Winners of the Search for New Music by Women Composers 2009
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Judith Lang Zaimont Prize - (minimum age 30) Unpublished and not recorded - Large Solo or Chamber: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"
Thank you to our distinguished panel of judges, Siegrid Ernst, Christoph Keller, Roberto Reale, and Sonio Elena Neagoe, for their outstanding service to women composers.
The Search for New Music Committee
Violeta Dinescu, Committee Chair 2009