BGFest XVII Competitions COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Our illustrious committee has decided on three composition competition winners for Boston GuitarFest XVII.
Chosen among 48 entries from 19 countries, they are:
First prize winner:
Second prize winner:
Third prize winner:
Honorable mention:
Camel’s Dance — Pardy Minassian (Armenia/Syria)
Phryjig — Aaron Israel Levin (United States)
Traced Forms — Miles Friday (United States)
L’Entusiasmo — Stefano Vivaldini (Italy)
Congratulations!
Boston GuitarFest XVII announces that our composition competition is open to all composers world-wide who are 35 years old or younger. The winning compositions will be new solo works for classical guitar, with a duration of up to six minutes. Three works will be awarded (First Prize: $1000; Second Prize: $750; Third Prize: $500). The three prize-winning works will be performed at Boston GuitarFest XVII (June 22nd – 26th in Boston, MA) by noted professional guitarists. The competition will be judged by a panel of three jurors headed by Daniel S. Godfrey and including Anthony De Ritis and Meng Su.
Application fee is $25. After your registration, our team will reach out for a score, and—if available—a recording of the submitted work.
BGFest XVII Competitions COMPOSITION COMPETITION: JURY
Daniel Strong Godfrey
Composer
Daniel Strong Godfrey
Composer
Daniel Strong Godfrey has earned awards and commissions from the J.S.Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, among many others. His music has been performed by soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is co-author of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books. Godfrey's works are recorded on Albany, Bridge, CRI, GM, Innova, Klavier, Koch, and Mark compact discs. His music is available through publishers Carl Fischer and G.Schirmer.
Anthony De Ritis
Composer
Anthony De Ritis
Composer
Described as a “genuinely American composer” (Gramophone), “a visionary” (Audiophile Audition), and “bracingly imaginative” (The Boston Globe), Anthony Paul De Ritis has received performances nationally and internationally, including at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, Yale’s Woolsey Hall, Taipei’s Zhong Shan Hall, Beijing’s Yugong Yishan, Seoul’s KT Art Hall, the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 World Expo in Milan, and UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Meng Su
Classical Guitarist
Meng Su
Classical Guitarist
Su Meng (苏萌; born 1988) is a classical guitarist. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong. She started studying classical guitar in 1997 under the tuition of Chen Zhi of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2006 she was under full scholarship of Manuel Barrueco of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. She has also performed in a quartet formation with Wang Yameng, Li Jie, and Chen Shanshan (Four Angels). Currently she is concertizing as a soloist and also in duo with Wang Yameng, as the Beijing Guitar Duo.
Awards
1st Prize
$ 1000
professional performance at BGFest XVII
2nd Prize
$750
professional performance at BGFest XVII
3rd Prize
$500
professional performance at BGFest XVII