Robby Simpson Birmingham Southern College	Andrew Ley Centenary College	Laura Daigle Centenary College

2004 Contest Winners Announced

The music collaborative of the Associated Colleges of the South is pleased to announce the 2004 winners of its student composition contest:

1st Place: Robby Simpson, Birmingham Southern College,
marche militaire américane for piano, clarinet, and snare drum
Student of Prof. Charles Mason and Prof. Dorothy Hindman

2nd Place: Andrew Ley, Centenary College,
Rhythmic Landscapes for piano
Student of Prof. Todd Gabriel

3rd Place: Laura Daigle, Centenary College,
Dances in a Song for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
Student of Prof. Todd Gabriel

The contest was begun in 2001 as part of an effort to support student composers in the 16 ACS member institutions. In order to apply students must be enrolled in music theory or composition classes. The contest is judged by a committee of nationally known composers from such institutions as The Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University. Winners of the contest have their work performed at the ACS New Music Festival held each July at the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Archived recordings of their performances will be available at www.colleges.org/~music after the July workshop.

Washington and Lee Prof. Terry Vosbein Receives Award

Prof. Terry Vosbein of the W&L music department has been awarded a summer residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. This program enables painters, sculptors, composers, poets, and writers from all over the world come to be inspired by Parisian life. This will be Vosbein's fourth residency there, the first two producing a violin concerto and a piano sonata. This summer Vosbein will be composing works for a compact disc to be recorded in the fall by Canadian violinist, Jasper Wood and pianist David Riley. He will also be composing jazz works for nonet to be programmed this fall on a concert featuring the music from Miles Davis's album, Birth of the Cool. In addition, on July 23 Vosbein's "Romance for Viola and Piano" and "God of All Generations" for viola and soprano will be performed in Graz, Austria.
 

World Music Lecture Series Exchange Begun at Trinity and Southwestern
For the last three years the Orpheus Alliance and member institutions have been sponsoring concert exchanges. Expanding upon this program, we have begun a series of lecture exchanges in the area of world music. On April 12 Prof. Kimberlyn Montford of Trinity University addressed Prof. Terry Klefstad's World Music class at Southwestern University speaking in the area of Music and Islam. On April 19 Prof. Klefstad visited Trinity to teach a class on different expressions of spirituality in Native American music. Profs. Montford and Klefstad are projecting a second phase of this project that includes the presentation of research papers at each other's institutions.