Small Ensemble Division
1st Place
Gianluca Verlingieri, Ghedini State Conservatory, Cuneo, Italy
Schubert Fragmente (violin, cello, and piano)
Born
in Italy in 1976, Gianluca Verlingieri received degrees in piano and
electronic music with first-class honors from “Ghedini”
State Conservatory, where he’s about to obtain a degree in experimental
composition under the guide of Paolo Minetti. He’s also currently
pursuing a degree in musicology at Turin University (working on a dissertation
on Mauricio Kagel’s music with his support) and he’s attending
to Master’s courses in composition held by Azio Corghi at “Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” (Rome) and by Fabio Vacchi and Alberto
Colla at “Ca’ Zenobio” and “Lorenzo Perosi”
International Academies. He also studied at “Accademia Chigiana”
(Siena), obtaining a “Diploma with merit”, and he was shortlisted
to attend composers programs and workshops (EarLab 2007 in Stresa (Italy)
and Bergen (Norway), Genoa Musical Meetings (winning the Garrone Foundation
scholarship), Campus Giovani Artisti d’Europa, OuterLimits international
project, Compositori a Confronto, Archart project of the European Commission
for Culture etc.),and masterclasses with Klangforum Wien (at Venice
Biennale), Luca Francesconi, Michel Pascal, Claude Cadoz, Mauro Lanza,
Philip Samartzis, Luigi Verdi, The Hub Ensemble, Colette Hochain, Gilberto
Bosco, Håkon Austbø and others. As a perfomer he took
part in contemporary music festivals as “Manca” (Nice),
“La costruzione del suono” (Venice), Elettrosensi (Como),
Sala Tartini di Trieste etc., also in the role of sound projectionist
and live-electronics performer. Within the space of a few years Verlingieri’s
music has been selected and received awards, recognitions or performance
from, among others, the Ciani Prize, the International Competition
City of Pescara, the Caffa-Righetti International Competition, the
Franco Evangelisti International Competition, The Musica Nuova Festival
International Competition, the Italian Ministry of University and Research
Prize, the Cincinnati Camerata International Competition (finalist),
the IBLA Foundation Grand Prix (New York, admitted to the final round,
summer 2007) and is performed throughout Italy (e. g. at Nuova Consonanza
Festival, Rome; Lingotto Musica, Turin; GAM, Genoa; Settimane musicali
di Stresa International Festival; Estate Musicale Chigiana; Siena),
Denmark (Aarhus University), Mexico (Musica y escena Festival, Mexico
City, in collaboration with the bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood and
the composer Stefano Bassanese), USA (INsideOUT, Florida and Belvedere
Chamber Music Festival, Memphis) and Australia (Melbourne, RMIT Gallery
and School of Arts) by renowned musicians, like the pianist Massimiliano
Damerini, to name one. The flutist Robert Dick has recently selected
Gianluca Verlingieri as associated composer in residence at the Atlantic
Center for the Arts (Florida). As a first place winner of the 2007
Beethoven Club Composition Contest of Memphis he has also been awarded
a full scholarship to attend the 2007 ISAM conference for composers
to be held in August in Michelstadt, Germany, featuring Jan Jirásek
and Ofer Ben-Amots among the faculty composers.
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2nd Place
Elliott Bark, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Duo for Flute and Cello
Elliott
Bark (b. 1980) had served as a pianist in the Republic of Korea Navy
Band for the General of the Ministry of National Defense in Korea from
2001 to 2003 after he studied composition for three years with Jong
Uk Kim at Kyung Sung University. In 2003, he was a first place recipient
of the 2003 Korean Anglican Church Music Composition Competition with
his choir piece “Hallelujah!” and Yesol Publishing Co.,
Seoul, Korea, has published the piece. After finishing his military
service, he arrived at Los Angeles where his whole family was immigrated.
In 2005, Bark transferred to Jacobs School of Music for his Bachelor
of Music in Composition. He studied with P.Q. Phan and Don Freund.
His Good Fight and Race for saxophone quartet (AATB) was performed
in 2007 Midwest Composer’s Symposium. In the 2007 Beethoven Club
Student Composition Contest, his Duo for flute and Cello won second
place and will be performed by Luna Nova New Music Ensemble in the
Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Memphis, TN. He is completing his
degree this year with high distinction and will pursue his Master of
Music in Composition at Jacobs School of Music from fall 2007.
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3rd Place
Ho-Man Tin, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Samsara (The Cycle of Existence) (violin, cello, and piano)
Ho-Man
Tin was born on January 9, 1981 in Hong Kong, China. He is a self-taught
guitarist, and formed a band playing pop and rock music in high school.
With the determination of studying music, he went to the Berklee College
of Music studying both traditional and jazz music, and currently dual
majoring in both Composition and Film Scoring. He performed in several
classical guitar quartet recitals and played in many students’
film scoring sessions and other projects for diverse styles of music.
He focused immensely on developing an individual voice compositionally
and many of his work were performed by the Triple Helix Piano Trio,
the Esterhazy String Quartet and the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, etc.
He have been receiving directed guidance in composition by Alla E.
Cohen, Yakov Gubanov and Vuk Kulenovic, who are highly distinguished
composers. He has also had comprehensive studies in conducting with
David Callahan.
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Organ Division
Tom
Peterson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Ballade
Tom
Peterson is a composer, conductor, and performer from Phoenix, Arizona
studying at Arizona State University. His musical interests and writings
are diverse harmonically and stylistically, stretching from concert
music to jazz and musical theatre in composition and performance, including
more than a half-dozen film scores. The ASU Symphony Orchestra premiered
his work, Monolith, in February 2007 as the winner of the ASU Orchestral
Competition, and during the summer of 2007 he will study at the Cortona
Contemporary Music Festival in Italy. His choral piece, A Gentle Whisper,
was recently performed at the SCI National Conference in San Antonio,
and his work has thrice been selected for AMEA’s Young Composers
Concerts. In addition to his primary composition teachers, Jody Rockmaker,
Rodney Rogers, and James DeMars, Tom has taken private lessons with
guest-composers John Mackey and John Corigliano. For more information,
including audio samples, please visit TomPetersonMusic.com.
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