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April 30, 2003
PETER SCHICKELE TO HOST
ANNUAL ASCAP CONCERT
MUSIC AWARDS ON MAY 22 IN NYC
Honorees include Elliot Goldenthal,
Julie Taymor, Paul Muldoon, Dale Warland, George Steel,
Samuel Adler, the College Band Directors National
Association, the New York Youth Symphony and
Winners
of the 2003 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer
Awards
The third annual ASCAP Concert Music
Awards will be presented at a ceremony and reception at
the Peter Norton SYMPHONY SPACE in New York on Thursday,
May 22nd. The invitation-only event, to be hosted by
ASCAP composer member, performer and radio host Peter
Schickele, begins at 5:00 PM. The ASCAP Concert Music
Honorees will include:
Elliot Goldenthal, 2003 Academy
Award for Best Original Score for Frida;
Julie Taymor, Director of film, opera
and music theater; author, designer, lyricist, and
puppeteer.
Paul Muldoon, 2003 Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry;
Dale Warland, composer,
conductor and founder of the Dale Warland Singers, now
celebrating its 30th Anniversary;
George
Steel, impresario, conductor, performer and
composer; Executive Director of the Kathryn Bache
Miller Theatre at Columbia University;
Samuel
Adler, composer, educator, author, conductor, in
celebration of his 75th year;
College Band
Directors National Association for inspiring and
training young musicians to perform and commission the
composers of their own time; (inception of ASCAP/CBDNA
Frederick Fennell Prize for Best Orginal Concert Band
Score)
New York Youth Symphony in
celebration of its 40th Anniversary of educating and
training young musicians and their unwavering support
for emerging American composers and
conductors.
Also recognized will be The ASCAP
Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award recipients.
The ASCAP Foundation program honors the late ASCAP and
ASCAP Foundation President Morton Gould's lifelong
commitment to encouraging young creators. 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, and a grant from the DeVries Fund
for our youngest creators from K-12 grade. The six ASCAP
composer/judges for the 2003 competition were: Samuel
Adler; Derek Bermel; Lisa Bielawa; Martin Bresnick;
Chris Theofanidis; and Melinda Wagner.
The 2003 Morton Gould Young Composer
Awards recipients are: Judah Adashi of Boston,
MA; Patrick Burke of Pittsburgh, PA; Anthony
Cheung of San Francisco, CA; Avner Dorman of
Tel-Aviv, Israel; Michael Djupstrom of St. Paul,
MN; Mathew Fuerst of Covina, CA; Jeremy
Gill of Philadelphia, PA; Stewart Goodyear of
Toronto, CA; Lane Harder of Houston, TX;
Daniel Kellogg of Wilton, CT; Martin
Kennedy of Tuscaloosa, AL; Nora
Kroll-Rosenbaum of New York, NY; Andrew Lee
of Charleston, SC; Christopher Lee of Akron,
OH; John Mackey of New Philadelphia, OH; Eli
Marshall of Waterville, ME; Nico Muhly of
Randolph, VT; Daniel Ott of Neptune City, NJ;
David Plylar of Peoria, AZ; Philip Rothman
of Buffalo, NY; Huang Ruo of Hai Nan Island,
China; Matthew Van Brink of Port Jefferson, NY;
Dalit Warshaw of New York, NY; and Orianna
Webb of Akron, OH.
The following composers were recognized
with Honorable Mention: Mark Berger of New Ulm, MN; Kyle
Blaha of Rochester, NY; Jennifer Graham of Oakland, CA;
Robert Gross of Escondido, CA; John Hedges of
Wilmington, DE; Vera Ivanova of Moscow, Russia; Angel
Lam of Hong Kong, China; Sean McClowry of Rockford, IL;
Keith Murphy of Cambridge, UK; Edward Niedermaier of
Lake Minnetonka, MN; Andrew Norman of Grand Rapids, MI;
and Gordon Williamson of Ottawa, CA.
The ASCAP Foundation has made special
Awards for composers under the age of 19: Timothy
Andres (age 17) of Litchfield County, CT; Peter
Asimov (age 11) of New York, NY; Julia Scott
Carey (age 16) of Wellesley, MA; Ryan
Gallagher (age 18) of Wooster, OH; Kevin Kim
(age 13) of Bergen County, NJ; Anna Lindemann
(age 17) of Boulder, CO; Marcus Macauley (age 17)
of Mercer Island, WA; and Natasha Sinha (age 12)
of Milton, MA.
The following composers received Honorable
Mention: Kit Armstrong (age 11) of Los Angeles,CA;
Kyumin Lee (age 10) of Lexington,MA; Tudor Dominik
Maican (age 14) of Bethesda, MD; Michael Summa (age 18)
of Dunmore, PA; Emilia Tamurri (age 17) of Maplewood,
NJ; Joseph Trapanese (age 18) of Jersey City, NJ; and
Milena Zhivotovska (age 17) of Kiev, Ukraine
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the world's
largest performing rights organization, with over
150,000 active 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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