Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

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The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995),[1] who was an internationally acclaimed American composer and served as professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995.[2] The first place prize consists of US$1,000 and a performance by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New Music Ensemble at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

[edit] Previous winners

  • 1997 Jason Eckardt "Echoes' White Veil"
  • 1998 Karim Al-Zand "String Quartet"
  • 1999 Craig Walsh "0 to 33 in 1045.5" and Keith Moore "A Vagrant on Every Floor"
  • 2000 Sophia Serghi "Sizzle"
  • 2001 Orlando Jacinto Garcia "Paisaje del Sonido II"
  • 2002 Yumiko Juvigny “Out of Dark Lair”
  • 2003 Edward Top “String Quartet”
  • 2004 Robert Yamasato “Scherzo”
  • 2005 Steven Rice “Murmurs from Limbo”
  • 2006 Douglas Boyce “102nd & Amsterdam"

[edit] References

  1. ^ Musical America. East Windsor, New Jersey: Commonwealth Business Media, 2006
  2. ^ Chase G: America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present. McGraw-Hill, page 620, 1966

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