The 2007 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould
Young Composer Awards
Established in 1979, with funding from the Jack and Amy Norworth Memorial Fund, The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Awards program grants cash prizes to young Concert Music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a juried national competition. These composers may be American citizens, permanent residents, or students possessing US Student Visas.
Morton Gould, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, served as President of ASCAP and The ASCAP Foundation from 1986 – 1994. Gould, an eminent and versatile American composer, was a child prodigy whose first composition was published by G. Schirmer when he was only six years of age. To honor Gould’s lifelong commitment to encouraging young creators, the annual ASCAP Foundation Young Composer program was dedicated to his memory, following his death in 1996.
The award-winning composers share prizes of approximately $45,000, including the Leo Kaplan Award, in memory of the distinguished attorney who served as ASCAP Special Distribution Advisor, the Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship for a composer 18 years of age or younger, and grants from the DeVries, Norworth and Morton Gould Funds. Jack Norworth wrote such standards as "Shine On Harvest Moon" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." The Awards are also sponsored by Sibelius, the music notation software company, which generously awards the winners with free software.
The recipients of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards are:
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* Eli Marshall
Leo Kaplan Award |
Mason Bates |
Anthony Cheung |
Will Cooper |
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| Jacob Cooper |
Christopher Dietz |
Michael Early |
Reena Esmail |
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| Sean Friar |
Ryan Gallagher |
Cory Hibbs |
Takuma Itoh |
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| Angel Lam |
Xinyan Li |
Eric Lindsay |
Missy Mazzoli |
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| Clint Needham |
Adam Schoenberg |
Zhou Tian |
Zachary Wadsworth |
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| Jie Wang |
Derrick Wang |
Xi Wang |
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Kit Armstrong
* Charlotte V. Bergen
Scholarship |
Anderson F. Alden |
Tim Callobre |
Anthony Duarte |
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| Max Grafe |
Gabrielle Haigh |
Sunbin Kim |
Jeremiah R. Klarman |
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| Elizabeth Ogonek |
Edward J. Poll |
Armand Ranjbaran |
Thomas Reeves |
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| Conrad Tao |
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Evan Fein
Peng Peng Gong
Daniel Haldar
Robert Honstein
Jenny Olivia Johnson
J. Benjamin Jones
Martin Kennedy
Reinaldo Moya |
Edward Niedermaier
Thomas Osborne
Scott Petersen
Yevgeniy Sharlat
Christopher Trapani
Daniel Wohl
Timothy Woos |
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Samuel Adler
Kathryn Alexander
Derek Bermel
Chen Yi
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Sebastian Currier
Charles Fussell
Christopher Theofanidis |
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