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2008 New Mexico Young Composers' Project Laureates Named
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| Santa Fe New Music is pleased to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2008 New Mexico Young Composers’ Project. Held since 2000, the New Mexico Young Composers' Project (NMYCP) includes a statewide call for submissions from composers aged 18 and younger, offering them the opportunity for professional review and public performance. The only statewide, free-of-cost young composers' competition for 18 and under in the state of New Mexico, NMYCP is a program which takes young composers seriously, assessing not only originality and compositional craft, but also score appearance. Under NMYCP, a number of original scores are selected by a professional musician panel including area composers of national and international renown. A small prize is awarded to the laureate composers, and the awards ceremony takes place at the first SFNM fall concert after the competition closes. This year, the panel of judges included: Conrad DeJong, composer, University of Wisconsin (retired), and former SFNM Board Member; Steve Paxton, composer, Director of Contemporary Music Program, College of Santa Fe; Oliver Prezant, College of Santa Fe, conductor, Santa Fe Community Orchestra; and Keith Allegretti, a 17-year-old Santa Fe Prep senior, and past winner of four NMYCP awards. Keith will be attending Rice University Shepherd School of Music in fall to study composition. The panel engaged in blind selection of the pieces, and works by the following six composers were chosen from the anonymous submissions: Jade Kennedy, age 6, Santa Fe — “Elephant Fingers” for piano (Teacher – Char Rothschild) Celia Flicker, age 9, Los Alamos — “Tales of the Gods” for voice and piano (Teacher – Juanita Madland) Jasmine Kennedy, age 9, Santa Fe — “Playful Puppies” for piano (Teacher – Char Rothschild) Amy Siegel, age 15, Las Cruces — “Evening Snowfall” for piano (Teacher – Justin Rains) Matt Hanson, age 17, Los Alamos — “Symphony No. 3, movement III” for orchestra (Teacher – Marion Pack) Zachary Wickstrom, 17, Albuquerque — “Fugue and Fantasia in A minor” for string quartet (Teachr – Rick Hale) The judges also awarded four honorable mentions, to: Thomas Chadwick, 7 Los Alamos Justine Flores, 8, Albuquerque Sophan Kellogg, 10, Los Alamos Scott Schaller, 15, Albuquerque The New Mexico Young Composers' Project has been hailed by parents, teachers, and young musicians for taking young composers seriously, creating a link between the child interested in composition and the young adult who goes on to leave his or her artistic mark on the larger community and the world at large. The 2009 YCP Guidelines will be announced in January, 2009. |