Works Performed at 2016 Gaudeamus Festival

Thank you again to the wonderful players of Oerknal and Quatuor Bozzini for their amazing work during the 2016 Gaudeamus Festival. Three of my works were performed, along with a bunch of other great tunes. It was an amazing experience and I thank everyone involved in the festival!

Winner of 2016 BMI Student Composer Award

The BMI Foundation (BMIF), in collaboration with Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), has announced nine young composers, ages 15 to 27, as the winners of the 64th annual BMI Student Composer Awards. The winning compositions include works for orchestra and wind ensemble as well as solo and chamber works plus pieces involving electronics. Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who serves as the permanent Chair of the Student Composer Awards, Mike O’Neill, BMI President and CEO and BMIF Honorary Chair, and Deirdre Chadwick, BMI’s Executive Director of Classical and the President of BMIF, announced the decisions of the jury and presented the awards at a private ceremony held on May 16, 2016, at the J. W. Marriott Essex House Hotel in New York City.

The 2016 award recipients and their award-winning compositions are:

• David Bird (b. 1990): Drop for string octet, strobe lights, electronic sounds

• Jack Hughes (b. 1992): Ripple for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

• Tonia Ko (b. 1988): Games of Belief for piano

• Tristan Xavier Köster (b. 1993): The Empty City Stratagem for male traditional Chinese folk singer (or tenor) and large orchestra

• Ryan Lindveit (b.1994): Spinning Yarns for wind ensemble

• Daniel James Miller (b. 1989):Contrails for flute and responsive electroacoustic environment

• Paul Mortilla (b. 1995):
  STUPOR for trumpet, bass clarinet, double bass, piano, and drumset

• Phil Taylor (b. 1989): Sparks for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

• Justin Zeitlinger (b. 2000): Miniatures for two violins

http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/64th-annual-bmi-student-composer-award-winners-announced/

Winner of Nouveau Classical Project's 2016 International Call for Scores and Commissioning Project

Featured in Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival

Video Premiere of "Mediums" will be featured in the Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival. Echofluxx is an annual festival of new media, art and music, presents a free spectrum of experimental art. Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival features works by Michael Crosswell, David Bird, William A. Brown, Joao Pedro Oliviera, Maxime Corbel-Perron, Maggi Payne, Mike Vernusky and Daniel Muldanado, Eric Souther, Panayiotis Kokoras, Christopher Coleman and Jamsen Law, Don Burton, and Paolo Germiniani. 

Featured on Yarn​/​Wire​/​Currents Vol. 3

Yarn/Wire/Currents is a yearly project that serves as an incubator for new experimental music. Their collaborations with composers explore the intersections of composition, technology, installation, live performance, music theater, and much more. 

Recorded and produced on November 6-8, 2015 at EMPAC in Troy, NY

2016 Gaudeamus Award Nominee

The jury, consisting of Seung-Won Oh (KOR), Pierre Jodłowski (FRA) and Jeths (NLD), examined all the entries for the Gaudeamus Award, a total of 175 scores from composers from 28 different countries. In consultation with representatives of ensembles Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Willem de Bordes), Silbersee (MaNOj Kamps) and Ensemble Modelo62 (Ezequiel Menalled) five young composers have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award in 2016.

* AMONG AM A by James O'Callaghan (1988, Canada)
* Drop by David Bird (1990, USA)
* From a Standing Forest of Mirrors by Anthony Vine (1988, USA)
* Madhye II by Shih-Wei Lo (1985, Taiwan)
* Organismo Aperto No.1 by Giulio Colangelo (1986, Italy)