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 shorter 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.
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize in Composition—shorter choral works (professional division), 2024
David Avshalomov
Santa Monica CA
Light Dawns in the Darkness
Bruce Babcock
Pasadena CA
ALL UNTO ME
Doug Brandt
Chicago IL
Do Not Go Gentle
Julian David Bryson
Jacksonville FL
A Riddle; Justify This Day
Joshua Fishbein
Rockville MD
Allahu Echad (God is One)
Dave Froman
Falls Church VA
Earth Teach Me
Eric Heilner
Montclair NJ
Laws of God, Laws of Man
Zebulon M. Highben
Duham NC
Easter Dawn; God Alone Be Praised: AD LUCEM
Austin Jaquith
Cedarville OH
Purge Me With Hyssop
Terre Johnson
Statesboro GA
Create in Me
Brian Jones
Southington CT
It May Be
Kelvyn Koning
Dorchester MA
The Three Goddesses; A Hymn to the Evening; Stardust
Isaac Lovdahl
Fargo ND
The Orange (with Simple Gifts)
Jack McLaughlin
Pittsburgh PA
Peace
Vasiliy Medved
Boston MA
Psalm 67 for Choir and Chimes
John Muehleisen
Mukilteo WA
Kyrie in angustiis; The Stars Still Shine
Denise M. Rippentrop
Scottsdale AZ
Behold, My God is My Salvation
Kira Zeeman Rugen
Scottsdale AZ
The Eternal Spark
Kurt Sander
Cincinnati OH
He Made the Moon
Craig Sandford
Mount Hermon MA
Hold
Gerald Stahl
Minneapolis MN
The Time is Come
Alan Stein
Aurora CO
The Sound of the World
Mari Esabel Valverde
Fort Worth TX
We Hold Your Names Sacred
Kyle Vanderburg
Fargo ND
Carving a Name
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize in Composition—shorter choral works (college/university division), 2024
Madeline Clara Cheng
Los Altos CA
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Elisa Kain Johnson
Seattle WA
La Promesa
Jane (Evgeniya) Kozhevnikova
Gainesville FL
Let Them Be Found
Veronica Leahy
Lexington MA
Hold Fast to Dreams
Joaquin Lichtle-Prieto
Puebla MX
El Mar
Jacky Jiaqi Liu
New York NY
Why Can’t We See the Rainbow
David Bentley Walters
Baton Rouge LA
Toward a Star
Anthony Washington
Prescott AR
Immortality
Yiran Zhao
Basking Ridge NJ
This is not a Story. This is how I Lived
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize in Composition—shorter choral works (high school division), 2024
Hunter Johnson
Mechanicsville VA
In A Time of War
Sonia Pradhan Lackey
Princeton NJ
A Bird’s Song
Aadit Shrivastava
Short Hills NJ
Our World
Henry Wang
Pittsburgh PA
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
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