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Young Musician's Award
for Choral Composition
Click here for details of the 2010 competition.
The 2009 Winner
Steve Danyew of Rochester, NY, is the winner of the DVC 2009 Choral Composition Competition for Young Composers.
Danyew has been awarded 1st prize and has received a $500 cash award for his choral composition, On Green Mountains. This composition will be performed by DVC during our Fall concert on November 21 and 22. The committee remarked that Danyew’s composition, On Green Mountains, was “well crafted and immediately appealing for the choir to perform and an audience to hear.” Other reviewers have hailed Danyew’s music as “startlingly beautiful,” and rich with feeling.”
Steve Danyew received his B.M. in Music Theory and Composition with honors from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in May 2006, where he served as President of the University of Miami Society of Composers for two years. He was named the 2006 Outstanding Graduate for both the Department of Music Theory and Composition and the Beta Beta chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society at the Frost School of Music. In the summer of 2008, Danyew attended the Yale Summer Music Festival as one of five composer fellows chosen nationally. Danyew has been named as a finalist in the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards three times (2006, 2007, 2008). His choral work Goodnight, Goodnight was awarded 1st prize in the prestigious 2008 Ithaca Choral Composition Competition. An accomplished saxophonist, Danyew has garnered numerous national awards, honors and prizes spanning several genres. He currently serves in a teaching/mentorship program for underprivileged youth through the Eastman Community Music School in Rochester, NY and is studying towards a M.M. in composition at the Eastman School of Music.
2010 Young Musician's Award
FOR CHORAL COMPOSITION
$500 AWARD
- The competition is open to candidates who are 30 or under as of March 1, 2010.
- There is no geographic requirement, composers from anywhere may apply.
- The winner will be publicly announced at DVC's spring concert on May 16, 2010
- The winning selection will be performed on DVC's 2010-2011 concert season.
- Click here for detailed information about specific requirements, application, eligibility and timeline.
- Click here for an application. (You will need to print this out and mail it in.)
- For details, click here to contact the Chair of the Scholarship Committee, Elizabeth Rhoads or call her at 610-388-2626.
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