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The EAMA Prize 2009 and EAMA New York Composition Awards guidelines
are now available

 

The European American Musical Alliance Inc.
Is pleased to announce
The 2008 Finalists for
THE FIRST ANNUAL EAMA PRIZE

Claude Baker Tableaux Funèbres, for Piano and String Quartet Bio
Nathaniel Harnack In Paradisum, for a cappella choir Bio
Anthony Iannaccone Journeys, for Clarinet and String Quartet Bio
Mark Kilstofte Of Rivers Within, for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra Bio
Liduino Pitombeira Brazilian Landscapes #1 for Violin, 'Cello and Piano Bio
Thomas Sleeper Symphony #1 for Large Orchestra Bio
Gregg Wramage La Tristesse Durera for Large Orchestra Bio

Claude Baker Tableaux Funèbres, for Piano and String Quartet
(Not yet available)
Nathaniel Harnack In Paradisum, for a cappella choir
This was recorded 11-15-03 and was sung by the Chico State A Capella
Choir under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Gemmell.
Anthony Iannaccone Journeys, for Clarinet and String Quartet
Mark Kilstofte Of Rivers Within, for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra
Liduino Pitombeira Brazilian Landscapes #1 for Violin, 'Cello and Piano
Thomas Sleeper Symphony #1 for Large Orchestra
Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Paul Phillips, conductor.
Gregg Wramage La Tristesse Durera for Large Orchestra
Millennium Symphony, Robert Ian Winstin, conductor


The EAMA Prize is awarded to a musical composition of profound artistic message, possessing a unique musical voice, and demonstrating clear, direct power of communication.

The grand prize is a $10,000 cash award. The 2008 EAMA Prize received 190 anonymous submissions of musical compositions from all over the world.

The EAMA Prize and the EAMA/New York Composition Awards are made possible through a generous grant by
The Double-R Foundation

EAMA is a not-for-profit arts organization committed to fostering and promoting the classical arts. Its mission is to teach, to broaden interest in the arts, and to present composers and performers of the highest caliber.

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The Final Jury Members:

Simone Dinnerstein, Pianist
Tanja Dorn, Vice President, Artist Manager IMG Artists
Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean of The Juilliard School; Former Senior Director and Artistic Advisor, Carnegie Hall
Philip Lasser, Composer, President of EAMA Inc. and Professor at The Juilliard School
Russell Platt, A Composer and Music Editor at The New Yorker

 

 

The winner of the 2008 EAMA Prize is:

Gregg Wramage

La Tristesse Durera

for Large Orchestra
 



The EAMA/New York Composition Award is a $500 cash award and is annually awarded to meritorious High School student composers in New York, to foster, support and recognize their endeavors in the art of musical composition.

EAMA is proud to award an EAMA/New York Composition Award to


Christian Cziotka Keen Pirates for Flute, Clarinet and Piano

Claude Baker (b. 1948) attained his doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music, where his principal composition teachers were Samuel Adler and Warren Benson. As a composer, Mr. Baker has received a number of professional honors, including an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards; a “Manuel de Falla” Prize (Madrid); the Eastman- Leonard and George Eastman Prizes; the inaugural “Barto Prize”; BMI- SCA and ASCAP awards; commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations; and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation and the state arts councils of Indiana, Kentucky and New York. At the beginning of the 1991-92 concert season, he was appointed Composer-in-Residence of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for eight years. He is currently Class of 1956 Chancellor’s Professor of Composition in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. Nathaniel Harnack Nathaniel began his musical journey as a saxophonist, playing primarily baritone sax in junior high and high school. During his second year of college, he decided to join choir just for fun. After being struck by how beautiful and powerful the music he sang with the choir was, Nathaniel wrote his first piece for a capella choir - In paradisum in 2001. It was first performed 2 years later by the Chico State A capella Choir and subsequently was published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Nathaniel received his Bachelors Degree in Music and Recording Arts from California State University, Chico and currently lives in Longmont, Colorado.
Anthony Iannaccone (born New York City, 1943) studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music. His principal teachers were Vittorio Giannini, Aaron Copland, and David Diamond. During the 1960's, he supported himself as a part-time teacher (Manhattan School of Music) and orchestral violinist. His catalogue of approximately 50 published works includes three symphonies, smaller works for orchestra, several large works for chorus and orchestra, numerous chamber pieces, large works for wind ensemble, and several extended a cappella choral compositions. His music is performed by major orchestras and professional chamber ensembles in the US and abroad. He is an active conductor of both new music and standard orchestral repertory. Since 1971, he has taught at Eastern Michigan University, where, for 30 years, he conducted the Collegium Musicum in orchestral and choral music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Iannaccone’s WAITING FOR SUNRISE ON THE SOUND was chosen as one of five finalists in the 2001 Masterprize competition from a field of 1151 orchestral works submitted. More information about Iannaccone is available at www.iannacconeworks.com Mark Kilstofte is admired as a composer of lyrical line, engaging harmony, strong, dramatic gesture and keen sensitivity to sound, shape and event. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “exciting and beautiful, consistently gripping,” his music has garnered a growing number of awards and honors including the Rome Prize, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nissim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aaron Copland Award (twice), Gardner Read and Francis & William Schuman Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, as well as commissions from the Dale Warland Singers and the Fromm Foundation. Kilstofte’s compositional style reflects his interest in everything from Gesualdo to Jethro Tull. His innovative approach to form—he is the son of a structural engineer—results in a music of tremendous integrity and clarity which can be humorous one moment, achingly beautiful the next. An experienced performer and conductor, Kilstofte studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, and William Bolcom at the University of Michigan where he was a Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellow and assistant conductor of the new music ensemble, Contemporary Directions. He currently teaches at Furman University. Kilstofte’s music is published by the Newmatic Press. www.furman.edu
The music of Liduino Pitombeira (Brazil, 1962) has been performed by The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Louisiana Sinfonietta, Red Stick Saxophone Quartet, New York University New Music Trio, Orquestra Sinfônica do Recife (Brazil), Syntagma, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), Orchestra de Câmara Eleazar de Carvalho (Brazil) and Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil). He has received many composition awards in Brazil and the USA, including the first prize in the 1998 Camargo Guarnieri Composition Competition and the first prize in the "Sinfonia dos 500 Anos" Composition Contest. He also received the 2003 MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year Award for his piece "Brazilian Landscapes No.1". Recently, two more pieces of his series Brazilian Landscapes (No.2 and No.6) were awarded first prizes in the USA. Pitombeira received his PhD in composition from the Louisiana State University (USA), where he studied with Dinos Constantinides. He is a member of ASCAP, Society of Composer Inc., and Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea. His pieces are published by Edition Peters, Bella Musica, Filarmonika LLC, Cantus Quercus, Conners, Alry, RioArte, and Irmãos Vitale. Presently he teaches composition and theory at Universidade Federal da Paraiba, in Brazil. www.pitombeira.com Thomas Sleeper, hailed by the Miami Herald as “a conductor of persuasive fluency and fiery conviction,” enjoys a dual career as composer and conductor. His oeuvre includes two symphonies, six concerti, four operas, numerous chamber and solo works and music for film. He has written works for some of the finest performers of his generation including Jennifer Culp, formerly of the Kronos Quartet, Stefan de Leval Jezierski of the Berlin Philharmonic; and Craig Morris, former Principal Trumpet of the Chicago Symphony. His music has been performed across Europe, Asia, North and South America. Sleeper’s recorded music is available on Naxos, and Albany Records, and is available for download through iTunes and eMusic. Sleeper is Director of Orchestral Activities at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
Gregg Wramage’s music has been performed by Aspen Sinfonia, eighth blackbird, Collage New Music, New Jersey Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Friends and Enemies of New Music, American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, American Opera Projects, Third Millennium Ensemble, North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra, and pianists Bruce Levingston (Lincoln Center), and Carine Gutlerner (Weill Recital Hall and Paris). He has been a fellow at Yaddo, Copland House, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts; and received the Josef Alexander Award, the Delius Festival Award, the Starer Prize, the Katz Composition Prize, the Sylvia Goldstein Award, the Druckman Prize, and a 2008 N.J. State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. His music has been recorded on Capstone Records and published by Southern Music. Millennium Symphony’s recording of “La tristesse durera” will be released later this month on the first volume of ERM Media’s “Made in the Americas” CD Series.www.greggwramage.com