2014 Conservatory Student Awards
June 4, 2014
On May 8, 2014, after the orchestra readings of three student composers’ works, Bruce MacIntyre, Conservatory Director, announced the names of twenty-five students receiving the department’s annual awards.
Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
2014 AWARDS
Each recipient receives $100 from the Conservatory.
1. John Cage Award – outstanding work in experimental composition:
Jabbath Roa Arias
2. Conservatory Choral Award – excelled in the choral program:
Suzanne Eskelund & Jeffrey Perez
3. Conservatory of Music Opera-Theater Award – contributed significantly to the performances of the opera program:
Maayan Goldenfeld & Jorge Quezada
4. Conservatory of Music Orchestra Award – particularly distinguished performance in the ensemble:
Melissa Danas (French horn)
5. Conservatory Cerf Award in Music Education – a music education major who has demonstrated outstanding musicianship, scholarship, and accomplishment in music education, and outstanding promise for a career in music teaching:
Scott Anderson & Alkistis Karatzis
6. Conservatory of Music Performance Awards – individuals who have demonstrated outstanding work in the performance area:
Nia Austin (voice), Laura Vuksinich (percussion) & Georgia Lowe (harp)
7. conTempo Ensemble Performance Award – performed outstandingly for the Contemporary Music Ensemble in the past year:
Adam Von Housen (violin)
8. Miriam Gideon Award – excelled in study of composition; encouraging women to enter the field:
Mu-Tswen “Mavis” Pan
9. Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music (HISAM) Award – composition student showing imaginative cross-cultural exploration:
Yvonne Paredes
10. Morton Feldman Composition Award – for excellence in composition:
Maxwell Alper & Diana Hill
11. Noah Creshevsky Special Award in Music – special award in composition:
Justin Reardon
12. De Los Mederos Special Award in Music – for excellence in performing contemporary music:
Ansel Cohen (cello)
13. Lehman Engel Award – to the composition student who, in the past year, composed a particularly outstanding dramatic musical composition that was performed at Brooklyn College:
Gregory Houston & Abraham Morrison
14. Max Mathews Award for Excellence in Sonic Arts (since 2011) – a student who has demonstrated outstanding creativity in sonic arts in the past year:
Akio Mokuno
15. Maurice Lieberman Award – to a senior who is majoring in music history, music theory, music composition, or music education:
John Cleary
16. Robert Starer Performance Award – performer of a living composer’s work in public concert:
Larry Bustamante (saxophone)
17. Kadish Millet Composition Award – student composer who has evidenced a special talent in song-writing.
Dan Boehler
18. Olga Kozina Memorial Award – undergraduate music major (ideally a flute or woodwind player) who is an extremely devoted student and good citizen of the Conservatory, one who generously shares her/his impressive talents in many concerts by the Conservatory’s ensembles and chamber groups, who plays all kinds of music, and who is a good friend to her Conservatory peers on campus:
Emily Wong (violin; piano)
19. Sherman Van Solkema Music History Writing Prize – best undergraduate music-history paper from the previous academic year, from submissions nominated by the music-history faculty.
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20. Nancy Hager Graduate Music History Prize – to a master’s music student for an outstanding research paper for a music history (and/or analysis) course or seminar during the previous year.
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Congratulations to all our honorees!
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