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April 12, 2004
The ASCAP Foundation Names Winners of the 2004
Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman has announced
the winners of the 2004 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould
Young Composer Awards.
Congratulating the award recipients, Marilyn Bergman
said, "The 2004 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
honor gifted young composers from 9 years of age to
30. These young talents represent the future of American
concert music. We congratulate the recipients and express
our appreciation to the dedicated panel of ASCAP composers
who selected the winners from amongst 500 submissions."
Established in 1979, the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould
Young Composer 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
program was dedicated to his memory, following his death
in 1996. The winning composers share prizes of approximately
$40,000, including the Leo Kaplan Award, honoring the
distinguished jurist who served for twenty-eight years
as ASCAP Special Distribution Advisor, and a grant from
the DeVries Fund for our youngest creators from K-12
grade.
The 2004 Morton Gould Young Composer recipients are
listed with their current residence, and places of origin:
Randall Bauer of Princeton, NJ; Kyle Blaha of Rochester,
NY (Belleville, IL); Michael Djupstrom of Ann Arbor,
MI (St. Paul, MN); Avner Dorman of New York, NY (Tel-Aviv,
Israel); Kenneth Froelich of Bloomington, IN (Chester,
PA); Judd Greenstein of New Haven, CT (NY); Yotam Haber
of New York, NY (The Netherlands); Vincent Chee-Yung
Ho of Los Angeles, CA (Alberta, Canada); Takuma Itoh
of Houston, TX (Menlo Park, CA); Vera Ivanova of Rochester,
NY (Moscow, Russia); Jonathan Keren of New York, NY
(Israel); Caroline Mallonee of Baltimore, MD (Durham,
NC); Paula Matthusen of Brooklyn, NY (Tempe, AZ); John
Mayrose of Durham, NC (Shelby, NC); Sean McClowry of
New York, NY (Rockford, IL); Nathan Michel of Princeton,
NJ (Charleston, SC); Karola Obermueller of Cambridge,
MA (Seeheim, Germany); Daniel Ott of New York, NY (Neptune
City, NJ); Norbert Palej of New York, NY (Krakow, Poland);
Joshua Penman of Ann Arbor, MI (Brookline, MA); Huang
Ruo of New York, NY (Hainan Island, China); Wonhee Shin
of Cincinnati, OH (Seoul, Korea); David Stovall of New
Haven, CT (Fairfax, VA); Wang Xi of Ithaca, NY (Shanghai,
China), and Zhou Tian of Philadelphia, PA (Hangzhou,
China).
The following composers received Honorable Mention:
John Arrigo-Nelson of East Setauket, NY (Providence,
RI); Nathan Brock of San Diego, CA (Boston, MA); Mathew
Fuerst of New York, NY (Covina, CA); Daniel Highman
of Bloomington, IN (San Mateo, CA); Angel Lam of Baltimore,
MD (Hong Kong, China); Jacob Rundall of Urbana, IL (Eau
Claire, WI); and Katharine Penland Soper of Berkeley,
CA (Ann Arbor, MI).
The youngest ASCAP Foundation composer winners range
in age from 9 to 18 and are listed by state of origin:
Athena Adamopoulos, age 17 (NY); Kit Armstrong, age
11 (CA); Peter Asimov, age 12 (NY); Julia Scott Carey,
age 17 (MA); Sebastian Chang, age 15 (CA); Roy Femenella,
age 9 (NY); Jay Greenberg, age 12 (CT); Karen Hakobyan,
age 18 (UT); Alice Hong, age 11 (NC); Geoff Knorr, age
18 (GA); Christopher Lim, age 15 (NY); Tudor Dominik
Maican, age 15 (MD); Max Schreier, age 18 (MA); Natasha
Sinha, age 13 (MA), and Conrad Tao, age 9 (NY).
The following composers received Honorable Mention:
Preben Antonsen, age 12 (CA); Zachary Bernstein, age
16 (WA); Sasha Clynes, age 13 (NY); Jade Conlee, age
11 (UT); William David Cooper, age 17 (MI); Michael
Foumai, age 16 (HI); Farhad Hudiyev, age 18 (MN), and
Kevin Kim, age 14 (NJ).
The 2004 ASCAP composer/judges are: Eve Beglarian; David
Lang; Paul Lansky; Chris Theofanidis; Ezequiel Vinao;
and Zhou Long.
For more than twenty-five years, The ASCAP Foundation
has been dedicated to nurturing gifted composers, and
preserving our musical legacy by serving the entire
music community through a variety of educational, professional
and humanitarian programs.
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