Finalists: American Music (ensembles)—The Ernst Bacon Memorial Award, 2021
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Among the many contests of The American Prize, the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music is unique. It recognizes and rewards the best performances of American music by ensembles and individual artists worldwide, based on submitted recordings. Applications are accepted from professional, college/university, community and high school age solo artists, chamber ensembles or conducted ensembles, competing in separate divisions, and from composers with excellent recordings of their works. Beginning in 2017-18, categories were expanded to encompass performances of American music in practically any instrumentation or genre, with very few repertoire restrictions.
Focused exclusively on works by American composers from any period and in any style, the contest not only judges performances, but in the case of new or unfamiliar works, the music itself.
Ernst Bacon (1898—1990) was one of that pioneering generation of composers who, along with Thomson, Copland, Harris, and others, found a voice for American music. Winner of a Pulitzer Scholarship (for his Symphony in D minor) and no fewer than three Guggenheim Fellowships, Ernst Bacon set out to create compositions that expressed the vitality and affirmative spirit of our country. It is fitting, and with honor, that The American Prize creates an annual award in the memory of Ernst Bacon, recognizing the finest performances of American orchestral music worldwide. To learn more about the music & legacy of Ernst Bacon, please visit the website of the Ernst Bacon Society.
The American Prize is the nation's most comprehensive series of non-profit competitions in the performing arts, unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. The American Prize was founded in 2010 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts.
We invite finalists to make the most of their selection by announcing it on their facebook page, tweeting the news, and including a link to this announcement on their website or blog. A sample announcement may be found at the end of the post.
Nancy Braithwaite
Hemenway Ensemble
The Netherlands
Four Poems of Langston Hughes
Oliver Caplan
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Boston MA
American Mirror (Derrick Spiva Jr.)
Rebecca Johnson
Trio Village
Muncie IN
Trio for Flute, Oboe, and Piano (Musgrave); Minatures (Still)
Nanette McGuinness
Ensemble for These Times
San Francisco CA
Interlude 2 from Die eichne Tur (Garner); By a Departing Light (Larsen); Three Etudes (Garner);
Dean Whiteside
Musicians of the New World Symphony
Miami Beach FL
Music for Eighteen Winds (Harbison)
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize ERNST BACON MEMORIAL AWARD for the PERFORMANCE of AMERICAN MUSIC, PROFESSIONAL ensemble/conducting division, 2021
Jon L. Culpepper
Dallas Chamber Choir
Dallas TX
Specks of Earth (Steffen); Refuge; Good Night Love; (Hagenberg)
Tigran Shiganyan
The National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan
Tashkent Uzbekistan
Overture to Candide, Rumble from West Side Story
Nathan Zullinger
Emanuele Arcioli, Viva Voce, Yale Symphony Orchestra
New Haven CT
Armed and Dangerous, Seven Women of Ancient Greek Myth (Curt Cacioppo)
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize ERNST BACON MEMORIAL AWARD for the PERFORMANCE of AMERICAN MUSIC, COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY ensemble/conducting division, 2021
Dustin Barr
California State University Fullerton Wind Symphony
Fullerton CA
First Symphony for Band (Bolcom)
Nicholas Bratcher
CSUSB Symphonic Band
San Bernardino CA
Shenandoah; Black Dog (McAllister); Sheltering Sky (Mackey)
Stephen E. Caldwell
University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum
Fayetteville AR
Plain-Chant for America (Still)
Alexandra Dee
Northwestern University Ad Hoc String Orchestra
Evanston IL
Lua Descolorida (Golijov); The Nature of Light; Particles (Shape Shifter) (Gandolfi)
Edo Frenkel
Eastman Musica Nova
Rochester NY
Anthem (George Lewis)
Jeremy D. Jones
Miami University Men's Glee Club
Oxford OH
We Are (Johnson); Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (Barnum); Will the Circle be Unbroken (Moore); Glory (Rogers)
Thomas G. Leslie
UNLV Wind Orchestra
Las Vegas NV
Quaternity (Bruce Broughton)
Kypros Markou
Wayne State University Orchestra
Detroit MI
Serenade for Strings (Foote) Transcension (Moore)
Samuel Mungo
Peabody Institute Opera Theatre
Baltimore MD
Pride and Prejudice (Kirke Mechem)
Vu Nguyen
University of CT Wind Ensemble
Storrs CT
Christina's World (Kenneth Fuchs)
Nathaniel F. Parker
KSU Symphony & Jazz Ensemble
Kennesaw GA
Harlem (Duke Ellington)
Danh T. Pham
WA State University Festival of Contemporary Art Music Wind
Pullman WA
Double Concerto for Trumpet, Timpani and Wind Ensemble (Ryan Hare)
Chris Ramos
UNM Chamber Players
Albuquerque NM
Abu (George Walker)
Scott Rieker
Frostburg State University Chamber Singers
Frostburg MD
So I’ll Sing with My Voice; Ave Maria; Until All of Us Are Free (Argento; Lauridsen; Burrows)
Richard W. Robbins
University of Minnesota Duluth University Singers
Duluth MN
Music of Love and the Stars (Jeffrey Van)
Catherine Sailer
University of Denver Lamont Chorale
Denver CO
O Magnum (Lauridsen); Spirited Light, And so I go on (Runestad), Chichester Psalms
Tom Trenney
Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir
Lincoln NE
A Silence Haunts Me; One Sweet Little Baby; Walk Together, Children (Runestad; Kirchner; Hogan)
Luis Viquez
University of South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
Vermillion SD
Breathe; On Peaks and Clouds; Psalms (Wehrspann; Morel; Yarbrough)
Chris David Westover-Munoz
Denison University Wind Ensemble
Granville OH
Piano Concerto No 1 (HyeKyung Lee); Meditation No. 2 from MASS
Brian J. Winnie
Western Illinois University Singers
Macomb IL
Considering Matthew Shepard (Craig Hella Johnson)
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize ERNST BACON MEMORIAL AWARD for the PERFORMANCE of AMERICAN MUSIC, COMMUNITY ensemble/conducting division, 2021
William Baker
The William Baker Festival Singers
Roeland Park KS
God is Seen; O Magnum; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. Parker; Davis; arr. Parker), more
Ryan Brandau
Princeton Pro Musica
Princeton NJ
A Procession Winding Around Me (Van); Triptych (O’Regan); Fern Hill (Corigilano)
Ryan Brandau
Amor Artis
New York NY
The the Hands (Shaw), Ave Maria (Lauridsen), Prepare for Death and Follow Me (Burhans)
Libi Lebel
Texas Medical Center Orchestra
Houston TX
Cuban Overture; Lincoln Portrait
Ingrid Martin
University of Melbourne All Staff Orchestra
Melbourne Australia
Bloom (Steven Bryant)
Eric Posada
Pasion
McAllen TX
Light Shines in the Darkness (Michael John Trotta)
Diane Retallack
Eugene Vocal Arts
Eugene OR
The Unarmed Child (Michael Bussewitz-Quarm)
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize ERNST BACON MEMORIAL AWARD for the PERFORMANCE of AMERICAN MUSIC, SCHOOL & YOUTH ensemble/conducting division, 2021
Harold Goldstein
Newfield HS Wind Ensemble
Selden NY
Midnight on Main Street (Balmages); Song of Sailor and Sea (Smith)
Douglas R. Henderson
The Phillips Trio
Raleigh NC
Allegro; Rubato, Andante moderato (Paul Schoenfield)
Mary Huff
NYC Children's Chorus and Chamber Orchestra
New York NY
The Place of the Blest (Randall Thompson)
Wes Kenney
Denver Young Artists Orchestra
Denver CO
Ellis Island-The Dream of America (Peter Boyer)
Jim Kollias
Beckman HS Chamber Orchestra
Irvine CA
Lullaby: String Serenade, I & III; Air & Simple Gifts
Mark Rohwer
Flower Mound HS Jaguar Chorale
Flower Mound TX
Cells Planets (Lloyd/Peterson); I carry your heart (Dickau); Incendiary (Thomas)
Patrick Ryan
Great Falls HS Delphian Choir
Great Falls MT
Fragile; Moments in Film; The Longest Nights (Timothy Takach)
Clinton L. Williams
The Rancho HS Wind Ensemble
Las Vegas NV
the field well (Nicholas Omiccioli)
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