Salvatore Martirano Award

Salvatore Martirano Award

The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Mr. Martirano who was a faculty member at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995. Since its inception in 1996, the competition has attracted over 2,000 entries from over 30 countries. The first place prize consists of $1000.00 and a performance of the winning composition by the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Zack Browning who is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Illinois directs the competition.

Salvatore Giovanni Martirano, internationally acclaimed American composer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois was born on January 12th, 1927, in Yonkers, NY, a son of Alexander and Mary Mazzullo Martirano. He died at the age of 68 on Friday, November 17th, 1995.

Professor Martirano studied composition with Herbert Elwell at Oberlin College (1947-51), Bernard Rodgers at The Eastman School of Music (1952), and with Luigi Dallapiccola at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy (1952-4). From 1956 to 1959 he was in Rome as a Fellow of the American Academy, and in 1960 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. At this time he had works commissioned by the Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations. He was professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 till his retirement in 1995. During the Illinois years he also accepted residencies at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Sydney in 1979, IRCAM in Paris in 1982, and The California Institute of the Arts in 1993.

His compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra, and by radio orchestras and choral ensembles throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. His chamber and solo works have been performed world-wide.

Professor Martirano spent much of the 1970's developing the Sal Mar Construction, an electronic composing/performing system that Science Digest called "the world's first composing machine." He toured the world with his creation and with its successor, the yahaSalmaMac.

The University of Illinois School of Music presents

The 2012 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

Eligibility: Any composer, regardless of age or nationality

Awards: First Prize cash award of $1000 and second prize cash award of $500 plus performances by the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble in November of 2012 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Additional awards and performances may be given at the discretion of the judges.

Judges: A panel of judges consisting of international composers and University of Illinois music composition faculty members will select the winning compositions. The winning composers are expected to attend the award concert/reception and will be responsible for their transportation costs (the competition will provide a stipend for lodging). The winning composers will assume full responsibility for providing adequate performance materials upon request.

Guidelines:

1. Medium:	Full scores of any style or aesthetic direction for one to fifteen performers (including vocalists) may be submitted. Works for tape, electronics and/or mixed media with or without instruments/voices are eligible.
2. Duration:	20 minutes maximum
3. Limit:	One entry per composer
4. Entry fee:	A non-refundable entry fee of fifteen U.S. dollars ($15.00) must be included with each submission. Payment may be in US Dollars in the form of a check, international money order or credit card (preferable). All checks and money orders must be payable to the University of Illinois, and must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Please make sure to print the credit card authorization form (click here for form) and sign authorizing the use of the card for the amount specified, the type of card, card number, and expiration date (incomplete authorizations will be rejected).
5. Anonymous Submission:	The composer's name must not appear on the score itself or on any item (tape, CD, etc.) submitted in supplement to the application. A sealed envelope must accompany the score and contain the composer's name, address, telephone number/e-mail (if applicable) and a brief biographical sketch. If a recording of the work is available, it should accompany the score and be identified only by the title of the composition.
6. Return of Materials:	Scores will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope of the proper size is enclosed.
7. Other	Previous winners and faculty and currently-enrolled students at the University of Illinois are ineligible for the competition.

All submissions must be postmarked by March 12, 2012.

Send submissions to:
2012 Martirano Composition Award
Attn: Zack Browning, Director, Martirano Award
2136 Music Building
University of Illinois
1114 West Nevada
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
zbrownin@illinois.edu

http://camil.music.illinois.edu/CompTheory/Awards/Martirano.html (http://bit.ly/martiranoaward)
http://www.zackbrowning.com

2011 Awards

Louis Franz Aguirre, “Ochosi,” for string quartet (First Prize),
Marcin Stanczyk, “Nibiru” (Second Prize),
Julien-Robert Legault Salvail, “Chute libre” (Third Prize)

2011 Jury

Shinuh Lee (Seoul National University)
Benjamin Sung (Florida State University)
Erik Lund (University of Illinois)
Stephen Taylor (University of Illinois)
Sever Tipei (University of Illinois)

Previous Awards

2010 Josep Maria Guix, “Evening Wind,” four haikus for chamber ensemble (First Prize),
Alexandre Lunsqui, “Drawings for Ibere” (Second Prize),
Samuel Nichols, “Refuge” (Third Prize), Carlos Michans, "Trois Visions Tantriques"(Honorable Mention)

2009 Michael Klingbeil, “Tear of the Clouds” (First Prize),
Vladimir Rannev, “Variations on an Impulse” (Second Prize), Geoff Knorr, “Of Consonance and Contention” (Honorable Mention), Christopher Bailey, "Walking Down the Hillside at Cortona, and Seeing its Tower Rise Before Me"(Honorable Mention)

2008 Abel Paúl, “fragmentos del vértigo” (First Prize),
Sungji Hong, “Shades of Raindrops” (Second Prize), Carl Bettendorf, “Inner Life” (Third Prize)

2007 Takeo Hoshiya, “Instability Principle” (First Prize),
So Jeong Ahn, “Ssa-reng, ui...”(Second Prize), Christopher Arrell, “Argot” (Honorable Mention)

2006 Douglas Boyce, “102nd & Amsterdam” (First Prize),
Jorge Garcia del Valle Mendez, “seok yang jong” (Second Prize), Calogero Panvino, “Sonata 101” (Honorable mention), Nicholas Paul Vines, “Dolmen for a New Albion” (Honorable Mention)

2005 Steven Rice, “Murmurs from Limbo”
2004 Robert Yamasato, “Scherzo”
2003 Edward Top, “String Quartet”
2002 Yumiko Juvigny, “Out of Dark Lair”
2001 Orlando Jacinto Garcia, "Paisaje del Sonido II
2000 Sophia Serghi, "Sizzle"
1999 Craig T. Walsh, "0 to 33 in 1045.5" and Keith Moore, "A Vagrant on Every Floor"
1998 Karim Al-Zand, "String Quartet"
1997 Jason Eckardt, "Echoes' White Veil"

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