Hilary Purrington has won the American Composers Orchestra’s 2017 Underwood Commission, following a reading of her Likely Pictures in Haphazard Sky at the ACO’s annual Underwood sessions in June. Purrington, a New York City-based composer of chamber, choral, and orchestral music, will receive a $15,000 commission to write a new work for the ACO. Winner of the audience choice award for his piece Fantasme is Alexander Timofeev, a Philadelphia-based composer and pianist who is an artist-in-residence at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. Timofeev will also be commissioned to write a short work for the ACO. Readings of Purrington’s and Timofeev’s works took place in New York at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on June 22 and 23. ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel directed the readings; ACO Music Director George Manahan conducted; and the mentor composers were Libby Larsen, Trevor Weston, and David Rakowski.
Posted July 18, 2017
