2011 Barlow Winners
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The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University takes pleasure in announcing commission winners for 2011. After reviewing 170 composer applications from several countries worldwide, the judging panel awarded Clint Needham of Delaware, Ohio, the $12,000 Barlow Prize to compose a major new work for woodwind quintet. The panel also granted Jack Perla of San Francisco the distinction of Honorable Mention in this competition.
Dr. Needham has two graduate composition degrees from Indiana University where he garnered a four-year Jacobs School of Music doctoral fellowship. His composition teachers there included Claude Baker, David Dzubay and Michael Gandolfi. He also studied with Robert Beaser, Christopher Rouse, and George Tsontakis. His extensive list of awards, residencies, commissions, and fellowships includes (among many others) the Charles Ives Scholarship, Missou/Alarm Will Sound New Music Festival, Jacob Druckman Prize, and multiple citations from BMI and ASCAP. He publishes with Theodore Presser Co. and records with Summit Records. For more information, please click here.
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In considering 106 applications in our General and LDS commissioning programs the Endowment granted $63,000 to eleven composers who will write works for the following ensembles and musicians: Ted Hearne (A Far Cry); Mathew Rosenblum (Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble); Tarik O’Regan (Utah Chamber Artists); Evis Sammoutis (New York Woodwind Quintet); Michael Quell (Strung Out Trio and Ensemble Adventure); Peter Van Zandt Lane (Quux Collective); Jack Perla (Two Sense); Neil Thornock (Will Kimball and Brigham Young University Philharmonic); Benjamin Taylor (Omaha Symphony); Christian Asplund (tenor and BYU Chamber Orchestra); and Douglas Pew (Mark Tollefsen/piano).
The judging panel included the Endowment’s Board of Advisors: Steven Ricks, David Rakowski, Ethan Wickman, Todd Coleman, and Stacy Garrop. Keith Bradshaw served as a guest judge in the deliberations. Adam Marks, Laurie Baefsky and April Clayton represented the Fifth House, Imani Winds, and Orpheus Winds woodwind quintets. These three ensembles comprise the Endowment’s performing consortium that will premiere the new work in 2013.
The Endowment wishes to thank all composers and ensembles who applied for commissions. Because of limited resources and difficult economic times, the Endowment regrets that many deserving composers and their projects went unfunded this year. Next year’s Barlow Prize will feature a new work for a capella choir. You should receive information regarding the details after the first of the year.