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Congratulations to the 2011 winners of our High School Composition Contest!

See the 2011 Composition Contest Rules

1st prize: Nick Garcia
Island Trees High School, NY (Class of 2012)
Program Note: Similar to a 12-tone piece; Incorporates chromatic scale and follows specific rules.
LISTEN: ice “berg” mp3

2nd prize: Travis M. Petre
White Plains High School & Juilliard Pre-College, NY (Class of 2012)
Program Note: This is a brief piece for orchestra highlighting a heroic, fanfare-type main theme, with several supporting themes and motifs. The beginning section is fast-paced, the middle section is contrastingly less rhythmic, and the closing reprises the intensity of the first section. Unusually large orchestra; 2 piccolos 2 flutes 2 oboes 4 clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon, 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones tuba, percussion, strings.
LISTEN: Fanfare for Orchestra mp3

Honorable mention: Victoria Hope
Mt. Hope High School, RI (Class of 2011)
Program Note: I am at a concert. A mesh of music plays. This musical composition brings the listener through a journey of song: from the stimulating start, to the intermission in the middle of a concert, to the exciting end. A concert in Music, with a coffeehouse musical theme is embedded into this musical piece
LISTEN: Choir Concert mp3

Honorable mention: Emily Gaggiano
Nazareth Academy (Class of 2013)
Program Note: Not really a sonata is basically in sonata format, aside from the lack of key change to the dominant in the 2nd movement. It’s a duet, which can be played on 1 or 2 pianos. It’s in the key of C minor, in 6/8 time, and although it’s somewhat of a sonata it can also be considered a “variations” piece. In the first movement I tried to establish two different themes, which I repeated in sorts of variations in the 2nd and 3rd movements.
LISTEN: Not really a sonata mp3

View previous years’ winners