Seventeen U.S. composers up to age 30 have been announced as “recipients of the 2018 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards,” writes Frank Oteri in Tuesday’s (4/17) NewMusicBox. The composers will receive cash prizes and “be recognized at an ASCAP event later this year. Below are details for … the award-winning composers and the works for which they were chosen.… Oren Boneh (Lug); Theophilus Chandler (Songs from Brooches); Frazar B. Henry (In Exordium); Molly Joyce (Over and Under); Mayumi Kimura Meguro (Hana o Tobashite); Alexis C. Lamb (Meia for berimbau); Bo Li (Encirclement); Piyawat Louilarpprasert (Particle Odyssey); Charles Meenaghan (Klepsýdra); Shashaank Narayanan (Percussion Evoluzione); Charles Peck (Vinyl); Peter S. Shin (Screaming Shapes); Aferdian Stephens (Trio); Tina Tallon (luscinia); Felipe Tovar-Henao (La Mirada del Ouroboros); Max Vinetz (Allemande); Alex Weiser (and all of the days were purple)…. Works are selected through a juried national competition…. This year’s Morton Gould Young Composer Awards composer/judges were: Du Yun, Daniel Felsenfeld, Joel Hoffman, Lowell Liebermann, Tamar Muskal, Alvin Singleton, and Edward Smaldone.”
Posted April 19, 2018
