Award-winning Music Composer & Orchestrator

The American Prize 2022~Finalist!

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I am delighted to announce that I am a finalist in The American Prize 2022  music competition. My orchestral work, Soundness of the Sea for Violin and Orchestra, is among the  17 finalist in the Orchestral Division.  The competition receives submission from hundreds of composers throughout the United States and I am indeed ecstatic to be on this list! For complete list to this link  Here

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David Volosin Katz, founder and chief judge, is honored to announce 2022 FINALIST composers of orchestra music in the professional division.  Congratulations! (The professional division finalists were announced on Monday, April 25, 2022)

As the contests unfold, runners-up and winners will be selected from this list. To know the exact date when finalists will be announced, please like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter #AmericanPrize, where that information will be published first.

 

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings. Now in its twelfth year, The American Prize was founded in 2010 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Thousands of artists from all fifty states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of The American Prize, representing literally hundreds of communities and arts organizations across the nation.  Information about the 2022-23 season of contests has been updated and applications are now being accepted. (http://theamericanprize.org)

Soundness of the Sea for Violin and Orchestra is the first movement from the Quintet Suite~Sirens of the Salish Sea. I am in the process of orchestrating the entire work and will announce when complete. The Score and Parts for Soundness of the Sea are available at JWPepper HERE