2003 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
Recipients Under the age of 18
Timothy Andres AGE: 17 TITLE: Sonata for Piano Duration: 30’ FROM: Connecticut
Timothy was born in Palo Alto, CA. He is currently Home-schooled and he will graduate the 12th grade in June of 2003. In addition to composing, he is also a pianist. His Piano Concerto was premiered by the Norwalk Symphony, featuring Timothy on the piano and with Jonathan Sheffer conducting. This same piece was subsequently performed by the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, again with Timothy as soloist. His recent awards include the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts/Arts Recognition and Talent Search Level 1 Award, the Presidential Scholar Nomination in 2003, the Pinnacle Project fellowship in 2002, and an ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Honorable Mention in 2002. He is interested in visual art and design, literature, especially in conjunction with music and composition.
Peter Asimov AGE: 11 TITLE: Seasons Suite for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Piano Duration: 8’ FROM: New York
Since Peter started composing in 1997, he has premiered more than a dozen of his own compositions. He has been in the Honors Program for five years in the Preparatory Division of Mannes College of Music in New York City and he will complete the fifth grade in June, 2003. Peter was a finalist in the Morton Gould Young Composer Competition in 2002 for his Sonata for Carinet and Piano. In addition to composing, Peter is also a very talented pianist. He gives regular solo piano recitals outside of his appearances at Mannes, many of which are fund-raising or benefit performances. He plays at many schools in New York in solo recitals, chamber music concerts and as concerto soloist. In April 2003, Peter was a guest composer and pianist with the Keys Chamber Orchestra in Florida where he played eight concerts in two weeks. His other interests and hobbies include basketball, baseball and cooking. He enjoys studying facts about the states and has visited nineteen states in the US so far. Additionally, pirates are his new hobby since his recent visit to the Florida Keys.
Julia Scott Carey AGE: 17 TITLE: Escape Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra and Concertino Duration: 8’ FROM: Massachusetts
Julia is in the eleventh grade and she plays the piano and harpsichord. Over this past year alone, Julia has had twenty-five performances of eight of her orchestral and chamber compositions by five different orchestras and several chamber ensembles, in five states in this country and in four countries in Europe. The venues range from the National Gallery in Dublin, Lincoln Center in New York to the Little Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. Julia has had her compositions performed by the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Portland Chamber Festival, the Contemporary Music Festivals of the New England Conservatory, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Boston Pops Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Keith Lockhart, the Indianapolis Symphony under Raymond Leppard, the Boston Civic Symphony under Max Hobart, among others. Julia has received a number of awards, including six Morton Gould Young Composers Awards over the past six years. Julia received awards in the International Young Composers Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1998 and 2002. Closer to home, she has received composition prizes from the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association, the New England Pianoforte Teachers Association, and, most recently, the Rivers School of Music Contemporary Music Seminar. In 2001, Julia was chosen as a Pinnacle Scholar by the American Psychological Association (her mentor is conductor Beatrice Affron) and also was awarded a fellowship from the Davidson Institute for her achievements in music.
Ryan Gallagher AGE: 18 TITLE: Incandescence for Chamber Orchestra Duration: 5’ FROM: Ohio
Ryan has studied composition and theory for more than two years with his father, Dr. Jack Gallagher of The College of Wooster. His pieces include Incandescence for chamber orchestra; Burning in Water, Drowning in Fire for Pierrot ensemble; and When Things Fall Apart for percussion ensemble, both premiered at Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and a String Quartet, in three movements. Incandescence was selected for performance by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Andrew Rindfleisch, conductor, at Cleveland State University in November 2002. The Nevsky String Quartet of St. Petersburg, Russia recorded his String Quartet, which was also selected as a finalist in the 2002 Hartt School of Music Young Composer Awards, in studio sessions and premiered the second and third movements in concert. Ryan is in his third season as principal trumpet of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland and he has been a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra as well as the Ohio All-State Orchestra for the past two years. He is a senior in high school and in fall of 2003 will attend The Juilliard School. In the summer of 2003 he will attend the Aspen Music School.
Kevin Kim AGE: 13 TITLE: Three Preludes for Piano Duration: 7’ FROM: New Jersey
Kevin, at the age of five and prior to receiving any musical training, composed his first short songs on piano. The following year, Kevin began taking lessons on piano, while continuing to compose. At age 8, in his first public recital, Kevin performed twenty-six of his own compositions at Seoul’s Opus Hall. Encouraged by his music teachers, Kevin moved with his mother to the US in October 1998 to pursue his studies at the Mannes College of Music. Kevin’s first orchestral piece was Untitled, Opus 67, written in 1997 when he was 7 years old. His Suite for Piano (2001) won Kevin the ASCAP Foundation/ Morton Gould Young Composers competition in 2002. His other recent works include Two Mbira Movements, Opus 110, (2001); a chamber ensemble piece entitled Deep-Sea Dance; Untitled (for Piano and Sequencer) (2003); Three Preludes for Piano (2002); September Journey (2002); and Colliding Dreams, a new orchestral work.
Anna Lindemann AGE: 17 TITLE: Goat Herd for Flute, Clarinet, Percussion, Piano, Violin and Cello Duration: 5’ FROM: Colorado
Anna has been composing since the age of nine. Amongst her early works are two suites for piano. The first, entitled Garden Suite, consists of eight movements, and won second place in the 1999 Music Teacher’s National Association Composition Competition. The second suite is a seven-movement work, Animal Expeditions, which was awarded first place in the Pike’s Peak Young Composer’s Competition in 2001 and a gold medal in the composition division of the Spokane Music and Allied Arts Festival in 2000. Anna has also written a choral work entitled Three Bee Songs with text from three poems by Emily Dickinson. This piece won second place in the Ars Nova Composition Competition in 2001. Anna composed a fifty-minute ballet, titled Persephone, which combined her musical talent with her ten-year study of classical ballet. A suite of three movements from Persephone, entitled Into the Underworld and Out Again, was awarded the winner of the 2002 Natalie & Murray S. Katz Young Composers Competition and was performed by Collage New Music at Harvard University in February 2003. Anna has enjoyed two summers composing at the Walden School in New Hampshire and is looking forward to composing at Tanglewood Institute this summer. She has begun composing a second ballet that will be produced in June 2004. Anna currently studies music with her father Eric Lindemann and continues to take ballet. She is in the eleventh grade at Boulder High School and has a fondness for making paper hats in her spare time.
Marcus Macauley AGE: 17 TITLE: Strands of Thought for Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone and Percussion Duration: 6’ FROM: Washington
Marcus has been playing the piano since he was three and has been studying composition for the past seven years. He has studied music at the Aspen Music School, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and the Academy of Music Northwest in Seattle. Last spring he was invited, with three other composers, to attend the 2002 National Youth Orchestra Festival. Marcus’s compositions have received national awards from ASCAP, Collage New Music, Austin Peay State University, and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. His works have been performed by cellist Truls Mørk, the Ensemble Sospeso, Ensemble Eleven, Collage New Music, and members of the Seattle Symphony. As a pianist, Marcus has won many local and statewide awards and competitions, including the Helen Crow Snelling and Simon Fiset piano competitions, the Washington State Solo and Ensemble Contest, and the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Concerto Playoffs. He has performed with the Sammamish Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, the Bellevue Youth Symphony, Philharmonia Northwest, and the Seattle Symphony. Marcus is a senior in high school, where he plays cello in the orchestra and piano in the jazz ensemble. Recently he was awarded a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music, where he will enter as a composition major this fall.
Natasha Sinha AGE: 12 TITLE: Ramayana for Full Orchestra Duration: 15’ FROM: Massachusetts
Natasha is in the seventh grade. She started playing the piano at age 5 and was composing by age 7. She studies composition and piano at the New England Conservatory of Music where her works have been performed. She collaborated on a work in conjunction with MIT Media Lab, and created Toy Symphony, which was premiered by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on April 26th, 2003; at the 2003 New England Conservatory Contemporary Music Festival on Janaury 27, 2003 and repeated in New York this past weekend. Natasha is four-time ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award Winner and a 2001-2002 Warner Brother MTNA National Composition Winner. She has been commissioned by the Essex Chamber Music Players. An interview with Natasha appears on the American Music Center’s webzine, www.NewMusicBox.org. and she was featured on the PBS special “A Taste of Passover” with Theodore Bikel. Natasha is an accomplished figure skater and also enjoys lacrosse and swimming.
