Winners of the Search for New Music by Women Composers 2007
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Judith Lang Zaimont Prize - (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded - Large Solo or Chamber: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:
Yumiko Morita - "Echoes of a Wave"
Judges for the competition were Bill Alves, Carolyn Bremer, and Anne LeBaron
The Search for New Music Committee
Mary Lou Newmark, Committee Chair 2007