This competition recognizes the accomplishments of IAWM member composers and fosters IAWM’s goal of increasing awareness of the musical contributions of women. IAWM hopes that performers around the world will see this music as a resource for their own concert programming.

 

Past Winners By Year

 

 

2020 – 39th IAWM Search for New Music

This competition recognizes the accomplishments of IAWM member composers and fosters IAWM’s goal of increasing awareness of the musical contributions of women. IAWM hopes that performers around the world will see this music as a resource for their own concert programming. There were 75 submissions from 17 countries around the world.

 

Winners in the various categories are:

2020 Ruth Anderson Commission Prize ($1,000)

sponsored by Ruth Anderson, for a new sound installation with electro-acoustic music.

Winner: No awardee

 

2020 Christine Clark/Theodore Front Prize ($500),

sponsored by Christine Clark of Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., for a large chamber work (for 9+ instruments) and/or orchestral works; may include works featuring soloist (vocal or instrumental).

Winner: Qingye Wu “Dream My Dream”

 

2020 Miriam Gideon Prize ($500),

sponsored by Lucille Field Goodman, to a composer at least 50 years of age for a work for solo voice & 1-5 instruments.

Winner: Rachael Coleman “The Witness”

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Rachael Coleman is a transgender composer, conductor, and comedian. She taught music composition and theory for 30 years at Hong Kong BaptistUniversitywhilepresentingasmale. Hermusicrangesfromlarge-scale multimedia/improvisation pieces to works for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, instrumental solo, fixed media, and voice. Her CD Multiple Worlds is published by Ablaze Records. She is a founding member of People’s Liberation Improv, Hong Kong’s longest-running comedy improv troupe, and has performed with them in Beijing, Seoul, and Manila. A trans-media artist, she also works in painting, sculpture and computer graphics and performs stand-up comedy under the name Rose Rage. She is the author of the article Creativity, Comedy, and Composition.

The Witness is the central point in my five-song cycle, Disappearances, on poems by my mother, Mary Ann Coleman. Theoutersongsareaboutfamily:parents/dyingintochildren. Thesecondandfourthsongsaboutmy grandmother’s madness and my mother’s own mental problems: An otherness the child listened to/and still listens to… The Witness, a love song from my mother to my father, serves as something of an eye of the hurricane, a moment of sweet calm in the center of the ominous tempest: I turn to you, clothed in my smooth skin,/and feel my breathing tighten;/witness your face that will last in a pattern/meshed in my brain when this furniture has fallen/towardruin. The cycle is scored for soprano, violin, cello, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, and percussion.

 

2020 Libby Larsen Prize ($300),

sponsored by Libby Larsen, to a composer who is currently enrolled in school for a work in any medium.

Winner: Erin Busch “words, contained: set ii”

Erin Busch is a composer and cellist residing in Philadelphia, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D in composition at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Young Women Composers Camp, a two–week music composition festival, and has been commissioned and performed by the Albany (NY) Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra String Quartet, the TAK Ensemble, the Philadelphia Charter – A String Theory School, Matthew Levy of the PRISM Quartet, and Network for New Music. Recent projects include a string quartet commission from cellist Yumi Kendall of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a commission from the Amorsima Trio, a horn quartet for the 2020 Composers Conference as a Fromm Foundation Composer Fellow, and a multi–movement work for Sō Percussion. erinbusch.com // youngwomencomposers.org

This piece is the second set of string quartet miniatures that I have composed inspired by words from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. This project by John Koenig attempts to encapsulate familiar but yet unnamed experiences by creating new words to describe them. The four words I chose for this set of miniatures (full definitions shortened here for the purposes of brevity) are: (1) opia: the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye; (2) chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm; (3) morii: the desire to capture a fleeting experience; and (4) ambedo: a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details. Excerpts from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows are used with the permission of John Koenig.

 

2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize ($300),

sponsored by Claire Chase, for works incorporating innovative form or style, such as improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation, open instrumentation, or new performance practices.

Winner: Sofía Scheps “I come from afar”

Uruguayan composer Sofía Scheps graduated from the School of Music of the University of the Republic (Uruguay), where she is currently an assistant professor to the chairs of Composition and Orchestration. In 2017, she completed a masters degree in Sound Art, at the University of Barcelona. She works in the frontiers of experimental music – acoustic, electroacoustic, and mixed media – and sound art, and has premiered works in concerts and festivals in Latin America, North America and Europe. Also, she devotes part of her time to sound design, music composition and audio post production for audiovisual pieces and scenic arts.

I come from afar (Vengo de lejos) explores the possibility of constructing sound contexts by interweaving simple and limited materials, which develop slowly upon fragile structures associated with the memory of the performers. The Witness is the central point in my five-song cycle, Disappearances, on poems by my mother, Mary Ann Coleman. Theoutersongsareaboutfamily:parents/dyingintochildren. Thesecondandfourthsongsaboutmy grandmother’s madness and my mother’s own mental problems: An otherness the child listened to/and still listens to… The Witness, a love song from my mother to my father, serves as something of an eye of the hurricane, a moment of sweet calm in the center of the ominous tempest: I turn to you, clothed in my smooth skin,/and feel my breathing tighten;/witness your face that will last in a pattern/meshed in my brain when this furniture has fallen/towardruin. The cycle is scored for soprano, violin, cello, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, and percussion.

The piece brings up questions about how extra-musical cognitive and emotional aspects (the memory or forgetfulness of a close or remote relative) can qualitatively affect the resulting sound, if the do so at all. With a semi-open score, the piece proposes new dynamics and relationships between the performers, bringing memory and listening to the foreground as fundamental tools for sound construction.

Honorable Mention: Aine E Nakamura “Circle hasu”

Aine E Nakamura is a singer, composer and performing artist. In her composition, Life of A Flower—War and lullaby, she performed as a flower, which lived during a war time, from a sprout to the end of the blooming, through her vocal sounds, body movement, and imagery about the war, mother and her child. Her solo performances and installations include A Concert of Electronic Music in honor of Mario Davidovsk and Dias de Música Electroacústica. Premieres of her compositions include NYCEMF, October New Music Festival in Finland for and with MikroEnsemblen, and The Unseen World for and with the ICE at the Abrons Arts Center. Her other appearances include The Two directed by Dmitry Krymov. Nakamura launched Artist-in-Residence in Hospital and Recovery to define her own woman’s body. Winner of the APNM 2019 Electronic Music Competition. Awardee of the Leo Bronstein Homage Award. MA from New York University.

Circle hasu is a 26-minuite one-woman art of voice and body. I produce a sonic and visual space through my idiosyncratic performance grammar and a focus on orality—nuanced possibilities of my voice from my moving and improvised body, which supports a storyline about nature, animism, peace and my woman’s body. Hasu means lotus in Japanese. One of my languages, Japanese, and some of my ways of feeling about my ethnicity and cultural practices have been profoundly informed by the privilege conferred in Japan on elders and men. And yet, I want to explore how I can challenge these traditional power structures that preclude new ways of feeling. My transnational body seeks for the ‘borderless’ through my voice with and of my body.

 

2020 PatsyLu Prize ($500),

sponsored by Patsy Rogers and Lucille Field Goodman, for classical art nmusic in any form by black women and/or lesbians.

Winner: Melika M. Fitzhugh “Waiting for the Future”

A native of Stafford, Virginia, Melika M. Fitzhugh (A.B. Harvard – Radcliffe, M.M. Longy School of Music) studied conducting and composition with Thomas G. Everett, Beverly Taylor, James Yannatos, Julian Pellicano, Roger Marsh, Jeff Stadelman, and, most recently, John Howell Morrison and Osnat Netzer. Mel’s compositions have been commissioned by John Tyson, Catherine E. Reuben, John and Maria Capello, Laura and Geoffrey Schamu, and the Quilisma Consort, and have been performed in the US, South America, and Europe by those artists as well as the Radcliffe Choral Society, Berit Strong, Miyuki Tsurutani, Libor Dudas, Aldo Abreu, Quartet o Larianna and B3: Brouwer Trio. Mel, who has composed music for film and stage, was a member of Just In Time Composers and Pl ayers and is currently a member of world/early music ensemble Urban Myth, in addition to playing bass guitar with acoustic rock singer/songwriter Emmy Cerra, the ambient rock band Rose Cabal and the Balkan folk dance band Balkan Fields

We can feel any number of ways about the future: excited, hopeful, eager, resigned, fearful. The entire gamut of emotions can be in play.
The piece begins in a fairly stern, somewhat foreboding way before starting to lighten a bit with repeated ascending passages. This gives way to harmonics followed by a flurry of pizzicato, which in turn yields to dance-like sections that evince greater hope and intensity.
Can we win the struggle? Not entirely. But before closing the piece, the instruments find their way to speak with one voice. Discordant and harsh, clear and confident. The future never arrives, by definition, but we find some clarity of vision.

 

2020 Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble Prize ($300)

for Jazz compositions of any duration for small ensemble to big band (4-17 instruments)

Winner: Jhoe Garay “Laberinto de Raíces”

Jhoe Garay is a guitarist, composer and arranger from Mexico City based in New York since 2014. In May 2020, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in jazz studies at The City College of New York. Garay is a three-time winner of the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation scholarship and has been the recipient of the Austin and Florence Kaye Foundation Scholarship since 2017. She has been awarded the Hilda Holober Memorial Award and Repsol Emerging Artist Award. In addition, she was selected to participate in the International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music at The Banff Centre in 2017, she was a beneficiary of the Women in Jazz Organization Mentorship Program in 2019, a Latin Grammy Foundation Ambassador at the Latin Grammy Celebration in 2018 and 2019 and she is currently a grantee of the “Young Creators” program 2019-2020 by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico.

“Laberinto de Raíces”, which means “roots labyrinth” in Spanish, is a piece inspired in the mangrove forests of Mexico. Mangrove trees serve as shelter for many species. Above the water, its trunks, branches and leaves are home to a variety of birds, reptiles and insects. Below the water, its roots serve as shelter for fishes, turtles, manatees, among other species. This piece portrays the life that exists above and below the mangrove. “Laberinto de Raíces” is part of a larger project called “Nichanti Mexiko: Sound Ecosystems”. This project has the purpose of honoring natural diversity through music, creating awareness of the importance of natural areas and transmitting a message that encourages the conservation of natural resources.

 

2020 Alex Shapiro Prize ($500 and mentorship/consultation from Alex Shapiro),

sponsored by Alex Shapiro, for a work of any duration for large ensemble wind band requiring a conductor, with or without soloist, acoustic or electroacoustic, published or as yet unpublished.

Winner: Wenxin Li “Wave”

Wenxin Li is a native of Chongqing, China, and is currently pursuing her PhD degree in composition at the University of Iowa, studying with Jean-Francois Charles and Sivan Cohen Elias. Li’s music has been featured in a variety of festivals, including Aspen Music Festival and School, Composers Conference, TURN UP Multimedia Festival, National Student Electronic Music Event, Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, SCI Student National Conference, FSC New Music Festival, Midwest Composers Symposium and Caroga Lake Music Festival. Her music has also been performed by the JACK Quartet, Accroche Note, Western Percussion Ensemble and Sound Out Loud Ensemble. Li received her master’s degree in composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and bachelor’s degree from Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

This piece is inspired by the wave movement of water ripples. Water waves are a mixture of longitudinal and transverse waves. They have various shapes, directions and dimensions. In this piece, I try to present an auditory illustration of three wave movements and effects, from formation until it fades. In the first section, the wave forms, at a single point, and starts to disperse and expand to the surrounding area. In the second section, we can see the vertical movements the wave causes in the water, rising from a low point gradually to a high point and then cycling back. In the final section, after a long-time propagating, the energy of water ripples decreases and we can barely see the wave, but it is still going and moving towards a further place.

 

2020 Judith Lang Zaimont Prize ($400)

sponsored by Judith Lang Zaimont, for an extended instrumental composition—large solo or chamber works—by a composer at least 30 years old whose music has not yet been recorded or published.

Winner: Amy Brandon “threads”

Composer and guitarist Amy Brandon’s pieces have been described as ‘… mesmerizing’ (Musicworks Magazine) and “Otherworldly and meditative … a clashing of bleakness with beauty …” (Minor Seventh). Upcoming 2020-21 events include works for the Gaudeamus Festival, KIRKOS Ensemble (Ireland), Exponential Ensemble (NYC) and guitarist Libby Myers, as well as installations and performances at Winnipeg New Music Festival. the Canadian New Music Network, Women from Space and Sound Symposium. She has received Canadian and international composition awards and honourable mentions from the Leo Brouwer Guitar Composition Competition (Grand Prize 2019), Central European String Quartet (‘Most Innovative’ 2018), and ArtsNS (Emerging Artist Award 2019).
In addition to performance and composition, she writes and presents academic work concerning music cognition, virtual reality, improvisation and the guitar. Holding degrees in jazz guitar performance and composition, Amy is currently completing an interdisciplinary PhD in music cognition at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

From the most traditional music to the most extreme we almost always include gestures that begin at nothing, gain prominence, and return to nothing – a ‘swell’. threads explores this particular gesture in many different dimensions, not just in the dynamic profile of traditional melodic lines, but also through swells of microtonal pitch, of white noise, of timbre, of distortion, of pointillistic elements, of density and of nothing. threads was commissioned by the Chartreuse Trio, and premiered in May, 2019 at the Music in Bloom Festival. Creation of the work was generously supported by a grant from ArtsNS (Arts Nova Scotia).

 

2020 Choral/Vocal Ensemble Prize ($300),

compositions of any duration for choral or vocal ensemble.

Winner: Maja Linderoth “Sonata form denatured prose”

Maja Linderoth (b. 1989) is a Swedish composer based in Oslo, Norway. She started studying composition with Per Magnusson in 2011, after several years of classical piano studies and music theory studies at the municipal schools of music in Norberg/Fagersta, continued at Gotland School of Music Composition 2012-14 and received a Bachelor’s degree in Composition in 2018 at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo) and Universität der Künste (Berlin, Germany), where she studied with Eivind Buene, Maja Ratkje, Trond Reinholdtsen, Henrik Hellstenius, Kaija Saariaho and Daniel Ott. Linderoth also studied, with support from The Ulysses Network in 2018, at both “IRCAM ManiFeste” (Paris, France) and at “Composition, Alternative Performance and Performance Art” (Snape Maltings, UK). She has collaborated with several renowned ensembles including Faint Noise, the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, the Cikada ensemble and the Oslo Philharmonic. Her music has been performed in Europe and in the USA.

Sonata form denatured prose explores and reflects upon the constituents and the limitations of language –
while crushing the alphabet between the teeth: wrestling with its insufficiency and its perfection, the vague and the distinct. An uninhibited flux of vocals and consonants are forming charged terms. At the same time, the constituents are only something sounding, a timbre, nothing more than that; only figures and sounds. ”We begin again” – both a frustrated attempt to achieve a perfect expression, and also in itself a phrase with an inevitable, distinct request. The text is written by the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf (published in the collection of poems Sent på jorden, 1932), and translated from the Swedish by Robert Bly and Christina Paulston (in Late Arrival on Earth, 1967).

 

The adjudicators were Patricia Alessandrini, Charlie Beale, Akiko Hatakeyama, Yuan-Chen Li, Sarah MacDonald, Ali Ryerson, Dale Trumbore, and Jasna Velickovic. Michele Cheng served as chair of the competition.

 

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2019 – 38th IAWM Search for New Music

2019 Ruth Anderson Commission Prize ($1,000), sponsored by Ruth Anderson, for a new sound installation with electro-acoustic music:
Winner: Lauren Spavelko for her Electronic Music Installation “Black Box 2.0”

2018 Miriam Gideon Prize ($500) sponsored by Lucille Field Goodman, to a composer at least 50 years of age for a work for solo voice & 1-5 instruments:
Winner: Dana Maiben for “The Green House” for Contralto, wind-chimes, flute, bassoon, viola, piano

2019 Christine Clark/Theodore Front Prize ($500), sponsored by Christine Clark of Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., for a large chamber work (for 9+ instruments) and/or orchestral works; may include works featuring soloist (vocal or instrumental):
Winner: Yi-Ning Lo for her composition “Woven Veins”

2019 Miriam Gideon Prize ($500), sponsored by Lucille Field Goodman, to a composer at least 50 years of age for a work for solo voice & 1-5 instruments:
Winner: Ellen Ruth Harrison for her composition “All One Can Imagine”

2019 Libby Larsen Prize ($300), sponsored by Libby Larsen, to a composer who is currently enrolled in school for a work in any medium:
Winner: Cara Haxo for her composition “Three Erasures”

2019 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize ($300), sponsored by Claire Chase, for works incorporating innovative form or style, such as improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation, open instrumentation, or new performance practices:
Winner: Lisa Mezzacappa for her composition “Organelle”

2019 PatsyLu Prize ($500), sponsored by Patsy Rogers and Lucille Field Goodman, for classical art music in any form by black women and/or lesbians:
Winner: Chiayu Hsu for her composition “Taiwan Miniatures”

2019 Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble Prize ($300) for a Jazz compositions of any duration for small ensemble to big band (4-17 instruments):
Winner: Sam Spear for her composition “Survivor’s Suite”

2019 Alex Shapiro Prize ($500 and mentorship/consultation from Alex Shapiro), sponsored by Alex Shapiro, for a work of any duration for large ensemble wind band requiring a conductor, with or without soloist, acoustic or electroacoustic, published or as yet unpublished:
Winner: Ruby Fulton for her composition “1 in 10,000”

2019 Judith Lang Zaimont Prize ($400) sponsored by Judith Lang Zaimont, for an extended instrumental composition—large solo or chamber works—by a composer at least 30 years old whose music has not yet been recorded or published:
Winner: Seunghee Chrissy Lee for her composition “Bon II”

The adjudicators were Jennifer Bellor, Sara Graef, Migiwa Miyajima, Jane Rigler, Sakari Dixon Vanderveer and Nina Young. Ingrid Stölzel served as chair of the competition.

 

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2018 – 37th IAWM Search for New Music

2018 Christine Clark/Theodore Front Prize ($500) sponsored by Christine Clark of Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., to a composer who is at least 22 years old for a chamber or orchestral work:
Winner: Caroline Ahn for “Summer Sketches” for orchestra

2018 Miriam Gideon Prize ($500) sponsored by Lucille Field Goodman, to a composer at least 50 years of age for a work for solo voice & 1-5 instruments:
Winner: Dana Maiben for “The Green House” for Contralto, wind-chimes, flute, bassoon, viola, piano

2018 Libby Larsen Prize ($300) sponsored by Libby Larsen, to a composer who is currently enrolled in school for a work in any medium:
Winner: Lydia Dempsey for “Pas de Deux” for Oboe and Piano

2018 PDX Prize ($300) for a Jazz composition of any duration for small ensemble to big band (4-17 instruments):
Winner: Migiwa Miyajima for “Colorful” for Big Band

2018 PatsyLu Prize ($500) sponsored by Patsy Rogers and Lucille Field Goodman, for classical art music in any form by black women and/or lesbians.
Winner: Lauren McCall for “A Spark and a Glimmer” for Violin, Cello and Piano

2017 Alex Shapiro Prize ($500 and mentorship/consultation from Alex Shapiro) sponsored by Alex Shapiro, for a work of any duration for large ensemble wind band requiring a conductor, with or without soloist, acoustic or electroacoustic, published or as yet unpublished. Additional Honorary Mention Prize ($100):
Winner: Janice Macaulay for “Kaleidoscope” for Wind Symphony
Honorable mention: Celka Ojakangas for “Bonehead Fizzix” for Wind Ensemble

2018 Judith Lang Zaimont Prize ($400) sponsored by Judith Lang Zaimont, for an extended instrumental composition—large solo or chamber works—by a composer at least 30 years old whose music has not yet been recorded or published:
Winner: Yiheng Yvonne Wu for “Dreams of a Young Piano” for solo piano, two percussionists, and ensemble

The PDX Prize was judged by Alan Baylock and Ayn Inserto. The judges for the other prizes were Dr. Jennifer Jolley, Dr. Amelia Kaplan and Dr. Seunghee Chrissy Lee. Dr. Ingrid Stölzel served as chair of the competition.

 

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2017 – 36th IAWM Search for New Music

2017 Ruth Anderson Prize ($1000) for a commission for a new sound installation with electro-acoustic music:
Winner: Layale Chaker for “Borderland: Rites of Passage,” an audiovisual installation about identity in a world of displacement and exile Website

2017 Christine Clark/Theodore Front Prize ($500) sponsored by Christine Clark of Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., to a composer who is at least 22 years old for a chamber or orchestral work:
Winner: Hilary Purrington for “Likely Pictures in Haphazard Sky” for orchestra Website

2017 Miriam Gideon Prize ($500) to a composer at least 50 years of age for a work for solo voice & 1-5 instruments:
Winner: Veronika Krausas for “Hopscotch Tarot Song Cycle” for Mezzo Soprano & Violin Website

2017 Libby Larsen Prize ($300) to a composer who is currently enrolled in school for a work in any medium:
Winner: Jihyun Kim for “Extempore Anamnesis” for string quartet Website

2017 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize ($300) for electro-acoustic media or incorporating innovative form or style:
Winner: Kaley Lane Eaton for “lily [bloom in my darkness],” a electroacoustic opera for voice, live electronic processing, pulse sensors, two violas, saxophone doubling clarinet, electric harp, piano, and dance Website

2017 PatsyLu Prize ($500) for classical art music in any form by black women and/or lesbians:
Winner: Victoria Malawey for “Chansons Innocentes” for soprano, clarinet and piano Website

2017 Judith Lang Zaimont Prize ($400) for an extended instrumental composition—large solo or chamber works—by a composer at least 30 years old whose music has not yet been recorded or published:
Winner: Sonja Mutić for “world, words, air and a human being” for or trombone and ensemble Website

The judges were Dr. Mara Gibson, Dr. Tonia Ko and Dr. Tawnie Olson.  Dr. Ingrid Stölzel served as chair of the competition

 

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2016 – 35th IAWM Search for New Music

Ruth Anderson Prize for a commission for a new sound installation:
Winner: Rachel Devorah of  Greensboro, North Carolina USA for “revontulet”, a project to sonify aurora borealis data  Website

Christine Clark/Theodore Front Prize (minimum age 22) for a chamber or orchestral work:
Winner: Amanda Feery of Dublin, Ireland for “Pushing Air” for orchestra  Website

Miriam Gideon Prize (minimum age 50) for a work for solo voice and one to five instruments:
Winner: Liz Johnson of Upper Colwall, Worcs, Great Britain for “Sky-burial” for female voice and string quartet  Website

Libby Larsen Prize (currently enrolled in school) for a work in any medium:
Winner: Alison Yun-Fei Jiang of Elmhurst, New York USA for “Birds, Reincarnate” for string quartet  Website

Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize for electro-acoustic media:
Winner: Ying-Ting Lin of Cockeysville, Maryland USA and Taiwan for “When The Wind Rises” for alto flute and tape  Website
Honorable Mention: Kotoka Suzuki at Arizona State University for “In Praise of Shadows” for three paper players and electronics  Website

PatsyLu Prize for classical art music in any form by black women and/or lesbians:
Winner: Chia-Yu Hsu  of Eau Claire, Wisconsin USA for “Urban Sketches” for clarinet, cello, piano, electronics

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize (minimum age 30) for an extended instrumental composition:
Winner: Natalie Williams of Bloomington Indiana USA for “Saudade” for string octet  Website

Bonus Opportunity: Coro Delantal Performance Prize for a choral work,  experimental preferred:
Winner: Athena Corcoran-Tadd  of Ireland for “Lune et l’autre”, graphic score for chorus  Website

Judges: Katy Abbott Kvasnica and Susan Frykberg, both currently in Melbourne, Australia. Coordinator: Pamela J. Marshall

 

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2015 – 34th IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and orchestral works:
Winner: Mahdis Golzarkashani of Tehran, Iran for “Battle of Zahhak and Fereydoon” for orchestra.

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo voice and up to 5 instruments:
Winner: Tasoulla Christou of London, UK for “ Hymn to Aphrodite” for soprano, flute and piano. Website

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String or piano trio or quartet:
Winner: Carolyn O’Brien of Evanston, Illinois, USA for “Ritornello” for string quartet. Website

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any medium:
Winner: Jihyun Kim of Bloomington, Indiana, USA for “Gorilla” for soprano, baritone, and ensemble.

Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize – Electro-acoustic media or innovative form:
Winner: Amanda Stuart of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, UK for “Song of the Trees” for flute & clarinet with optional live transformations and fixed media. Website

PatsyLu Prize – Classical art music by black women and/or lesbians:
Winner: Yvonne Freckmann of Poteet, Texas, USA for “Train” for seven players and field recording. Website

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded, large solo or chamber:
Winner: Jennifer Bellor of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA for “Skylark Lullaby” for 13-part saxophone ensemble. Website

The Ruth Anderson Prize for a new sound installation was not awarded

Judges: Puishan Cheung and Alice Shields. Coordinator: Pamela J. Marshall

 

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2014 – 33rd IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and orchestral works:
Winner: Judith Sainte Croix of New York, New York USA for “Vision V” for orchestra and a trio of soloists: Native American flute, electric guitar, synthesizer Website Vision V video
Honorable mentions:
Santa Buss of Zvejniekciems, Latvia for “Liminarité” for chamber orchestra
Anne Goldberg of New York, New York USA for “ Machaerus” for soprano and orchestra Website

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo voice and up to 5 instruments:
Winner: Anne LeBaron of Valencia, California USA for “ Breathtails” for baritone voice, shakuhachi, string quartet Website
Honorable mentions:
Julie Bernstein & Steven Bernstein of West Hills, California USA for “Snapshots” for mezzo, oboe, cello Website
Sheree Clement of Jackson Heights, New York USA for “ Objects, Food, Room” for mezzo and clarinet Website

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String or piano trio or quartet:
Honorable Mention: Valerie Liu of Alameda, California USA for “Eastern Lines” for violin, cello, piano

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any medium:
Co-Winner: Nina C. Young of New York, New York USA for “Remnants” for orchestra Website
Co-Winner: Faye Chiao of Baltimore, Maryland USA for “moments colorés” for Pierrot ensemble Website
Honorable mentions:
Jing Zhou of Brooklyn, New York USA for “Four Gentlemen among Flowers” for clarinet and guzheng
Youngwoo Yoo of Champaign, Illinois USA for “Trauma” for chamber ensemble (fl,cl,bass trb,2perc,pno,vln,vla,vc)

Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize – Electro-acoustic media or innovative form:
Winner: Alexis Bacon of Plainfield, Indiana USA for “Yodeling Song” for alto flute, percussion, 2-channel fixed media  Website
Honorable mentions:
Amanda Stuart of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom for “Not Missing You” for one to four voices and fixed media Website
Kristina Wolfe of Providence, Rhode Island USA for “Agnus Dei” for live performers and interactive electronics

PatsyLu Prize – Classical art music by black women and/or lesbians:
Winner: Canary Burton of Wellfleet, Massachusetts USA for “Southern River” for viola and cello Website
Honorable mention: Gail Robertson of Orlando, Florida USA for “Tower Guard Tribute” for brass quintet  Website

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded, large solo or chamber:
Winner: Eva Kendrick of Providence, Rhode Island USA for “Juntos” for flute, bassoon, viola Website
Honorable mention: Janice Macaulay of Arnold, Maryland USA for “C.D.D. in Memoriam, Dedicated to Charlotte Dodds Dunham” for viola

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (age 21 and under) Any medium:
Winner: Katerina Gimon of Burlington, Ontario, Canada for “Elements” for chorus using extended techniques  Website
Honorable mentions:
Rebecca Larkin of Burlington, Vermont USA for “Portals” for soprano and piano
Lydia Dempsey of Fort Wayne, Indiana USA for “Passage” for chamber ensemble (fl,cl,asax,perc,pno,vln,vla,vc)

Ruth Anderson Prize – Commission for a new sound installation with electro-acoustic music.
Winner: Sky Macklay of New York, New York USA for “Harmonibots” for an interactive installation of microtonal harmonicas played by inflatable shapes Website
Honorable mention: Susan Frykberg of Melbourne, Australia for “Numinous Waters”, online soundart celebrating the sacred quality of water

Judges: Anne Guzzo and Emily Doolittle. Coordinator: Pamela J. Marshall

 

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2013 – 32nd IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and orchestral works:
Winner: Nicole Murphy of Wynnum, Australia for “Elsewhere” for orchestra. Website Listen

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo voice and up to 5 instruments:
Winner: Victoria Bond of New York City for “Two Loves – from Opera Clara” for voice, piano, and string trio. Website with audio

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any medium:
Winner: Shuying Li of Hartford, CT for Overture of the opera “The Siege” for orchestra. Website

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style:
Winner: Emma O’Halloran of Princeton, NJ for “Whisper City” for voice, laptop orchestra and symphony orchestra. Website Score Listen

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Winner: Nichola Scrutton of Glasgow, Scotland for “Post-Industrial Broadcast #1” for stereo playback Website Listen
Honorable mention: Kala Pierson of Glenside, PA for “Shahida” for stereo playback Website

PatsyLu Prize – Classical art music by black women and/or lesbians:
Winner: Chia-Yu Hsu of Taiwan for “Journey to the West” for string quartet Website Listen

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded, large solo or chamber:
Winner: Sang Mi Ahn of Bloomington, IN for “Dirge for the Earth Elements” for viola and percussion Website Listen

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (21 and under) Any medium:
Winner: Cara Haxo of Wooster, OH for “UNLESS” for chamber orchestra. Website Listen

Two of the regular categories were not awarded: Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize and Ruth Anderson Prize.

The judges were Laura Koplewitz and Ingrid Stolzel. Pamela J. Marshall served as coordinator of the competition.

 

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2012 – 31st IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and Orchestral works:
Winner: Emily Doolittle of Seattle, Washington for “A Short, Slow Life” for soprano and orchestra.

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo Voice and up to 5 Instruments:
Winner: Liselotte Westerterp of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for “Fishing Village” for soprano, alto flute and piano.

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String or Piano Trio or Quartet:
Winner: Katy Abbott of Australia for “Valentine” for string quartet.

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any Medium:
Winner: Tonia Ko of Bloomington, Indiana for “Siteless Structures” for solo piano.
Honorable Mentions:
Heather Stebbins of Boston, MA for “Shimmerings” for large chamber ensemble (flute, oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, percussion and strings).
Elizabeth Lim of New York City for “Lessons by Swansea”, suite for solo piano.

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:
Winner: Paula Matthusen of Middletown, Connecticut for “lathyrus”, structured improvisation for laptop ensemble.

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Winner: Haruka Hirayama of Lancaster, England for “Tints of July” for flute, guitar and live
electronics.

PatsyLu Prize – Women of color and/or lesbians:
Winner: Yoon-Ji Lee of Brooklyn, New York for “Lyric Montage” for clarinet, piano, viola and cello.
Honorable Mention: Chia-Yu Hsu of Durham, North Carolina for “Xuan Zang” for horn and
orchestra.

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded – Large Solo or Chamber:
Not awarded.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (women 21 and under) Any Medium:
Winner: Molly Joyce of New York City for “Royal Tide” for flute and percussion.

Ruth Anderson Prize – Sound installation with electro-acoustic medium:
Winner: Ida Helene Heidel of Norway for “Wall Talk”, a sound installation to be created from recordings of artists at work and musical fragments.

The judges were Kimcherie Lloyd, Director of Orchestral Studies at University of Louisville, and Roshanne Etezady, Professor of Composition at Arizona State University.

 

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2011– 30th IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and Orchestral works:
Winner: Julia Adolphe of Los Angeles, CA, “Between the Accidental” for string quartet
Honorable Mentions:
Andrea L. Reinkemeyer of Ann Arbor, MI, “Wild Silk” for baritone saxophone, percussion and piano
Sky Macklay of Memphis, TN, “Before There Was Backspace There Was No Going Back” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and amplified electric typewriter

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo Voice and up to 5 Instruments:
Winner: Anne Kilstofte of Arizona for “String Quartet No. 2, Songs of the Night Wind” for baritone voice and string quartet
Honorable Mentions:
Cynthia Folio of Pennsylvania for “Two Songs on Poems of Stephen Dunn” for soprano, flute and viola
Alice Shields of New York City for “Komachi at Sekidera” for mezzo soprano, alto flute and koto

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String or Piano Trio or Quartet:
Winner: Kathryn Mishell of Austin, TX for “Piano Quartet” for violin, viola, cello and piano
Honorable Mentions:
Diane Berry of Victoria, BC for “A Northern Winter’s Night” for violin, viola, cello and piano
Marilyn Devin of Los Angeles, CA for “Spring Quartet” for string quartet

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any Medium:
Winner: Jessica Rudman of Brooklyn, NY for “Vortices” for orchestra
Honorable Mentions:
Heather Stebbins of Boston, MA for “again and again, however we know this landscape” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion
Sang Mi Ahn of Bloomington, IN for “Hwae Sang (Remembrance)” for two violins

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:
Winner: Sabrina Peña Young of Murray, KY for “Creation” for chorus, percussion and multimedia
Honorable Mentions:
Hannah Gibbs of York, England for “Tale: A Radiophonic Soundscape”
Ximena Alarcon-Diaz of Leicester, England for “Sounding Underground”, an interactive virtual environment

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Winner: Nina C. Young of Montreal, Canada for “Kashchei for nine instruments and electronics”
Honorable Mentions:
Leah Reid of Mountain View, CA for “Sparrow (Spero)” flute, horn, percussion, violin, piano and live electronics
Shuai Yao of Muncie, IN for “White Night”, an electronic composition using sounds of a Chinese pipa

PatsyLu Prize – Women of color and/or lesbians
Winner: Jae Eun Jung of San Diego, CA for “Collage of Sketches” for chamber orchestra
Honorable Mentions:
Chia-Yu Hsu of Durham, NC, “Shan Ko” for orchestra
Ching-Yi Wang of Los Angeles, CA, “Beyond the Sound, There is…” for flute, viola and percussion

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded – Large Solo or Chamber:
Winner: Beryl Lee Heuermann of Missoula, MT for “Ridge of Blue Longing” for two pianos
Honorable Mentions:
Eva Kendrick of Providence, RI for “Sonata for flute, oboe, clarinet, viola”
Carolina Noguera-Palau of Coventry, England for “Nocturno for large ensemble”.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (women 21 and under) Any Medium:
Winner: Elizabeth Nonemaker of Los Angeles, CA, “Quite Natural Things” for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, cello and harp
Honorable Mentions:
Samantha Wolf of Springwood, Australia, “…and all that could have been” for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello
Molly Joyce of New York City for “5 songs” for soprano, clarinet and piano

Ruth Anderson Prize – Sound installation with electro-acoustic medium:
Winner: Karen Power of County Cork, Ireland for “Are you where you think you are?”, which will present soundscapes from specific locations around the world simultaneously, mixed with live sound.
Honorable Mention: Anne Goldberg of New York City for “Gray Areas”, which includes electro-acoustic spatialization and live mixing of the interactions of dancers, musicians and audience.

The judges were Susan Epstein Garcia, Professor of Music at the New World School for the Arts in Miami, Florida, and Timothy R. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Music at Crane School of Music, SUNY Postdam, New York.

 

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2010 – 29th IAWM Search for New Music

Ruth Anderson Prize – Sound installation with electro-acoustic medium:
Kala Pierson, New York, NY – “Singing Stones”
Honorable mention: Naomi Lucille Kagaya and Stephanie Cheng Smith – “Concert Earth”

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and Orchestral works:
Leanna Primiani, Santa Monica, CA – “Sirens” for orchestra
Honorable mentions:
Marion von Tilzer, Amsterdam, Netherlands – “Kisagotami Ouverture for Orchestra, Indian Violin & Tabla”
Laurie San Martin, Woodland, CA – “nights bright days” for chamber orchestra

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo Voice and up to 5 Instruments:
Marcela Pavia, Milan, Italy – “Per un addio” per voce recitante e pianoforte
Honorable mentions:
Cynthia Hilts, Brooklyn, NY – “Beauty & Discord” for voice, trumpet & cello
Beth Wiemann, Maynard, MA – “Paul Rice Songs” for soprano, flute & guitar

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String Trio or Piano Trio:
No prize awarded.

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any Medium:
Peiying Yuan, Singapore and Kansas City, MO- “Mutability” for large ensemble
Honorable mentions:
Ching-Mei Lin, Ann Arbor, MI – “Reflections of the Seasons” for orchestra
Nina Sofo, Melbourne, Australia – ” Isola” for guitar and flute

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded – Large Solo or Chamber:
Tsai-yun Huang, Taiwan and Illinois – “The moon lost in the frost sky” for solo flute and 2-channel CD
Honorable mentions:
Chung Eun Kim, Korea and Boston, MA – “Septet” for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, violoncello and piano
Eva Kendrick, Providence, RI – “Against the Grain” for wind ensemble and string trio

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (women 21 and under) Any Medium:
Amy Fleming, West Chester, PA – “Plegaria a Dios” for women’s chorus
Honorable mention: Molly Joyce, Pittsburgh, PA – “Astral Illusions” for orchestra

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Bik Kam Lee, Berkeley, CA – “Getting Hammered” for marimba and computer
Honorable mentions:
Nina C. Young, Montreal, Canada – ” Kolokol” for two pianos and electronics
Edith Alonso, Madrid, Spain – “La jarre mysterieuse”

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:
Karen Power, Limerick, Ireland – “the colourful digestive palette of slugs” for bss clarinet, grand piano, and tape
Honorable mentions:
Jessie Marino, Brooklyn, NY – ” rot blau”
Natalya Lainhart, Spokane, Washington – ” The Voyage” for string quintet, two percussionists, flute/alto flute, Bb clarinet and voice

PatsyLu Prize – Women of color and/or lesbians:
Aya Nishina, Brooklyn, NY – “WATER HOMAGE: I Kuramitsuha” for tape
Honorable mentions:
Linda Dusman, Baltimore, MD – “Diverging Flints” for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Kipyn Martin, Shepherdstown, WV – “Gloria” for chorus

Judges were Dr. Reginald Bain and Dr. Samuel Douglas, Professors of Composition at the University of South Carolina.

 

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2009 – 28th IAWM Search for New Music

Ruth Anderson Prize – Sound installation with electro-acoustic medium:
Margaret Schedel – “Madame Chinchilla: Twenty Love Songs and A Song of Despair”

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and Orchestral works:
Dafina Zequiri- “Atmospheres”

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo Voice and up to 5 Instruments:
Susanne Stelzenbach – “schokolade versüßt heute nicht”

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String Trio or Piano Trio:
Jennifer Fowler – “Towards Release”

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any Medium:
Gity H. Razaz – “In the Midst of Flux – A Tone Poem”

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded – Large Solo or Chamber:
Yi-Cheng Chiang – “Duo 2″

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (women 21 and under) Any Medium:
Nell Shaw Cohen – “Forming Desires”

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Lu Minjie – “Flowing Water and Distorsion”

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:
Janice Misurell-Mitchell – “Profaning the Sacred II”

PatsyLu Prize – Women of color and/or lesbians:
Tao Yu – “YU YU”

Judges were Siegrid Ernst, Christoph Keller, Roberto Reale, and Sonio Elena Neagoe.

 

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2008 – 27th IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and Orchestral works:
Sherry Woods – “Chambers” for String Quartet

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo Voice and up to 5 Instruments:
Eleanor Cory – “Three Songs” for Soprano and Piano

Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize – (minimum age 40) String or Piano Trio:
No winner in this category.

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any Medium:
Yoomi Paick – “Crossover” for Trio and Chamber Orchestra

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded – Large Solo or Chamber:
S. Beth May – “Witch Hunt” for String Quartet

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (women 21 and under) Any Medium:
No winner in this category

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Leah Reid – “Pressure” for Viola and Live Electronics

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:
Lavinia Kell Parker and Catherine Pickup – “Failure is Impossible, an Improvised Performance Piece”

PatsyLu Prize – (women of color and/or lesbians) Any Medium:
Su-Hyun Lee – “Fantasy” for 5 Instruments

Judges for the competition were Gernot Wolfgang, Erica Muhl, and Eric Schwartz.

 

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2007 – 26th IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize – (minimum age 22) Chamber and Orchestral works:
Tamar Muskal – “Yellow Wind” for Orchestra and Narrator

Miriam Gideon Prize – (minimum age 50) Solo Voice and up to 5 Instruments:
Terry Winter Owens – “The Eighth Elegy”

Libby Larsen Prize – (currently enrolled in school) Any Medium:
Carolyn O’Brien – “Widget” for viola, string bass and percussion

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize – (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded – Large Solo or Chamber:
Misook Kim – “Stop and Go”

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize – (women 21 and under) Any Medium:
Heather Stebbins – “Confessions, Reactions”

Pauline Oliveros Prize – Electro-acoustic media:
Ashley Fure – “Susurrus”

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:
Tara Rodgers – “Butterfly Effects”

PatsyLu Prize – (women of color and/or lesbians) Any Medium:
Yumiko Morita – “Echoes of a Wave”

Judges for the competition were Bill Alves, Carolyn Bremer, and Anne LeBaron.

 

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2006 – 25th IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee – “Dots, Lines, Convergences” Concerto for Chinese Zheng and Chamber Ensemble

Miriam Gideon Prize
Maria A. Niederberger – “Full Pockets” A Song Cycle for Soprano, Harp and Flute

Libby Larsen Prize
Pui-shan Cheung – “Dai Pai Dong”

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
Erin Gee – “Mouthpiece VII”

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Becky Lipsitz – “Many Waters”

Pauline Oliveros Prize
Jing Wang – “LU”

New Genre Prize
Joanne Cannon – “Children of Grainger”

PatsyLu Prize
Ingrid Stolzel – “Guilty Pleasures”

Judges for the competition were Joan Huang, Daniel Rothman, Ronit Kirchman, and Larry Karush.

 

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2005 – 24th IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize
Andrea Clearfield – “The Long Bright” Cantata for Soprano, Children’s Chorus, and Orchestra

Miriam Gideon Prize
1st Place, Sherry Woods – “Of Rivers and Trees” Song Cycle for Tenor, Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano
2nd Place, No award was granted in this category.

Libby Larsen Prize
Xinyan Li – “Pursuit” for Chinese Guanzi, Guquin, Violin, Cello, and 3 Percussionists

Pauline Oliveros Prize
No award was granted in this category.

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
Helena Michaelson – “Scintilla” for Large Ensemble

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
No award was granted in this category.

Judges for the competition were Vivian Adelberg Rudow and Sally Reid.

 

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2004 – 23rd IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize
Veronika Krausas – “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra”

Libby Larsen Prize
Hsiao-Lan Wang – “Etude for Orchestra”

Miriam Gideon Prize
First Place: Meira Warshauer – “Yishakeyni” for Soprano, Flute and Piano
Second Place: Li Yiding – “Burned Eden” for Soprano, Clarinet, Viola, and Piano
Honorable Mentions: Carol Worthey, Hillary Kruh, Carol Barnett

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
Sue Dellinger – “Sound Bytes” for Clarinet, Horn, Cello, and Piano

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Erin Huelskamp – “The Elements” for Flute, Violin and Cello

Pauline Oliveros Prize
not awarded

Judges for the competition were Deon Nielsen Price and Andrea Gullickson.

 

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2003 – 22nd IAWM Search for New Music

Theodore Front Prize
Sungi Hong – “The Light of the World” for Violin, Viola, Cello and Contrabass

Libby Larsen Prize
Jean Milew – “Sudden Light” for Mezzo Soprano, Flute, Alto Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano

Miriam Gideon Prize
First Place: Joelle Wallach – “A Revisitation of Myth” for Mezzo Soprano, Viola and Piano
Second Place: Jennifer Fowler – “Magnificat 11″ for Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Harp

Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
Dorothy Chang – “Wind/Unwind” for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano

len Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Po-Chun Wang – “Three Movements” for Solo Violin

Pauline Oliveros Prize
Hsiao-Lan Wang – “Green Potato II” for Computer-Generated Audio

Judges for the competition were Anna Rubin and Maria A. Niederberger.

 

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2002 – 21st IAWM Search for New Music

Student Composer Prize (for women currently enrolled in school)
First Prize: Helena Michelson – “In Search of Tranquility” for Chamber Orchestra
Second Prize: Sabang Cho – “Reflection” for Woodwind Quintet

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Tzu-Ling Sarana Chou – “String Quartet No. 2″

Theodore Front Prize
Karen P. Thomas – “When Night Came” for Clarinet and Piano

Miriam Gideon Prize
First Prize: Donna Kelly Eastman – “Old Cherokee Woman’s Song” for Soprano, Flute/Piccolo, Cello and Piano
Second Prize: Mary Jane Leach – “The Sacred Dance”

Judges for the competition were Janika Vandervelde and Carol Barnett.

 

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2001 – 20th IAWM Search for New Music

Student Composer Prize
First Prize: Orianna Webb – “Being and Becoming” for Orchestra
Second Prize: Moiya Callahan – “Four-Way Sextet” for Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Ruby Fulton – “In Coral” for Two Violins

Theodore Front Prize
Jennifer Higdon – “Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams” for Piano Quintet

Miriam Gideon Prize
First Prize (tie): Beverly McLarry – “Songs from the Timberlines” for Voice, Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano and Terry Winter Owens – “Messages for Raoul Wallenberg” for Soprano or Tenor, Flute, Cello, and Piano

Judges for the competition were HyeKung Lee and Stella Sung

 

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2000 – 19th IAWM Search for New Music

Student Composer Prize
1st Prize – Maja S. K. Ratkje ­ “Louange” for violin, cello and organ
2nd Prize – Heva Chan ­ “Restricted Freedom” for clarinet and piano

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Katherine Gilliam ­ “Silhouettes, Three Songs for Baritone and Piano”

Aaron Cohen Prize
Jeeyoung Kim ­ “Longing under the moon…” for violin and harp

Miriam Gideon Prize
1st Prize – Margaret Lucy Wilkins ­ “Struwwelpeter” for soprano, 3 clarinets, percussion and piano
2nd Prize – Ann Marie Callaway ­ “Besides This May” for soprano, flute and piano

 

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1999 – 18th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Stacy Garrop

Second Prize
Sarana Tzu-Ling Chou

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Erin Hollins

Miriam Gideon Prize
First Prize (tie)
Janice Hamer
Ruth Lomon

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1998 – 17th IAWM Search for New Music

Student Composer Prize (tie)
Erika Foin
Jennifer Furr

(No second prize awarded; winners will share prize money.)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Nancy Koe

Miriam Gideon Prize
1st – Elizabeth R. Austin
2nd – Janice Misurell-Mitchell

 

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1997 – 16th IAWM Search for New Music

Chamber Music Category
First Prize
Laurie San Martin

2nd Prize (tie)
Stacy Garrop
Rona Siddiqui

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
Mary Jane King

Nancy Van de Vate Prize for Orchestral Music
HyeKyung Lee

 

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1996 – 15th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Gabriela Lena Frank

Second Prize
HyeKyung Lee

Ellen Taafe Zwilich Prize
Heather Schmidt

Nancy Van de Vate Prize
Andrea Clearfield

 

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1995 – 14th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Alissa L. Roosa

Second Prize
Lisa Rainsong

Ellen Taafe Zwilich Prize
Heather Schmidt

Honorable Mentions
Renée Favand
Ellen Harrison
Sally Lamb
SoYeon Lee
Belinda L.
Terry Vosbein
Anna Weesner

 

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1994 – 13th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Stacy Garrop

Second Prize
Deborah J. Monroe

Ellen Taafe Zwilich Prize
Betsey Rosenblatt

 

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1993 – 12th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Joanne Metcalf

Second Prize
Jennifer Higdon

Ellen Taffe Zwilich Prize
Luna Woolf

Honorable Mentions
Ellen Ruth Harrison
A.E. Sierra
Stacy Garrop
Sheila Forrester
Stacey J. Willer
Renée Favand
Mei-Chun Chen

 

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1992 – 11th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Serra Hwang

Second Prize
Simona Simonini

Ellen Taffe Zwilich Prize
Hollie Thomas

Honorable Mentions
Renée Silas Waters

 

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1991 – 10th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Lori Dobbins

Second Prize (tie)
Simona Simonini
Carolyn Yarnell

Zwilich Prize
Penka Kuneva

Honorable Mentions
Renée Silas Waters

 

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1990 – 9th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Hillary Kruh

Second Prize (tie)
Karin Swanson
Lori Dobbbins

Honorable Mentions
Elizabeth Alexander
Jennifer Higdon

 

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1989 – 8th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Nack-Kum Paik

Second Prize (tie)
Mary Wright
Elizabeth Alexander

Honorable Mentions
Patricia Morehead
Elena Ruehr

 

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1988 – 7th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Ruth Meyer

Second Prize
Renée Silas Waters

Honorable Mentions
Brigitte Condoret
Christina Kuzmych

 

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1987 – 6th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Christina Kuzmych

Second Prize
Dorothea Ferrari-Stone

Honorable Mentions
Linda Bouchard
Violeta Dinescu

 

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1986 – 5th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize (tie)
Janice Misurell Mitchell
Violeta Dinescu

Honorable Mentions
Janice Macaulay
Jae Eun Park No
Elena Ruehr

 

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1985 – 4th IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Alice Ho

Second Prize
Ie Don Ho

Honorable Mentions
Julia Anderson
Susan Calkins
Janice Macaulay
Elizabeth Sheidel

 

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1984 – 3rd IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Catherine Schieve

Second Prize
J. Katherine Harvey

Third Prize
Karen Thomas

Honorable Mentions
Laura Goldfader
Elizabeth Bevan
Janet Ivcich
Merilin Michele Perry-Paris
Catherine Schieve
Karen Thomas

 

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1983 – 2nd IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Katherine Hafemeister

 

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1982 – 1st IAWM Search for New Music

First Prize
Sarah Aderholdt

Honorable Mentions
Debborah S. Van Ohlen
Linda Catlin Smith