Honoring Excellence, Encouraging Youth

In its seventh year, ASCAP awards event celebrates the leaders of the concert music community and the next generation

2006 ASCAP Concert Music Award honorees and presenters

ASCAP's 7th Annual Concert Music Awards honored some of the concert music world's leading lights, such as Philip Glass, James DePreist, Matt Haimovitz and Alarm Will Sound. The event also honors the next generation of concert music composers by presenting the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The ASCAP Foundation program honors the late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former ASCAP Foundation President Morton Goul's lifelong commitment to encouraging young creators. The 2006 ASCAP composer/judges were Eve Beglarian; Sebastian Currier; Charles Fussell; Marc Mellits; Alvin Singleton; Christopher Theofanidis and Randall Woolf.

Presenters at this year's Concert Awards included ASCAP Board Member Stephen Paulus, John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, Meredith Monk, Peter Schickele, Christopher Theofanidis, Melinda Wagner and ASCAP's Frances Richard and Cia Toscanini.

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