CHORAL FINALIST COMPOSERS: major works, The American Prize, 2024

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David Volosin Katz, founder and chief judge, is honored to announce NATIONAL FINALIST composers of major choral works, 2024. Congratulations! To know the exact date when winners and runners-up will be announced, please like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter #AmericanPrize, where that information will be published first.

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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 fourteenth 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 2024-25 season of contests is now available and applications are being accepted, with preliminary deadlines in May & July. (http://theamericanprize.org)

At The American Prize there is never a preset number of finalists in any division—finalists are those artists who are judged to be worthy of additional consideration and evaluation. Contestants, therefore, do not compete against each other, but in relation to judges’ perceived impression of an artistic ideal.

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.

NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize in Composition—major choral works, 2024

Aaron Alter
Carlsbad CA
Earth Cantata

David Avshalomov
Santa Monica CA
3 Water Songs

Doug Brandt
Chicago IL
For Paul

Michael Bussewitz-Quarm
Sound Beach NY
Peacebomb

Augusta Cecconi-Bates
Cape Vincent NY
We Have a Dream

Nell Shaw Cohen
High Falls NY
Sauntering Songs

John Crabtree
Conroe TX
Requiem (2020)

Andrea Reinkemeyer
Springfield VA
The Thaw

Craig Sandford
Mount Hermon MA
Eight Poems of Wendell Berry

Nicholas Weininger
San Francisco CA
Hakol Hevel (All is Mere Breath)