JOSEPH BERTOLOZZI, RAY LESLEE, LUKAS LIGETI, ZEENA PARKINS, ANDY TEIRSTEIN and USHIO TORIKAI with a 2008 Music Composition Fellowship by the NY Foundation for the Arts. The $7,000 unrestricted grant is given to the Fellows.
PAUL BRILL with an Emmy nomination for the score to the HBO film The Trials of Darryl Hunt.
GORDON CHAMBERS by his hometown of Brooklyn, NY on August 6 th, 2008.
MING-CHING CHU with First Place in the IronWorks Duo Composition Competition for Uncompression.
BRENT MICHAELS DAVID with his second McKnight Award in Music Composition, a commissioning award by the First Nations Composer Initiative to compose a new work for Emanuele Arciuli, and an S.D. Award. David was also commissioned for new work by Dawn Avery and he is providing a film scoring workshop at IFP-MN.
STACY GARROP with the Phyllis C. Wattis Prize for Song Competition, which is administered by the San Francisco Song Festival, for her song cycle "In Eleanor's Words."
GEORGE KAHN with the 2008 Chuck Niles Bebop award at the Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival.
FELIPE LARA'S second string quartet, Tran (slate), as winner of the "Stauback Preis" in Darmstadt, Germany. The Arditti Quartet premiered the work. Lara was commissioned by Donaueschingen Musiktage to write a new work to be premiered at the festival's 2010 edition.
LISA LARUE with the 2008 Oklahoma Music Awards' "Native American Artist of the Year." This comes in conjunction with the announcement of her newest release, Ama.
JIMMY LOPEZ with the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for Composition.
MISSY MAZZOLI with Third Place in the IronWorks Duo Composition Competition for Volume.
ROBERT MCCLURE with Second Place in the IronWorks Duo Composition Competition for Go!
WILLIAM NEIL with a McKnight Visiting Composer grant from the American Composers Forum. Neil will explore Irish-American culture through the relationship between the secular and sacred musical traditions in the community of Winona, Minnesota.
FRANCISCO NUNEZ, conductor of Young People's Chorus of New York City with three gold medals in 2008 World Choir Olympics in Graz, Austria.
DELRAY M. RICHARDSON with a proclamation for his community service from the mayor Ellen O. Moyer and the city Annapolis.
GREGORY YASINITSKY with the Martin E. Smith Award for Faculty Excellence at Washington State University. He also presented the WSU Distinguished Faculty Address and was selected for promotion to the rank of Regents Professor.
