Honored

DAVID BATTERSON wrote the lyrics for the song "Lipstick On That Pig" whose music video was recently a contest finalist on AssociatedContent.com, which included winning a $100 prize.

KYONG MEE CHOI with the 2007 Robert Helps Prize for her piece Gestural Trajectory for 2 pianos and percussion. The $10,000 prize also includes the work being premiered in Tampa, FL on February 14, 2007 and performed again at Merkin Recital Hall in 2007.

THE DIVYS' song "Freddie, Are You Single?" was chosen as the Best Electronic Song in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

DARON HAGEN has been elected to Lifetime Membership in the Corporation of Yaddo, America's prestigious retreat, in Saratoga Springs, NY.

SEAN HICKEY has been named composer-in-residence with the Metro Chamber Orchestra of New York City.

MICHAEL ISAACSON, Ph.D. by the American Society for Jewish Music, Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Theological Seminary as one of ten outstanding American Jewish liturgical composers of the 20th century on November 13, 2006. An exhibit of Isaacson's music was part of a conference entitled "Reclaiming American Judaism's Lost Legacy".

ELIE MASSIAS won a Top 15 spot at the 'Independent Music Worldseries' and will be featured on discmakers Northeast Heavy Hitters 2006 compilation CD.

MOTHEO MATLALA was awarded the first John Corigliano Music Scholarship at Lehman College of the City University of New York on November 7, 2006. The Department of Music presented an evening of Corigliano's chamber music at the Graduate Center and John Corigliano presented the award to Matlala.

WILLIAM 'SMOKEY' ROBINSON and Andrew Llyod Webber (PRS) were recently awarded 2006 Kennedy Center honors.

PAUL MORAVEC, composer, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner, and professor at Adelphi University is the recipient of the 2006 Aldo Leopold Award from the Lawrenceville School, from which he graduated in 1975. The award is in recognition of brilliant, life-long work in a specific field of endeavor.

THELDON MYERS, professor emeritus of composition and theory at Towson University, was honored with a concert of his chamber music in the newly dedicated Recital hall of the university.

KRISANTHI PAPPAS was the 3rd place Jazz Winner in the Billboard World Song Contest for her song, "One Slow Dance a Day."  Her song "My Back Yard" also tied for first place for the Favorite Song award by NYC's Cabaret Hotline 2006 Members' Choice Songwriters.

LANNY SHERWIN's third children's album release, Turn Up the Music!, received its sixth music award, this time from the National Association of Parenting Publications Awards.

BILLY TAYLOR and Randy Weston were celebrated as NEA Jazz Masters as part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in October of 2006.


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