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Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize ($500) - NEW
(for women - minimum age 40)
String Trio or Piano Trio (unperformed and unpublished)
The winning composition will be offered to the Hildegard Chamber Players for possible
performance and considered for publication by the Hildegard Publishing Company.
Given by Harvey Glickman in memory of his wife and supported by the Hildegard Institute
Theodore Front Prize
(for women - minimum age 22)
Chamber and orchestral works
Sponsored by Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
Miriam Gideon Prize
(for women - minimum age 50)
Works for solo voice and 1 to 5 instruments
Libby Larsen Prize
(for women currently enrolled in school)
Works for any medium
New Genre Prize
For innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation. If no score is used, a description of the work and its structure must accompany the audio CD or DVD.
Pauline Oliveros Prize
Works for electro-acoustic media
PatsyLu Prize
(for women of color and/or lesbians)
Works for any medium
Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
(for women in or out of school, age 30 and up, whose music has not yet been recorded or published)
Extended instrumental compositions: large solo or chamber works
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize
(for women 21 and under)
Works for any medium
Each prize category has its own monetary award.