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Recipients of the 2005 ASCAP Foundation
Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Honored

The recipients of the 2005 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards were honored during the 6 th Annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards, which took place at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday, May 26, 2005.

Established in 1979, the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer program grants cash prizes to young Concert Music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a juried national competition. These composers may be American citizens, permanent residents, or students possessing US Student Visas.

Morton Gould, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, served as President of ASCAP and The ASCAP Foundation from 1986 – 1994. Gould, an eminent and versatile American composer, was a child prodigy whose first composition was published by G. Schirmer when he was only six years of age. To honor Gould's lifelong commitment to encouraging young creators, the annual ASCAP Foundation program was dedicated to his memory, following his death in 1996.

The Award recipients share prizes of approximately $40,000, including the Leo Kaplan Award , honoring the distinguished jurist who served for twenty-eight years as ASCAP Special Distribution Advisor. The Leo Kaplan Award is funded by the Leo Kaplan family. The other cash awards are supported by The ASCAP Foundation Jack and Amy Norworth Fund, the Morton Gould Fund, and the John DeVries Fund. Sibelius the music notation software company, provides the Award recipients with Sibelius software or a software upgrade.

The 2005 Morton Gould Young Composer recipients are listed with their current residence, and places of origin: Athena Adamopoulos , Cambridge, MA (New York, NY); Judah Adashi of Baltimore, MD (Boston, MA); Timothy Andres of New Haven, CT (Palo Alto, CA); Kit Armstrong of London, England (Anaheim, CA); Mason Bates of Oakland, CA (Philadelphia, PA); Kyle Blaha of New York, NY (Belleville, IL); Sebastian Chang of Philadelphia, PA (Trabuco Canyon, CA); Anthony Cheung of New York, NY (San Francisco, CA); Lisa   R. Coons of Princeton, NJ (Macon, MO); Avner Dorman of New York, NY (Tel-Aviv, Israel); Ryan Gallagher of New York, NY (Wooster, OH); Stephen Gorbos of Ithaca, NY (Bethlehem, PA); David Heetderks of New Haven, CT (Ann Arbor, MI); Chia-Yu Hsu of Durham, NC (Panchiao, Taiwan); Daniel Kellogg of New Haven, CT (Norwalk, CT); Martin Kennedy of New York, NY (Wakefield, England); Ching- Mei Lin of Rochester, NY (Taichung, Taiwan); Marcus Maroney of Austin, TX (Wiesbaden, Germany); Andrew Norman of Pasadena, CA (Grand Rapids, MI); John Orfe of New Haven, CT (Chicago, IL); Huang Ruo of New York, NY (Hainan Island, China); Yevgeniy Sharlat of New Haven, CT (Moscow, Russia); Ryan Streber of Huntington, NY (Rochester, NY); Anne Strickland of McKinney, TX (Dallas, TX); Christopher Trapani of New Orleans, LA; Matthew Van Brink of New York, NY (East Northport, NY); Dan Visconti of Cleveland, OH (La Grange, IL); and Zhou Tian of Philadelphia, PA (Hangzhou, China).

Twelve additional composers received Honorable Mention.

The youngest ASCAP Foundation composer winners range in age from 9-18; Sixteen winners were selected and 13 received Honorable Mention.

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