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Voices of Change/Dallas Symphony Orchestra 2012 Texas Young Composers Project The Texas Young Composers Project is intended to identify and encourage exceptionally talented young composers in Texas. High school, undergraduate, and graduate students in Texas under the age of 30 (at the time of submission) are invited to submit original music compositions for evaluation. From these submissions, four winning composers are selected to receive cash prizes, and have their works performed. For the 2012 season composers are invited to submit works for any combination of the following instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano. Submitted compositions are evaluated on the basis of artistic merit, technical mastery and originality. Recordings are encouraged, but not required. Winners in each category are invited to play an active role in the preparation of their music by working with the artistic leadership of the Texas Young Composers Project at a rehearsal preceding the concert. In addition, all submitting composers will be invited, as special guests, to attend a Voices of Change Ensemble dress rehearsal. Cash prizes for winning composers will be awarded as follows: College Level: 1st Place - $500 2nd Place - $250 High School Level: 1st Place - $300 2nd Place - $200 The four winning compositions will be performed at 4:00 pm on May 6, 2012 at the Meadows Museum on the SMU campus. Winning composers, friends and family members are invited to attend an informal dinner with TYCP artistic leadership following the recital. Cash awards and certificates will be presented at the Voices of Change subscription concert that evening at 7:30 pm in Caruth Auditorium. Note: Winning composers must be present at the afternoon recital in order to receive their cash awards. Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2012 Decisions announced by March 19, 2012 College & University Students should submit compositions to: TYCP – College Division Voices of Change 11300 N. Central Expressway, Suite 316 Dallas, TX 75243 Attn: Eileen McKee 214-378-8670 High School Students should submit compositions to: TYCP – High School Division Dallas Symphony Education Dept. 2301 Flora Street, Suite 300 Dallas, TX 75201 Attn: Carolyn Jabr 214-871-4083 A Heritage Left by Russell Horn The Young Composers Project continues the Voices of Change tradition of The Annual Russell Horn Young Composers Competition which was established in 1998 by Russ Horn (1916-2006). He was a board member, treasurer, box office manager, donor and volunteer for Voices of Change for over twelve years. Russ donated the prize money for the competition every year and it was named in his honor. To continue this tradition, his daughters, Linda Horn and Janet Horn Hemming, continue to donate the prize money. Russ left a legacy worthy of our classical music community. Jamie Allen, Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Education Department, our collaborator on this project staring in 2006, expressed his commitment to the Young Composers Project: "I can't think of two things that go much better together than young people and new music. Music is the way we can express the inexpressible, and every student I've ever worked with has had something unique and inexpressible inside them that was just dying to get out. I have reveled in the chance to experience the scores of the many talented young composers we have in North Texas, and am excited at the prospect of hearing an ensemble of the caliber of Voices of Change perform the selected works. I encourage everyone with even a passing interest in self expression and evolving culture to join me in this experience." Invitation Please share this information with all music students, music teachers and music department heads who know young composers in North Texas. Last Year's Young Composers Concert
2010-2011 Season Winners College Division Winners 1st place: Syrlane Moura de Albequerque Rondo for flute and piano 2nd place: Adam Giese fragments for flute and piano High School Division Winners 1st place: Christopher Poovey Aqua for solo piano 2nd place: Chase Dobson Prelude for Piano Trio 2008-2009 Season Winners College Division Winners 1st place: Kohsuke Tajima (UNT) String Quartet No. 1 (A Vision of Delusion) 2nd place: David Sterrett (SMU) The Cross for viola & harp High School Division Winners 1st place: Michael Taylor (home schooled) Three Scenes for viola and piano 2nd place: Kwanzaa Bennet (BTWHSPVA) When I Think of You for piano and alto saxophone Kohsuke Tajima (b.1985) started learning composition and the double bass at age 14 in his hometown of Shizuoka, Japan. In 2005, after his graduation from Fujieda East High School, he arrived in Texas and entered the jazz studies program at University of North Texas. During this time his interest in composition expanded, and he switched his study to composition. Currently, he is working on a Bachelor of Music in composition at UNT. Michael Taylor, (b. 1991) from Arlington, TX, studies piano with Tamás Ungár, violin with Jan Mark Sloman, and has studied composition with Simon Sargon, Michael Cox, Blaise Ferrandino, and David Tcimpidis. Michael began composing at age 10 at the suggestion of his violin teacher, writing little rondos and string quartets for his chamber group. This summer he will attend Tanglewood Festival’s Young Artists Composition Program on full scholarship. Read his performance bio under About the Artists in this program book. 2007-2008 Season Winners College Division Seeker for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and 2 percussion by Kris Peyson (b.1986) $500 High School Division Farewell for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass and piano by Jake Vandermeer (b.1990) $250 Honorable Mention in College Division Da-Jeong Choi, University of North Texas Dan Lazarescou, Southern Methodist University Michael Bryon, University of Houston Jordan Kuspa, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University 2006-2007 Season Winners College Division Sail Away for violin, cello, clarinet and piano by Chien-Wen Cheng (b.1972) University of North Texas $500 High School Division Equinox for flute, cello and piano by Jason E. Ballmann (b.1989) Hewitt High School $250 Honorable Mention Anne Strickland, $250 Ryan Manchester, $250 2005 -2006 – no competition 2004-2005 Season Winners Takuma Itoh, $1,000, Sounds and Shapes for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion Jonathan Kolm, $500, Crystal Fantasy for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violincello Peter Askim, $300, Eight Solitudes for bass and piano Honorable Mention Gabriel Lit: Pigdogs go to War March for clarinet, flute, drums, marimba Terry Alan Lee, On to… for violin, piano, string bass 2003–2004 Season Winners Kyle Kindred, $1,000, The Beast, Sonata for alto saxophone and piano Devin Collins, $500, Anthem for string quartet Jonathan Anderson, $300, Burke, Rawls, Harley for clarinet, viola and piano Honorable Mention Austin Jacquith, Sextet for Strings John A. Dribus Life Cycle 2002-2003 Season Winners Mark Feezell, $1000 Songs of Consonants, for mezzo-soprano and piano. Lane Harder, $500, Circus Plenus Clamor Ingens Ianuae Tensae, variations for six marimbists. 2001-2002 Season Winners Dr. Leonard Mark Lewis, $1,000, Concerto for Six Players for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion Jennifer Shaffer, $500, Prague Piano Quartet Andrew Pierce, $300, Quartet for Four Violas 2000-2001 Season Winner Leonard Mark Lewis, $1,000 |
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