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For more information on EAMA, please visit
www.eamusic.org
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
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| Anthony Iannaccone Journeys,
for Clarinet and String Quartet |
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| Mark Kilstofte Of Rivers Within,
for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra |
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| Liduino Pitombeira Brazilian Landscapes
#1 for Violin, 'Cello and Piano |
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Thomas Sleeper Symphony #1
for Large Orchestra
Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Paul Phillips, conductor. |
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Gregg Wramage La
Tristesse Durera for Large Orchestra
Millennium Symphony, Robert Ian Winstin, conductor |
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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.
For more information on EAMA,
please visit www.eamusic.org
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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
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The winner of the 2008
EAMA Prize is:
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Gregg Wramage |
La Tristesse Durera |
for Large Orchestra |
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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.
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EAMA is proud to award an EAMA/New York Composition Award
to
Christian Cziotka Keen Pirates for Flute,
Clarinet and Piano
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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
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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 |
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