Endowed by Suzanne Ettelson in memory of Lee Ettelson, the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer's Awards for New Chamber Works by American Composers is nationally recognized as a major opportunity for composers. Its purpose is to honor the best in current American music and to provide composers with a prominent forum for their work.
Previous winners of the Suzanne & Lee Ettelson Award include composers who have gone on to have distiguished careers in American music composition.
Two awards of $1,000 each will be given for new chamber works. Winning works will be performed during Composers, Inc.'s 2013-14 concert season in San Francisco. Award winners are expected to attend performances. Composers, Inc. will provide lodging. Works not awarded prizes will also be considered for programming.
All composers who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States are eligible to enter. Previous winners of this award are ineligible. Musical works requiring one to five performers are eligible, as are works employing electronic media (including tape alone). Composers may submit more than one work.
Anonymous submission: Remove or mask all indications of the composer's name on scores and recordings. Scores and recordings must be marked with a pseudonym and accompanied by the following, which will not be seen by the judges: a 3x5 card for each work, showing composer's name, pseudonym used, address, telephone, and email address if available. Send one score per work, accompanied by a cassette or CD recording, if available. MIDI realizations are also acceptable. Scores must be bound or stapled. Do not send parts. If you want your materials returned, enclose a self-addressed envelope bearing the proper postage. Composers, Inc. is not liable for accidental loss or damage to materials. A non-refundable entry fee of $25US for one work or $20 USD per work for two or more works is due on submission. Please enclose a check payable to Composers, Inc.
Anonymity of the entrants is observed throughout the judging process. The judges are the artistic directors of Composers, Inc.: Robert Greenberg, Frank La Rocca, Jeffrey Miller, Martin Rokeach, Allen Shearer, and Nick Vasallo.
Entries must be postmarked by December 1, 2012. Do not send by registered mail or other service that requires the addressee's signature. Winners will be announced in March, 2013. You may reach us by e-mail at:mail@composersinc.org if you have any questions.
Send entries to:
Composers, Inc. Lee Ettelson Composer's Award
PO Box 194552
San Francisco, CA 94119
Beginning in 2012 Composers, Inc. reserves the right to use the concert recordings of Award recipients for promotional use.
Composer David Biedenbender’s first musical collaborations were in rock and jazz bands as an electric bassist and in wind and jazz bands as a bass trombone and euphonium player. A musical omnivore and a passionate collaborator, David is inspired by a diverse array of interests and experiences, and he seeks to fuse the energy and clarity of those influences with his own musical language. His present creative interests include working with everyone from classically trained musicians to improvisers, acoustic chamber music to large ensembles, and interactive electronic interfaces to live brain data.
David has had the privilege of collaborating with many talented performers and ensembles, including Alarm Will Sound, the Stenhammar String Quartet (Sweden), the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, the Juventas New Music Ensemble, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Recent recognition for his work includes two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, regional winner of the SCI Student Composer Competition, and the Third Millenium Ensemble’s Composition Prize. His music has been heard in many diverse venues, including Symphony Space (New York City), the German Embassy (Washington, DC), the Antonín Dvořák Museum (Prague, CZ), the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI), and on WNYC’s (New York City Public Radio) Soundcheck with John Schaefer. David is currently working on the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition at the University of Michigan. He will also study this summer at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and he has studied South Indian Carnatic music.
Ryan Chase (b. 1987) has had his music performed in venues ranging from dive bars to Carnegie Hall by such ensembles as Alaria, CIRCE, Contemporaneous, the IU New Music Ensemble, the Chelsea Symphony, the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, and new music soprano Ariadne Greif.
Recognized by many of the country's prestigious musical institutions, his accolades include two consecutive BMI Student Composer Awards, receiving the William Schuman Prize for Most Outstanding Entry in 2011; the Audience Choice Award from the 2012 American Composers Orchestra Underwood Readings; 1st Prize in the NACUSA Competition; the Jean Schneider Goberman Award; and the Bohuslav Martinú Award.
He is currently pursuing a DM at Indiana University where he also teaches undergraduate courses in post-tonal ear training. He holds degrees from IU (MM 2010) and the Mannes College of Music (BM 2008). He currently studies with David Dzubay and has also studied primarily with Claude Baker, Keith Fitch, Don Freund, and Gabriela Ortíz. He studies computer music at IU with Jeffrey Hass, John Gibson, and Alicyn Warren. Ryan is a member of ASCAP.
For more information and music, visit www.ryanmchase.com
Composers, Inc. is supported in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber music, the Roger Shapiro Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, the BMI Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and through the generosity of individuals who give selflessly for the cause of new American music.
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