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Masterprize
Tel: +44 (0)20 7233 0111 Masterprize site designed by Room101 Ltd |
Nationality
Chinese Born 28 August 1951 Finalist work Wu Xing Publisher Gérard Billaudot
Éditeur
QIGANG CHEN
Born in Shanghai, Chen began studying music at 6 years old. He had a traumatic youth during the Cultural Revolution. Despite his father being imprisoned in a labour camp and himself suffering three years in detention, he doggedly pursued his childhood love of music and managed to build a new life after the Revolution. After five years of studies in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with LUO Zhongrong, he went to Paris, where Olivier Messiaen exceptionally received him as his last and only student for four years.
Chen has received many awards including the Prize of the 34th Summer in Darmstadt, Germany, Prize at the International Contest of Symphony Composition of Cita di Trieste, Italy, Nadia Boulanger Award, Villa Medicis Hors les Murs Award (famous Rome Prize in the past). He sat on many juries for the international composition contest, especially the 9th International Composition Contest of Besancon as the president of the jury and most recently for the International Messiaen Music Competition. He is now 'honored professor' at two of the most important music colleges in China such as the China Conservatory in Beijing and the Conservatory of Shanghai.
On 6 February 2002, the Orchestre National de France premièred his work Iris dévoilée (for large orchestra, three female voices and three traditional Chinese instruments) which was commissioned by the Koussevitsky Foundation together with Radio France. Another work, Un temps disparu (for erhu and orchestra), commissioned by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, was premièred in Montreal in April 2002, with Charles Dutoit conducting. Qigang Chen is currently working on a piece for 'Les Percussions de Strasbourg' commissioned by the French Ministry for Culture. His recent Ballet Raise the Red Lantern, premiered in Beijing by China National Ballet, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at Sadler's Wells in London in 2003.
In 2003 Virgin Classics released a CD of three of Chen's works, including Wu Xing.
ANTHONY IANNACCONE |
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Nationality American Born 14 October 1943 Finalist work Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound Publisher Theodore Presser
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Iannaccone studied composition at the Manhattan School of Music with Ludmila Ulehla, Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, and then with Samuel Adler at the Eastman School. He also studied privately with Copland between 1959 and 1964. Iannaccone taught briefly at the Manhattan School before being appointed professor of composition at the Eastern Michigan University in 1971.
Iannaccone's catalogue of approximately 50 published works includes three symphonies, as well as smaller works for orchestra, several large works for chorus and orchestra, numerous chamber pieces, a variety of works for wind ensemble, and several extended a cappella choral compositions.
His music is performed by major orchestras and professional chamber ensembles in the United States and abroad and he is an active conductor of both new music and standard orchestral repertoire. In addition to conducting numerous regional and metropolitan orchestras in the United States, he has conducted several European orchestras including the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, the Bavarian Festival Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic, and the Slovak Radio Orchestra.
He has been awarded an Aaron Copland Fund Grant to record a new CD of his orchestra works on Albany Records as conductor of the Janacek Philharmonic, and his String Quartet No 3, recently awarded first prize in the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Chamber Music Competition, was released on an Albany Records CD of his music for strings. His Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound was recently performed by the Bavarian Festival Orchestra and the Janacek Philharmonic (conducted by Iannaccone himself), and by the Eastern Michigan University Orchestra with Kevin Miller conducting. The new Albany Records CD which features this orchestral work is titled Waiting for Sunrise. A review in the July/August issue of 'American Record Guide' stated that "...if you love powerful, original orchestral music,this disc [Albany Records CD,Troy 486] is worth buying for Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound and Night Rivers ...".
JoAnn Falletta conducted Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound with the Virginia Symphony on the 7 February 2004.
PIERRE JALBERT - WINNER |
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Nationality American Born 15 November 1967 Finalist work In Aeternam Publisher Theodore Presser
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Pierre Jalbert received his musical training at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards for his compositions, including a Guggenheim fellowship, two BMI Foundation Composition Awards, three ASCAP Foundation Awards, a Society of Composer's Award, the Bearns Prize in Composition, and a Tanglewood Music Center fellowship. Jalbert recently received the Rome Prize for 2000-2001, and served on its judging panel this year.
Jalbert's compositions have been performed throughout the United States, including two orchestral works premiered at Carnegie Hall: The Joyful Mysteries (1992) and Shock-Waves (1997). In March 2002 his piano trio was performed at a chamber music recital in New York at Merkin Concert Hall, and his chamber ensemble work, Transcendental Windows, has been performed at Rice University and at the University of Texas at Austin. He has recently completed a work for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble which was premièred in the summer of 2002, and which will shortly be performed in Austin and Houston, Texas. In Aeternam is scheduled to be performed by the Santa Rosa Symphony, and other works of his will be played by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Akron Symphony in Ohio.
He has also received commissions from violinist Midori, the American Composers' Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Vermont Symphony, the Fischer Duo, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Zeitgeist, the New York Youth Symphony and the Maia String Quartet, among others. Current projects include a Horn Concerto for William ver Meulen of the Houston Symphony and a work for the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music in New York.
He has recently finished his three-year residency with the California Symphony as their Young American Composer-in-Residence. In May 2000 the California Symphony premiered his In Aeternam for orchestra, and in May 2001 it premiered his Symphonia Sacra, a three movement symphonic work which he composed this past year while at the American Academy in Rome. September 2002 marked his first concert with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as their new Composer-in-Residence; they performed his Les Espaces Infinis, a work for chamber orchestra.
He currently teaches at Rice University in Houston where he is Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the Shepherd School of Music. Jalbert's music is published by Theodore Presser Company.
For full details on Pierre Jalbert's news and forthcoming performances please click here:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jalbert/
ALASTAIR KING |
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Nationality British Born 22 December 1967 Finalist work Hit the Ground (Running, Running, Running)
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King studied Music at Bath, Birmingham and Kansas and has won many awards and prizes. He is currently Composer-in-Association with Bath Philharmonia and Composer-in-Residence with the Amadeus Orchestra.
King's music has been performed throughout Europe and the USA and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has supplied additional music for Dreamworks' Shrek, BBC's Happy Birthday Shakespeare, ABC's Princess of Thieves and Aardman Productions' Chicken Run. He also worked on the new Jim Henson Production Jack and the Beanstalk.
Recent concert work includes a commission from the Welsh National Opera Flute, Viola and Harp Ensemble and a new Music-Theatre piece, Dance Marathon ($1000 stake), which was commissioned by the Amadeus Ensemble for their tour of India during February 2001.
Since the final of Masterprize 2001, Hit the Ground has been performed by Bromley Youth Orchestra, Suffolk Youth Orchestra and the Amadeus Orchestra.
The Bath International Guitar Festival commissioned THREE DANCE MINIATURES in 2002 which were performed and recorded on CD by Tom Kerstens. In 2003 Alastair completed THE GAMES WE PLAY - a piece for marimba and piano for Evelyn Glennie. Two new concert commissions in 2004 are HINTS OF IMMORTALITY, a work for chorus and ensemble for Calne Festival's 30th Anniversary and a Concerto for Youth Orchestra jointly commissioned by five English youth orchestras.
His concert music is published exclusively by Chester Music.
CARTER PANN |
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Nationality American Born 21 February 1972 Finalist work Slalom Publisher Theodore Presser
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Pann began studying piano at an early age with his grandmother and at fifteen he began lessons with Emilio Del Rosario at the North Shore School of Music in Winnetka, Illinois. These lessons gave Pann an appreciation for performance technique and advanced musical thought and led him to study composition with Howard Sandorff from the University of Chicago, Hyde Park. In 1994 Pann received his BA in Composition from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson and David Liptak. Pann then went on to take an MA in Composition at the University of Michigan, studying with William Bolcom, William Albright and Bright Sheng.
Pann has received an award for his Piano Concerto (the K. Serocki Competition, premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and he won first prize in the Zoltan Kodaly and Francois d'Albert Concours Internationales de Composition. Pann has also received a commission for clarinettist Richard Stoltzman (premiered in Carnegie Hall), a Charles Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and five ASCAP composer awards, including the most recent Leo Kaplan Award.
In 1997 the Czech State Philharmonic of Brno recorded four of his orchestral works under Jose Serebrier, the recording of which was released on Naxos' American Classics Series in February 2000. The Piano Concerto was submitted for a Grammy nomination in the "Best Classical Composition of the Year" category for 2001. Love Letters (String Quartet No. 1) was commissioned for and recently premiered by the Ying Quartet. His Clarinet Concerto will be recorded in 2002 by the Seattle Symphony with Mr Stoltzman and Gerard Schwarz.
His most recent works include Triple Trombone Concerto, which is to be performed and recorded by Three's Company Trombone Trio in Autumn 2002, and Anthems in Waves, composed for the Haddonfield Symphony as a tribute to the USS New Jersey Battleship.
Since the Final of Masterprize 2001, Slalom has been performed by the Syracuse Symphony, Amadeus Orchestra, and the Swedish Radio Symphony, and has been broadcast several times by NPR in America.