1991 International Competition Winners
his year, as there were two award categories, the winning works were Among Friends for clarinet, violin and piano, by Chan Ka Nin of Toronto, Canada; and Scenes from the Brothers Grimm for Brass Quintet by Timothy Greatbatch of Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Chan’s piece was played by the Carnegie Chamber Players at the Chamber Music America Showcase in San Francisco (Jan 1992). Mr Greatbatch’s piece is scheduled for performance by the Empire Brass in their next season.
Other Commissioning Programs Winners
The Endowment also granted awards in its commissioning programs to thirteen other composers, who were commissioned to compose pieces for the following ensembles, listed below.
| General Commission Recipients | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Danielpour | String Quartet No. 2 | Muir Quartet |
| Michelle Ekizian | Saber Dances | Westchester Orchestra |
| Maurice Gardner | Five Bagatelles | Dalton/Barrus Duo |
| Adolphus Hailstork | Festival Music | Baltimore Symphony |
| Remigijus Merkelys | Missa “L’homme Armé” | Juana Muzika Choral Society |
| George Tsontakis | Perpetual Solitude | Hudson Valley Chamber Orchestra |
| Andy Vores | Wetherby Nocturne | Kathleen Supove (piano) |
| Henry Wolking | Forever Yesterday (El Ayer, Siempre) | Boise Chamber Orchestra and Idaho Ballet |
| LDS Commission Recipients | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Cundick | Sonata for Violincello and Piano | Drinkall-Baker Duo |
| Daniel Gawthrop | Tuffer and the Gruffs | American Boys Choir |
| Brent Pierce | Jesus the Christ | Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square |
| Marden Pond | Gebunge | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company |
| David Sargent | Five Sketches for Brass Quintet | Eastman Brass |
Premieres and Performances
Augusta Read Thomas’ Haiku (Barlow Commission 1990) was performed April 28, 1991 by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players.
Dave Zabriskie’s Starret Lake (Barlow Commission 1987) was performed again by the Cleveland Octet. He has also had recent performances by the Chicago Piano Quartet, William Derger, and the Chicago String Ensemble with Lyon Leifer.
Eric Stokes’ Ghost Bus to Eldorado (Barlow Commission 1990) premiered at Carnegie Hall last year.
Mark Phillips’ Turning, the co-winner of the 1988 Barlow International Competition in Orchestral Music, was recently performed at the Blossom Festival with Leonard Slatkin conducting the Cleveland Orchestra.
1990 International Competition Winners
For more information about
David Gillingham, Barlow Competition Winner, consult his website.
he winning work this year was Heroes, Lost and Fallen, by David Gillingham of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. There were 103 entries in this year’s competition with some 30 states and several foreign countries represented. Jack Gallagher of Wooster, Ohio, and James DeMars of Tempe, Arizona were given honorable mentions. The winning work was performed by the University of Illinois Band at the CBDNA convention in Kansas City on February 20. The invited judges were Richard Strange of Tempe, Arizona, and Larry Curtis of Long Beach, California, both prominent Band Directors.
Other Commissioning Programs Winners
The Endowment also granted awards in its commissioning programs to thirteen other composers, who were commissioned to compose pieces for the following ensembles, listed below.
| General Commission Recipients | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastian Currier | Vocalissimus | Consortium |
| Robert Maggio | Imaginary Dances | Oakland East Bay Symphony |
| David Ott | Concerto for Tenor and Saxophone and Orchestra | Canton Symphony |
| Alice Parker | That Sturdy Vine | Vancouver Chamber Choir & Orchestra |
| Christopher Rouse | Karolju | Baltimore Symphony |
| David Stock | The Center Holds | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra |
| Eric Stokes | The Ghost Bus to Eldorado | American Composer’s Orchestra |
| Augusta Read Thomas | Haiku | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players |
| Dan Locklair | Concerto Grosso | Barbara Harbach (harpsichord) |
| Chinary Ung | Grand Spiral | Arizona University Band |
| LDS Commission Recipients | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Newel Kay Brown | Flowers Over the Wall | Carter Enyeart (cello) Denton Chamber Orchestra |
| Darwin Wolford | Psalms of Beauty, Psalms of Light | American West Symphony & Chorus |
| Special Commission Winner | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Schwantner | “Evening Land” Symphony | St. Louis Symphony |
Premieres and Performances
P remieres were given during the year to Barlow Commissioned works by Ezra Laderman, Deon Nielson Price, Rowan Taylor, Daniel Gawthrop, Daren Hagen, John Goodman, Michael Runyan, Richard Danielpour, Stephen Jones, Chinary Ung (2), Paul Moravec, and Augusta Read Thomas.
1986 International Competition Winners
he winning work this year was Winds of Nagual for band. The piece was written by Michael Colgrass of Toronto, Canada.
The Endowment would also like to recognize the following composers for their works, which the judges deemed worthy of honorable mention:
Brent Heisinger of San Jose State University for his Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion; David Maslanka, of New York, for Symphony No. 2 for concert band; Robert Xavier Rodriguez of Texas, for Seven Deadly Sins suite for band; Stanley Walden of New York, for Invisible Cities; and Bent Lorentzen of Denmark, for Deep, his concerto for alto saxophone, winds, and percussion.
Other Commissioning Programs Winners
The Endowment also granted awards in its commissioning programs to seven other composers, who were commissioned to compose pieces for the following ensembles, listed below.
| General Commission Recipients | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Kathryn Alexander | The Azure That Is Darkness | Vivace at Tulane University |
| Shulamit Ran | not completed | Vivace at Tulane University |
| Robert Rodriguez | Jargon (renamed We the People) | Knoxville and Dallas symphonies |
| Debroah Drattell | The Fire Within | Ransom Wilson (flute) and Richmond Symphony |
| LDS Commission Recipients | Piece | Premiering Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Harriet P. Bushman | Cantata No. 1 Now Behold, A Marvellous Work | London Church Choir |
| Stephen Jones | Penumbral Tapestries | Emory University Wind Ensemble |
| Joseph Downing | Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Orchestral Winds | Northwestern University Wind ensemble |
Premieres and Performances
P remiere performances were given in Buffalo of Lukas Foss’ Renaissance Concerto with Carol Wincenc as soloist. In Chicago the premiere of David Zabriskie’s Saurus: A Concerto for Cello and String Ensemble was premiered with Julie Zumsteg as soloist.
Premieres of Barlow pieces
isted below are the Barlow premieres and the premiering ensembles from 1983-1993.
| Year | General Commission Recipients | Piece | Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Lukas Foss | Renaissance Concerto | Carol Wincenc and the Buffalo Philharmonic |
| 1987 | Ezra Laderman | Second Piano Concerto | Emmanuel Ax and the American Composer’s Orchestra |
| Gyorgi Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | King’s Singers | |
| Joan Tower | Violin Concerto | Elmar Oliveira and the Utah Symphony | |
| Linda Williams | Variations on an American Theme | Norwalk Youth Symphony | |
| 1988 | Judith Shatin Allen | Three Summers Heat | Marilyn Boyd DeReggi and the Sistrum New Music Ensemble |
| John Goodman | String Quartet No. 2 | Muir Quartet | |
| Daron Hagen | Common Ground | Milwaukee Symphony | |
| Lowell Liebermann | Sonata for Flute and Guitar | Paul Robison and Eliot Fisk | |
| Michael Schelle | Restless Dreams Before the Big Night | Kansas City Symphony | |
| 1989 | Richard Danielpour | Metamorphosis | New York Chamber Symphony |
| William Kraft | Song of Flowers, Bells, and Death | BYU Percussion Group with Choir | |
| Paul Moravec | Spiritdance | Santa Cruz Symphony | |
| Thea Musgrave | Wind Quintet | Orpheus Winds | |
| Gunther Schuller | The Past is in the Present | Cincinnati Symphony | |
| Chinary Ung | String Quartet No. 1 | Vermeer Quartet | |
| 1992 | William Bolcom | Lyric Concerto | James Galway and the St. Louis Symphony |
| Wen-Chung Chou | Clouds | Cleveland Quartet | |
| Nathan Currier | Two Pieces for Harp | Marie-Pierre Langlamet | |
| Jonathan Kramer | Notta Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | Cincinnati Percussion | |
| Cindy McTee | The Twittering Machine | Pittsburg New Music Ensemble | |
| 1993 | Stephen Scott | Music for Bowed Piano and Chamber Orchestra | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra |
| Year | LDS Commission Recipients | Piece | Ensemble(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Robert Cundick | Song of the Heart | Mormon Tabernacle Brass Quintet |
| Daniel Gawthrop | Esther | Church Choir in DC | |
| Robert Manookin | Rabboni | Mormon Tabernacle Choir | |
| Deon Nielson Price | Two Cantatas | Rowan Taylor | |
| David Sargent | Intarsia | John Marcellus and the Rochester Philharmonic Brass | |
| David Zabriskie | Sauros | Julie Zumsteg and the Chicago String Ensemble | |
| 1985 | Robert Rowberry | Brass Quintet | Cincinnati Bass |
| Rowan Taylor | Violin Concerto No. 2 | Los Angeles Pierce College with Mark Taylor | |
| 1987 | Lynn Shurtleff | Laugh Clown | San Jose Ballet |
| David Zabriskie | Starret Lake | Cleveland Octet | |
| 1988 | Daniel Gawthrop | Three Nocturnes | Arlington String Orchestra |
| 1989 | Stephen Jones | The Image of the Singing Air | Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra |
| Michael Runyan | The Age of the Offered Hand | Indianapolis Symphony | |
| David Zabriskie | Mirrored Illusions | Chicago Piano Quartet | |
| 1992 | Glenn Palmer | Elysian Spheres, Symphony for Band | University of Michigan Band |