COMPOSER SEMI-FINALISTS: chorus

The American Prize is pleased to announce an extensive group of 2014 SEMI-FINALIST composers in the choral music division. Congratulations! To know the exact date when finalists will be announced in June, please like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter #AmericanPrize, where that information will be published first.

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The American Prize in Composition—Choral (professional division)

David Avshalomov  Santa Monica CA
   Bend the Knee of My Heart
Mark Dal Porto  Portales NM
   Spring, the Sweet Spring
R. Michael Daugherty  Jacksonville NC
   selected works
David Horace Davies  Houghton NY
   Cantate Domino
David DeLyser  Portland OR
   Trees
Dianna Robin Dennis  Athenry Co, Galway Ireland
   Center of the Atom
Kevin Desire  Miami Gardens FL
   selected works
Dominick DiOrio  Bloomington IN
   selected works
 Christina Brice Dolanc  Davis CA
   Rocking Softly
Daniel Elder  Nashville TN
   Three Themes of Life and Love
Brian T. Field  Fairfield CT
   Remember
Peter M. Frost  Hawthorne NY
   The Blue Top
William P. Gorton  Decatur IL
   Prayer to the Mother World, The Lord is My Shepherd, 
   The Night Whispers Fair
Jocelyn Hagan  Minneapolis MN
   Sanctus
Samuel R. Hazo  McMurray PA
   GLORIFICARE: Newtown Requiem
Zebulon M. Highben  New Concord OH
   selected works
Elise Letourneau  Orleans ON
   selected works
Darin Lewis  Stamford CT
   Veritas!
David Lipten  Tallahassee FL
   How To
Anthony Maglione  Liberty MO
   selected works
Marcia Marchesi  Littleton CO
   There is No Rose, Gabriel's Song
Timothy S. McDonnell  Immokalee FL
   Sub tuum praesidium, Gaudete
Carol A. Nicholeris  Rockland MA
   The Mass "Ancestral Remembrances"
Rebecca Oswald  Eugene OR
   Pied Beauty, Reciprocity, Wise Words of Love
Sheena Phillips  Los Gatos CA
   selected works
Denice Rippentrop  Scottsdale AZ
   selected works
Wayland Rogers  Chicago IL
   selected works
Timothy C. Takach  Minneapolis MN
   selected works
Robert Wendel  New York NY
   This is Chanukah

The American Prize in Composition—Choral (student division)

Saunder Choi  Cambridge MA
   selected works
Edward F. Davis  Chicago IL
   My Sun and Song and Spring, Requiem AEternam, 
   Silver Bells
Joy DeCoursey-Porter  Bellevue WA
   Mondnacht
Dayton L. Kinney  Plympton MA
   Life
Matthew LaBerge  South Portland ME
   Guiding Light
Brandon Maahs  Sanger TX
   Arctic Flower
Brian Mark  Holbrook NY
   Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum
Zachary J. Moore  Wind Lake WI
   I Will Lift My Eyes
Brandon Stewart  Ridgefield WA
   I Shall Not Care, Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Stephen Sullivan  Greenwood IN
   Black Bird