The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Salvatore Martirano (1927–1995),Musical America. East Windsor, New Jersey: Commonwealth Business Media, 2006 who was an internationally acclaimed American composer and served as professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995.Chase G: America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present. McGraw-Hill, page 620, 1966 The first place prize consists of US$1,000 and a performance by the Illinois Modern Ensemble at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. __TOC__ Awards Year First prize Second prize Other honors 1997 Jason Eckardt: Echoes' White Veil 1998 Karim Al-Zand: String Quartet 1999 Keith Moore: A Vagrant on Every FloorCraig Walsh: 0 to 33 in 1045.5 2000 Sophia Serghi: Sizzle 2001 Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Paisaje del Sonido II 2002 Yumiko Juvigny: Out of Dark Lair 2003 Edward Top: String Quartet 2004 Robert Yamasato: Scherzo 2005 Steven Rice: Murmurs from Limbo 2006 Douglas Boyce: 102nd & Amsterdam Jorge García del Valle Méndez: Seok Yang JongGasco JI: "Con la música a otra parte", La Rioja, November 16, 2006 Calogero Panvino: Sonata 101 (Honorable mention)Nicholas Paul Vines: Dolmen for a New Albion (Honorable mention) 2007 Takeo Hoshiya: Instability Principle So Jeong Ahn: Ssa-reng, ui... Christopher Arrell: Argot (Honorable mention) 2008 Abel Paúl: fragmentos del vértigo Sungji Hong: Shades of Raindrops Carl Bettendorf: Inner Life (Third prize) 2009 Michael Klingbeil: Tear of the Clouds Vladimir Rannev: Variations on an Impulse Christopher Bailey: Walking down the Hillside... (Honorable mention)Geoff Knorr: Of Consonance and Contention (Honorable mention) 2011 Louis Aguirre: Ochosi for string quartet Marcin Stanczyk: Nibiru Julien-Robert Legault Salvail: Chute libre (Third prize) 2012 Michael Seltenreich: Sparks and Flares Stephen Yip: Dark Side of the Shadow 2013 Luís Antunes Pena: Im Rauschen Rot for double bass,percussion quartet, and electronics Daniel Moreira: The King from Papatua Alexander Khubeev: Sounds from the Dark Time (Third prize) 2014 Nina C. Young: Traced Upon Cinders for 13 musicians Aurélio Edler-Copes: Encore Seule David Coll: Act (Third prize) 2015 Matthew Ricketts: Flat Line for 15 players Anthony Vine: For Agnes Martin 2016 James O'Callaghan: Among Am A for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics Nicola Straffelini: Labyrinth Song for piccolo, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano 2017 Oren Boneh: Winter Walks That Gravel My Voice for viola and chamber ensemble Igor Santos: Two Two for chamber ensemble David Bird: Drop for string octet and strobe lights with electronics 2018 David Clay Mettens: Without Air for flute, viola, cello, harp, and percussion Charles Peck: Sunburst for piano quartet 2019 Joshua Hey: I am in here for violin and cello Katherine Balch: Prelude for piano and cello Selim Goncu: Widerklang for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello 2020 Zhuosheng Jin: A Piece of Watermelon for soprano and six instrumentalists Stylianos Dimou: les instances for large ensemble and diffused, synthesized soundso 2021 Luis Quintana: Smudges over dripping ink for piano and ensemble Utku Asuroglu: In Between for chamber ensemble and electronics Paul Novak: as the light begins to drift for sinfonietta (Honorable Mention) 2022 Timothy Roy: dans les dents de la guivre for harp, multichannel electronics, and lighting Emre Sihan Kaleli: Adjacent rooms, a part of a labyrinth for chamber ensemble Tomasz Skweres: Event Horizon for chamber ensemble 2023 Anna-Louise Walton: Basket of Figs for soprano, flute, and clarinet Louis J. Goldford: Mauvaise Foi for soprano, chamber ensemble, and electronics Lina Tonia: Magna Carta Libertatum for chamber ensemble 2024 Omer Barash: Te’ena Chris Fisher-Lochhead: stutter-step the concept Daniel Fawcett: Echoes of Wild Petals
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External links Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award page at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Awardees at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign