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The National Young Composers Challenge (NYCC) is a non-profit charitable organization whose goal is to promote the creation of new orchestral music and the next generation of American composers. The National Young Composers Challenge 501(c)(3) was incorporated in 2008 by Steve Goldman and funded by the Goldman Charitable Trust.
Resulting from a suggestion by Norman Dello Joio, the Young Composers Project (YCP) was founded in 1959. Funded by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Music Council, the project placed young composers (age 35 and under) in public school systems as composers-in-residence. From 1959 to 1962, 31 composers participated in the project.
BBC Young Musician of the Year (UK) Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (Indiana, US) Gregynog Young Musicians Competition (Wales, UK) [82] International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig, Germany) International Russian Rotary Children Music Competition (Russia) [83] International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians ...
Like Andriessen, Crumb, too, had an imperturbable sway on young composers. Gerpe’s magical "Makrokosmos" was a repeat of the Crumb tribute he organized in March at Monk Space. In that, a dozen ...
[1] [2] [3] This is a list of young children (under around age 10) who displayed a talent in music deemed to make them competitive with skilled adult musicians. The list is sorted by instrument. The list is sorted by instrument.
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death. The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001. The 21st century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the ...
Degenerate Art Ensemble grew out of an earlier group led by Kohl and Nishimura called The Young Composers Collective founded in Seattle in 1994, a morphing 17-20 member big band / orchestra that hosted performance artists, modern classical / jazz / rock composers and world-music practitioners performing wildly mixed programs in rock clubs ...