Howard Shore, Paul Moravec, Bang On
A Can, Zankel Hall at Carnegie, Ethel, David Alan
Miller and Winners of the 2004 ASCAP Foundation Morton
Gould Young Composer Awards Among Honorees
The fifth annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards were presented
at a ceremony and reception at the Walter Reade Theater
in Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday, May
27th. The invitation-only event was hosted by ASCAP
composer member, performer and radio host Peter Schickele.
This year's ASCAP Concert Music Honorees represent
the diverse aesthetic spectrum of the concert music
world. Those being recognized by ASCAP this year were:
Howard Shore, recipient of consecutive
Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Lord
of The Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King;
Paul Moravec, recipient of the 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Music for Tempest Fantasy;
Bang On A Can composer/founders Julia
Wolfe, Michael Gordon and David Lang, who received the
Victor Herbert Award for distinguished service to American
Music;
Zankel Hall at Carnegie, in celebration
of the venue's inaugural season, and the artistic and
programmatic vision of the lateRobert Harth and Ara
Guzelimian;
Ethel, the composer/string quartet
members Ralph Farris, Dorothy Lawson, Todd Reynolds
and Mary Rowell in recognition of their brilliant and
passionate championship of the music of our time;
David Alan Miller, conductor and Music
Director of the Albany Symphony for his dedicated and
effective advocacy of American composers and their music.
Also recognized were the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould
Young Composer Award recipients. The ASCAP Foundation
program honors the late ASCAP and ASCAP Foundation President
Morton Gould's lifelong commitment to encouraging young
creators. The winning composers share prizes of approximately
$40,000, including the Leo Kaplan Award, which is presented
in memory of the distinguished jurist who served for
twenty-eight years as ASCAP Special Distribution Advisor;
and a grant from the DeVries Fund for the youngest participating
creators from K-12 grade.
The 2004 ASCAP composer/judges were: Eve Beglarian;
David Lang; Paul Lansky; Chris Theofanidis; Ezequiel
Vinao; and Zhou Long.
The 2004 Morton Gould Young Composer recipients are
listed with their current residence, and places of origin:
Randall Bauer of Princeton, NJ; Kyle
Blaha of Rochester, NY (Belleville, IL); Michael
Djupstrom of Ann Arbor, MI (St. Paul, MN);
Avner Dorman of New York, NY (Tel-Aviv,
Israel); Kenneth Froelich of Bloomington,
IN (Chester, PA); Judd Greenstein of
New Haven, CT (NY); Yotam Haber of
New York, NY (The Netherlands); Vincent Chee-Yung
Ho of Los Angeles, CA (Alberta, Canada); Takuma
Itoh of Houston, TX (Menlo Park, CA); Vera
Ivanova of Rochester, NY (Moscow, Russia);
Jonathan Keren of New York, NY (Israel);
Caroline Mallonee of Baltimore, MD
(Durham, NC); Paula Matthusen of Brooklyn,
NY (Tempe, AZ); John Mayrose of Durham,
NC (Shelby, NC); Sean McClowry of New
York, NY (Rockford, IL); Nathan Michel
of Princeton, NJ (Charleston, SC); Karola Obermueller
of Cambridge, MA (Seeheim, Germany); Daniel
Ott of New York, NY (Neptune City, NJ); Norbert
Palej of New York, NY (Krakow, Poland); Joshua
Penman of Ann Arbor, MI (Brookline, MA);
Huang Ruo of New York, NY (Hainan Island, China);
Wonhee Shin of Cincinnati, OH (Seoul,
Korea); David Stovall of New Haven,
CT (Fairfax, VA); Wang Xi of Ithaca,
NY (Shanghai, China); and Zhou Tian
of Philadelphia, PA (Hangzhou, China).
The following composers received Honorable Mention:
John Arrigo-Nelson of East Setauket, NY (Providence,
RI); Nathan Brock of San Diego, CA (Boston, MA); Mathew
Fuerst of New York, NY (Covina, CA); Daniel Highman
of Bloomington, IN (San Mateo, CA); Angel Lam of Baltimore,
MD (Hong Kong, China); Jacob Rundall of Urbana, IL (Eau
Claire, WI); and Katharine Penland Soper of Berkeley,
CA (Ann Arbor, MI).
The youngest ASCAP Foundation composer winners range
in age from 9 to 18 and are listed by state of origin:
Athena Adamopoulos, age 17 (NY); Kit
Armstrong, age 11 (CA); Peter Asimov,
age 12 (NY); Julia Scott Carey, age
17 (MA); Sebastian Chang, age 15 (CA);
Roy Femenella, age 9 (NY); Jay
Greenberg, age 12 (CT); Karen Hakobyan,
age 18 (UT); Alice Hong, age 11 (NC);
Geoff Knorr, age 18 (GA); Christopher
Lim, age 15 (NY); Tudor Dominik Maican,
age 15 (MD); Max Schreier, age 18 (MA);
Natasha Sinha, age 13 (MA); and Conrad
Tao, age 9 (NY).
The following composers received Honorable Mention:
Preben Antonsen, age 12 (CA); Zachary Bernstein, age
16 (WA); Sasha Clynes, age 13 (NY); Jade Conlee, age
11 (UT); William David Cooper, age 17 (MI); Michael
Foumai, age 16 (HI); Farhad Hudiyev, age 18 (MN); and
Kevin Kim, age 14 (NJ).
2004 marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of ASCAP.
As the world's largest Performing Rights Organization,
ASCAP has over 180,000 composer, lyricist and music
publisher members representing all genres of music.
ASCAP is committed to protecting the rights of its members
by licensing and collecting royalties for the public
performance of their copyrighted works, and then distributing
these fees to the Society's members based on performances.
ASCAP's Board of Directors is made up solely of
writers and publishers, elected by the membership every
two years.
For more than twenty-five years, The ASCAP Foundation
has been dedicated to nurturing gifted composers, and
preserving our musical legacy by serving the entire
music community through a variety of educational, professional
and humanitarian programs.
