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Two additional composers will receive honorable mention certificates of award: Jing Jing Luo - Ph.D. in composition from SUNY Stony Brook, and Joyce Solomon Moorman, Ed.D. from Columbia University. The competition was coordinated by Dr. Hansonia Caldwell, a member of the IAWM Board of Directors. The distinguished judging panel included composers Ed Bland, Dr. Deon Nielsen Price and Dr. Jane Brockman.
The IAWM also announces the results of the 18th IAWM (1999) Search for New Music by Women Composers. Five prizes in three categories were awarded. Winner of the First Prize in the Student Composer category is Stacy Garrop, a doctoral student at Indiana University, and previous two-time winner of this award. Her recent performances include the Aspen Music Festival, the North American Saxophone Alliance Region 5 Conference, the Fifth Annual Musica Donne Festival and the Round Top Festival in Texas. Next year she will be in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Villa Montalvo Artist Colony.
Sarana Tzu-Ling Chou, winner of the Second Prize, was born in Taiwan and is the youngest winner of the Taiwan National Composition Competition (1989, 1990). She has studied composition with Gordon Chin since 1995 and is currently a student of Samuel Adler at The Juilliard School. She is the recipient of the Richard Rogers Scholarship, the Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize, the Albert Szirmai Scholarship and the 1997 Taiwan National Gifted Students Competition.
Erin Hollins is the winner of the Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize (for women 21 and under). She is a double major in music and psychology at Oberlin College, and has written numerous folk/blues songs, as well as works for a variety of instrumental ensembles. Her high school training included electronic music at California Institute of the Arts and acoustic composition at The Walden School. In 1996 she was named a California Arts Scholar.
Tied for First Prize in the Miriam Gideon category (for women 50 and over) are Janice Hamer and Ruth Lomon.
Dr. Janice Hamer, a graduate of Harvard University, Westminster Choir College and City University of New York, is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. Among her honors are fellowships and grants from the Bunting Institute, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, American Music Center, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Arts Councils, ASCAP and Meet the Composer. In 1993 she was the winner of the Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Competition. She is currently composing an opera with assistance from American Opera Projects.
Ruth Lomon is a Resident Scholar in the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University. She has received grants and awards from the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, the New England Arts Commission, the New Mexico Arts Division and the NEA. Most recently her trumpet concerto was commissioned and premiered by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra with Charles Schlueter of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In the fall she will begin a six-month residency in Tokyo, where she will interview members of the Japanese Federation of Women Composers.
The judges for this year's competition were Dr. Deborah Kavasch, Professor of Music Theory/Composition and Voice at California State University, Stanislaus, and Dr. Zae Munn, Associate Professor of Music at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Dr. Marilyn Shrude, Director of the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music and Chair of the Department of Composition and History at Bowling Green State University, served as contest coordinator.
