xylem for Full Orchestra Duration: 5’ FROM: Akron, Ohio
Orianna holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Yale School of Music. Her music has recently been heard at the the Rock Hotel Pianofest Piano Bowl (NY), AugustArt (Raw Space Studios, NY), New Music New Haven, Chamber Music at Historic St. Peter's (Philaldelphia), the Cleveland Museum of Art's AKI Festival of New Music, and the International Double Reed Society. In addition to winning the highest honor in the Morton Gould Young Composer award, Xylem, was recently chosen by the Minnesota Orchestra for the 2002 Composers Institute. Her awards and honors include a First Prize in the International Alliance for Women in Music's Search for New Music, the Victor Herbert/ASCAP Award, and Yale's Maxwell Belding Scholarship. Additionally, her electronic media piece, Unearthing, premiered at AugustArt 2002 in New York. Orianna teaches music theory in Yale College, and is a co-founder and faculty member of the Young Composers Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She received a fellowship to attend the Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop where a piece of hers will be premiered by eighth blackbird this summer.
Judah has a B.A. in Music from Yale University and a Masters in Music in Composition from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 2002. His music has been heard on Radio Canada, at the National Opera Association, at the Curtis, Peabody, Juilliard, and Manhattan Schools of Music, and at the June in Buffalo, Bowdoin, and Aspen Summer Music Festivals. Honors include the Aspen Music Festival’s Jacob Druckman Award for Orchestral Composition. He was also a Winner of Auros Group for New Music's Composition Competition in 2002. Judah is on the Composition and Music Theory faculty at the Peabody Preparatory. This summer he will be a participant in the Music03 Festival at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Composition Fellow at the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.
Patrick Burke AGE: 29 TITLE: Compound Fracture for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion and Piano Duration: 7’ FROM: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Patrick is currently an M.M.A. candidate in composition at the Yale School of Music. He earned an M.M. in composition from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2001 and a B.M. in composition from Duquesne University. The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble commissioned Partick to compose All Possible Outcomes last year, which they premiered in July of 2002 under the direction of Kevin Noe. He attended the Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival in 2002, where he wrote Compound Fracture for eighth blackbird. His summer plans include composing an orchestra piece for the Yale Philharmonia.
Anthony Cheung AGE: 21 TITLE: The Varieties of Harmonic Experience for Full Orchestra Duration: 8’ FROM: San Francisco, California
Anthony is currently enrolled in Harvard University and will graduate in 2004. In addition to composing, he also conducts and is a pianist. Anthony was pianist for the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 1996 to 2000. He has also taught theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Summer Music West program. Anthony's compositions have been performed in concert by numerous ensembles including Marin Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra Reading Sessions. He recently received a 2003 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is also a winner of 2003 Haddonfield Symphony Young Composers Competition (4/2003 performance) and an ARTS week Level 1 award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (2000). Anthony had a premiere of a commission last year with the New York Youth Symphony First Music 18, and has an upcoming performance of a piano trio for the Jupiter Trio. He produces and hosts Alive and Well on WHRB (Harvard Radio Broadcasting), a show devoted to promoting works by younger American composers.
Avner Dorman AGE: 28 TITLE: Piccolo Concerto for Piccolo, String Orchestra and Piano Duration: 14’ FROM: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Avner is a first year C.V. Starr fellow in the DMA program of The Juilliard School of Music. He holds a Masters in Musicology and Composition from the Tel Aviv University and the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. He was a recipient of the Tanglewood composition fellowship in the summer of 2002. In the year 2000, Avner won the ACUM prize for his ELLEF symphony, which was premiered by the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Young-Euro-Classic festival in Berlin and featured at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. He is the youngest composer ever to have been awarded the coveted Israeli Prime Minister’s prize for exceptional achievement in the Arts. In 2001, Avner was named Composer-in-Residence of the highly acclaimed chamber orchestra, the Israel Camerata, which resulted in a new crossover series in the orchestra's current season. He has taught computer-aided composition at the Rubin Academy of Music, Harmony at the Rimon School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and has worked for the Open University in Tel Aviv.
Michael Djupstrom AGE: 22 TITLE: Test for Saxophone Quartet Duration: 10’ FROM: White Bear Lake, MN
Michael Djupstrom received his B.M in composition from the University of Michigan in 2002. He is currently still at the University of Michigan and will complete his MA there in 2005. As part of a fellowship to attend the Tanglewood Music Center in 2002, Mr. Djupstrom composed Homages, an 11-minute work for large wind ensemble. The piece was premiered that summer by Frank Battisti and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind Ensemble, the commissioning group. He has received awards and scholarships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Theodore Presser Foundation, and the University of Michigan. He was the first ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize winner in 2002, and he won the Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize of Ithaca College. Michael has received commissions from the BUTI Young Artists Wind Ensemble and the Northside Quartet. He will be returning to Tanglewood Music Center as the ASCAP Foundation/Leonard Bernstein Composition Fellow this summer.
Mathew Fuerst AGE: 25 TITLE: Sonata - Fantasie for Violin and Piano Duration: 6’ FROM: New York, NY
Composer/Pianist Mathew Fuerst graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and the Eastman School of Music in 1999 in both piano and composition. He is currently a second year DMA at Juilliard, where he has already received his Masters degree in 2001. Mat made his orchestral debut as piano soloist at the age of seven, and received his first commission at fifteen. This work was subsequently broadcast on National Public Radio. Some of his accomplishments include the Palmer Dixon Prize from The Juilliard School, for 2001 and 2002, and he was selected for Whitaker Reading by the American Composers Orchestra in 2003. Mathew had 2 Violin Sonatas commissioned from Canadian Violinist, Jaspar Wood, and Pianist, David Riley, to be performed on tours and broadcast on CBC Radio. He has been involved in several multi-media projects at Juilliard, including collaboration with dancers and choreographers.
Jeremy Gill AGE: 28 TITLE: Novas for Full Orchestra Duration: 11’ FROM: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Composer, Pianist, and Conductor Jeremy Gill has studied music at the Eastman School and the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD in the year 2000. His most recent commissions are with the Network for New Music and the Harrisburg Symphony Association. He received The ASCAP Foundation/ Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 2000. Jeremy was also awarded a Music Alive Residency Grant through the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer in 2002. His most recent performances were with the Network for New Music and the Casal Quartet. Jeremy’s summer plans are to rent an artist studio in Philadelphia and compose one or two large works.
Stewart Goodyear AGE: 25 TITLE: Piano Sonata Duration: 18’ FROM: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Stewart is an accomplished young pianist whose upcoming schedule includes his debut with the Dallas Symphony conducted by Andrew Litton, Chicago Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, with Gerard Schwarz, and the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Pinchas Zukerman. Stewart will perform in recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. In addition to his talents as a pianist, Stewart is a composer and frequently performs his own works, including his solo piano work, Variations on 'Eleanor Rigby', and his Piano Sonata for which he won a 2003 Morton Gould Award. He was commissioned by the Toronto Youth Symphony (25th anniversary), as well as for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. A native of Toronto, Canada, Stewart holds a Masters Degree from the Juilliard School of Music, and he also studied at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Lane Harder AGE: 27 TITLE: Circus Plenus Clamor Ingens Ianuae Tensae – variations for six marimbists Duration: 6’ FROM: Mineola, Texas
Lane received a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Southern Methodist University in 1999. He spent a year of resident study in the United Kingdom at Kings College, London and received special distinction from La Schola Cantorum for his studies in Paris, where he will return this summer on a scholarship. Lane is also a freelance percussionist in the Dallas area where he performs regularly with many ensembles including The Rhythm Project, which he co-founded. He has recorded a number of commercial and independently released projects, and his own music also appears on the Gasparo Records release, Strike: Music of Motion, recorded by the Meadows Percussion Ensemble and released in 2000. Honors and awards he has received include The Voices of Change 5th Annual Russell Horn Young Composers Competition, National Association of Composers USA Annual Young Composers Competition, and The Michael Iovenko Memorial Scholarship from The Florence Gould Foundation for studies in France. His recent commissions include the Meadows Percussion Ensemble, and a piece for solo percussionist Michael Plotkin. His winning piece, Circus Plenus Clamor Ingens Ianuae Tensae, was premiered by the Meadows Percussion Ensemble at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2002 and later performed by the University of North Texas Percussion Ensemble in 2003.
Daniel Kellogg AGE: 27 TITLE: And the Dust Shall Sing Like a Bird for Violin and Piano Duration: 15’ FROM: Wilton, Connecticut
Daniel holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute and a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music. He is currently completing his studies at Yale toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. He was chosen as the 2002-2004 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence, and during his tenure he has composed commissioned works for two members of the Young Concert Artists roster. The first work, which is his Young Composer winning piece, and the dust shall sing like a bird, was written for violinist Nicolas Kendall, who premieres the work in New York and Washington this year. Daniel’s most recent honors are a 2003 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2003 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Award, granted for his work Jasper and Carnelian for Orchestra, which will result in a premiere of the work by the Santa Barbara Symphony in 2004. Other honors include the 2002 Harvey Gaul Composition Competition to write a work for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, three ASCAP Foundation/ Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and a 1997 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Daniel’s music has been premiered by the Ying Quartet, the President’s Own United States Marine Band, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Yale Philharmonic, and by eighth blackbird.
Orianna Webb
