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May 2, 2002
The
ASCAP Foundation Names Winners
of the 2002 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
Honorees to be Cited at Third Annual
ASCAP Concert Music Awards Event in NYC, Peter Schickele
to Host
ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman has announced
the winners of the 2002 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould
Young Composer Awards.
Congratulating the award recipients, Marilyn Bergman
said, "The Morton Gould Young Composer Awards identify
and encourage gifted young composers. This year, our
winners range from 9 years of age to 30. These young
talents represent the future of American concert music.
We congratulate the recipients and extend thanks to
the dedicated panel of ASCAP composers who selected
the 29 winners from amongst 450 submissions."
Established in 1979, this ASCAP Foundation program
recognizes composers under 30 years of age whose works
are selected through a juried national competition.
Morton Gould, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, served
as President of ASCAP and The ASCAP Foundation from
1986 – 1994. He was an eminent and versatile American
composer, and was a child prodigy whose first composition
was published by G. Schirmer when he was just 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 winning composers share
prizes of over $30,000, including the Leo Kaplan Award,
honoring the distinguished jurist who served for twenty-eight
years as ASCAP Special Distribution Advisor.
The 2002 Winners will be welcomed to the ASCAP family
and presented at the third annual ASCAP Concert Music
Awards, May 23rd at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln
Center in New York. ASCAP’s Concert Music Honorees
will include:
Gerard Schwarz, Music Director of the Seattle Symphony
and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, champion of American
composers and the music of our time; Peter Schickele,
composer; Bright Sheng, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship; Henry
Brant, 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Composition; Justin Davidson
(ASCAP Concert Composer) 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Criticsm;
and the American Composers Orchestra for its 25 Years
of Service to the music of our time.
The 2002 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards recipients
are: Mason Bates of Oakland, CA; Robert L. Bennett,
Jr. of Burbank, CA; Tzu – Ling Sarana Chou of Taichung,
Taiwan; Reena Esmail of Los Angeles, CA; Gabriela Frank
of Berkeley, CA; Stefan Freund of Bloomington, IN; Vivian
Fung of New York, NY; Yotam Haber of Haifa, Israel;
Matthew Kajcienski of New York, NY; Martin Kennedy of
Tuscaloosa, AL; Anthony Lanman of Bloomington, IN; Damon
Lee of Lansing, MI; Jookang Lee of Seoul, Korea; Paola
Prestini of Trento, Italy; Adam Roberts of Columbus,
OH; Philip Rothman of Buffalo, NY; Huang Ruo of Hai
Nan Island, China; Matthew Van Brink of East Northport,
NY; Cynthia Lee Wong of Northboro, MA; Cody Westheimer
of Santa Barbara, CA; and Wang Xi of Shanghai, China.
The following composers were recognized with Honorable
Mention: Kati Agocs of Windsor, Canada; Alan Chan of
Kansas City, MO; Ian Corbett of Kansas City, MO; Kenneth
Froelich of San Diego, CA; Derek Johnson of Boulder,
CO; John Mackey of New York, NY; David Mallamud of Jenkintown,
PA; Bear McCreary of Los Angeles, CA; Yevgeniy Sharlat
of New Haven, CT; Adam B. Silverman of New York, NY;
and Zhou Tian of Shanghai, China.
The ASCAP Foundation has made special Awards for composers
age 18 and under: Athena Adamopoulos (age 15) of New
York, NY; Preben Antonsen (age 11) of Berkeley, CA;
Kit Armstrong (age 10) of Los Angeles, CA; Stephen Cabell,
Jr. (age 17) of Owensboro, KY; Julia Scott Carey (age
16) of Wellesley, MA; Kevin Kim (age 12) of Bergen County,
New Jersey; Natasha Sinha (age 11) of Milton, MA; and
Milena Zhivotovska (age 16) of Kiev, Ukraine.
The following composers received Honorable Mention:
Timothy Anders (age 16) of Litchfield County, CT; Nigel
Armstrong (age 12) of Sonoma County, CA; Sebastian Chang
(age 14) of Orange County, CA; Ann Fontanella (age 13)
of West Chester, PA; Anna Lindemann (age 16) of Boulder,
CO; Alexander Moran (age 12) of Rockingham, NH; Christopher
Shimojima (age 15) of Bergen County, NJ; Jeffrey Stanek
(age 18) of Madison, WI; and Zachary Wadsworth (age
18) of Richmond, VA.
The six ASCAP composer/judges for the 2002 competition
were: Samuel Adler; Eve Beglarian; Chen Yi; Donald Freund;
Roberto Sierra; and Chris Theofanidis.
The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated to supporting American
music creators and encouraging the development of American
music through music education and talent development
programs. Included in these are songwriting workshops,
grants, scholarships, music education programs, and
public service projects for senior composers and lyricists.
The programs of The ASCAP Foundation are supported by
contributions from ASCAP members and from music lovers
throughout the United States.
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the world’s largest
performing right organization with over 130,000 composer,
lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP is committed
to protecting the rights of its members by licensing
and collecting royalties for the public performance
of their copyrighted works, and then distributing these
fees to the Society’s members based on performances.
ASCAP’s repertory spans the entire spectrum of
music – from pop to symphonic, rock to gospel,
Latin to country, to jazz, rhythm and blues, theater,
film and television music. ASCAP’s Board of Directors
is made up solely of writers and publishers elected
by the membership.
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