Award-winning Music Composer & Orchestrator

The American Prize 2022

The American Prize Winner 2023!

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Press Release: Seattle composer, Nan Avant is the Winner of The American Prize 2023:
Composition, Pops/Light Music division, for her piece entitled “Tributum.”  Tributum for Celtic Bagpipes and Orchestra appears on the Navona Records album, Legends and Light v.2 performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, a PARMA recordings label.

Avant’s music was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States. 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 thirteenth 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.

Link to official announcement

Composer’s Biographical Sketch:

Avant’s music awards and nominations include two Global Music Awards~Silver Medal 2022, a Finalist in The American Prize and a four-time nominee in the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Avant’s ’Tributum’ has aired on Ireland’s Public Radio in the UK and throughout the U.S. Avant has scored numerous indie films and her concert music has been performed in the U.S. and internationally. Avant holds a B.F.A. degree in Piano Performance from California Institute of the Arts and has studied film scoring at the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring institute. www.nanavant.com 

WEBSITE: www.theamericanprize.org

BLOG: www.theamericanprize.blogspot.com

CONTACT: David Katz, chief judge of The American Prize

EMAIL: theamericanprize@gmail.co

For Your Consideration ~66th GRAMMY® Award

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FYC: Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

SIRENS OF THE SALISH SEA:1. SOUNDNESS OF THE SEA FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA

Appears on the  album Symphonic Chronicles v. 1- track #8

More information and listening links

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FYC: Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

REMEMORAMINI- a tango, milonga

Rememoramini appears on the album Dimensions v.5-see track #1, a Navona Records, PARMA Recording.

More Information and Listening Links

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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

 

The American Prize~ Semi-Finalist 2022

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I am pleased to announce that my orchestral work, Soundness of the Sea from the Quintet Suite, Sirens of the

Salish Sea, is a semi-finalist in the Composers Music For Orchestra category of The American Prize 2022.

The list includes many accomplished composers (the list below is only the first half  the semi-finalists) with their original orchestral works and this competition is very competitive indeed! I am extremely grateful to be on this list!

Updates later as to the finalist will be. The American Prize Website  and the complete list of semi-finalist: