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Competition Winners for
2001
Maurice
Gardner, composer, was born in 1909 on the
Lower East Side. He received his musical training at The Juilliard School, where
he studied composition with Leopold Mannes. After a four-decade career in New
York City as a composer for films, radio and television, Mr. Gardner continued
to compose after moving to Florida in 1970. He was a three-time recipient of the
State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award, and received numerous
commissions from such performers and organizations as Jaime Laredo, Chamber
Music America, Meet the Composer, the Barlow Foundation, and the Pacifica
Quartet. Mr. Gardner was writing a large sacred cantata for baritone and
orchestra and a symphony for large orchestra at the time of his death in 2002 .
The Competition Prize from The American Society for Jewish Music was his last
major award.
Michael Karmon, composer, born in 1969,
spent his formative years in Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the
University of Minnesota . His compositions have been performed by such ensembles
as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and he has received major fellowships and
grants from the McKnight foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the
American Composers Forum, the University of Minnesota and the American Music
Center. His compositions sometimes touch on subjects related to Judaism: the
song cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly , which was performed at the Holocaust
Memorial Museum In Washington, D.C; and Voices of Heritage , for which he was
awarded an ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 1999. A former guitarist,
a number of Michaelšs chamber compositions are for the guitar: Four Tales: A
Chamber Concerto for Guitar, which won a first prize in the 19th Annual National
Association of Composers competition , and Frets vs. Fretless, which was
recently performed by the Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble. His music is
published by Theodore Presser company. Current projects include an orchestral
piece to be premiered d by the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra in April, 2002, and a
guitar duo for a consortium of ensembles.
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