We are elated to announce the three winners of our 2024 Call for Scores. The three selections will be performed on our upcoming concerts on May 18 & 19: You Through Me, and all three of our the winners will be in attendance to hear their pieces performed. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
Xingzimin Pan — Path
Xingzimin Pan is an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen School of Music. His choral music has been performed in more than 20 countries, and received awards from the IFCM Composition Competition, the American Prize, RED NOTE Composition Competition, etc. Pan has collaborated with Sydney Chamber Choir, Princeton Singers, Ontario Youth Choir, among other international choirs. His publishers include Schott Music. Pan’s Dandelion is the most-performed choral composition in China since its publication in 2016, it has also been chosen by many international choirs as the first choral work with Mandarin Chinese text to be performed.
Alissa Voth — the Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words
Alissa Voth is a composer and paper artist whose work is interested in narrative and the unconscious mind. Her practice is guided by metaphor and personal memories, with an artistic focus on the voice and woven imagery. She is currently based in Chicago where she is pursuing a PhD in music composition at Northwestern University.
Max Vinetz — flash flood fiction
Max Vinetz is an American composer whose music draws inspiration from various intersections between improvisatory, popular, and classical forms and aesthetics. His recent and upcoming works address grief, the impact of media on rhetorical structures in music and our daily lives, and structures that circumvent linear narratives. Max is a two-time recipient of ASCAP’s Morton Gould Award, a Fromm Foundation Commission, the Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize, the Gardner Prize from the American Viola Society, and was the 2019-2020 Emerging Composer Fellow for Musiqa. A graduate of both Yale and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, Max is currently pursuing his PhD Composition at Princeton University as a Naumburg Doctoral Fellow.