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June 2004

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Making Score @ ASCAP

Making Score kids watch a demonstration as program director Derek Bermel and composer Michel Van der Aa (far right) look on.

Above, Composer Meredith Monk (in green jacket) poses with Making Score kids and Derek Bermel (far right).

Directed by Rome Prize-winner and composer/performer Derek Bermel, the New York Youth Symphony's "Making Score" is the first series of workshops in the country designed to explore the world of composing and orchestration for the younger musician. The series, now in its fourth season, just completed eight monthly workshops held from November 2003 through June 2004 at ASCAP. The workshops explored compositional thinking of a wide variety of leading modern composers, including Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Christopher Taylor, Michel Van der Aa and others, who discussed their sense of orchestration, instrumentation and why they made the choices they made in writing specific pieces of music.

Derek Bermel, Christopher Taylor and ASCAP's Fran Richard.

Michael Gordon, composer and co-founder of the Bang on the Can Festival, was also a featured guest speaker at the Making Score workshop.

ASCAP Composers Honored with Rome Prizes

Harold Meltzer

Steven Burke

The American Academy in Rome has named 31 winners of its annual Rome Prizes, among them ASCAP composers Harold Meltzer and Steven Burke. The Rome Prize is awarded to American artists and scholars on the basis of a juried competition; fellowships range from six months to two years of study at the Academy's 18-building complex in Rome, Italy.

Music Alive Composer Residencies 2004-05 Season

Robert Aldridge with Westfield (NJ) Symphony (2 weeks)

Christopher Brubeck with Stockton (CA) Symphony (3 weeks)

Vivian Fung with San Jose (CA) Symphony (2 weeks)

Edward Green with InterSchool Orchestras of New York (2 weeks)

William Kraft with San Diego (CA) Youth Symphony (2 weeks)

John Mackey with Seattle (WA) Youth Symphony (4 weeks)

Philip Rothman with Eugene (OR) Symphony Orchestra (2 weeks);

Peter Schickele with Waterloo-Cedar Falls (IA) Symphony (2 weeks)

Roberto Sierra with New Mexico Symphony (2 weeks)

Chen Yi Named Composer-in-Residence

Chen Yi has been named composer-in-residence at New York's Mannes College of Music for the 2004-05 academic year. Recent recipient of a Charles Ives Living award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has been the Lorena Searcey/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1998. She has also taught at Peabody Conservatory.

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