Ryan Chase: News

The Light Fantastic for full orchestra received one of two honorable mentions in the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra's first annual Composer of the Year competition. THe press release may be found here 

Gold Rush was awarded 3rd Prize in the 2011-2012 Boston Chamber Orchestra's Commission Competition. The award includes a cash prize. The full press release may be found here. 

Gold Rush was awarded the William Schuman Prize of the 2011 BMI Student Composer Awards. Read the full press release here.

My woodwind quintet, the filaments dance, was awarded first prize in the 2010 NACUSA Young Composers' Competition. It will be programmed on the next NACUSA National Concert.

Arcade Glitch was selected as one of three winning pieces in the Albany Symphony's 2011 Composer to Center Stage Competition.

The piece will be publicly read in May by David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Ariadne Greif and Contemporaneous (NY's new, hip, student-run new music ensemble) will premiere JABBERWOCKY! in April under the baton of David Bloom. It should be quirky, weird fun. See the calendar for details.

Also, the Musical Arts Youth Orchestra will perform Arcade Glitch in a live playoff on January 24 at Bloomington HS North to determine the winner of the 2010-2011 MAYO Composition Competition.

Check out www.ariadnegreif.com , www.contemporaneous.org , and www.mayomusic.org for more info about these fantastic musicians!

Happy Holidays

My Dean's Prize Commission for Indiana University's New Music Ensemble, DO IT LIVE!, will be premiered April 21, 2011 at 8pm in Auer Hall. The program also includes Brian Ciach's Georgina Joshi Commission and Kurt Rhode's Violin Concertino. Hope to see you there!

txts fm gyorgy was accepted by the Juventas Ensemble into their repertoire as part of their 2010-2011 Call For Scores. The piece will be performed by Juventas on an upcoming concert. Details to follow.

spaceful time for harp and piano was selected to be performed as part of the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music at the Bowdoin Music Festival on July 31.

For more information, visit http://www.summermusic.org/gamper_festival.php

lost coast (2010) for string quartet was awarded the 2010 Dean's Prize (Category B- Chamber/Ensemble) by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The prize includes a commission for the IU New Music Ensemble which will be premiered in their 2010/2011 season.

the filaments dance was selected to be performed at the 2010 Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez in Mexico City. The piece will be performed by the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet during the festival, which runs from May 23 to June 6.

"night, good and sweet night" was awarded First Prize for this year's Jean Schneider Goberman Competition.

The piece will receive its world premiere on April 13th at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at 2 pm by the Alaria Trio.

See www.carnegiehall.org for ticket information.

The Mannes Orchestra with guest conductor Michael Adelson will perform "The Door" for soprano and orchestra at Mannes College on May 1st.

The Chelsea Symphony will premiere "qualia" during their February concert series on the 16th and 17th. See www.chelseasymphony.org for more information.

Ryan Chase's "and they were with us too" for piano quintet was awarded 2nd Prize in the Jean Schneider Goberman Composition Competition. There will be an awards ceremony on December 3rd at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall for the winners

Ryan Chase has been named one of the recipients of the 2006 Mannes Composer-in-Residence Chamber Ensemble Commission. The resulting piece, "mused rhyme" for fl.(=a.fl)/cl.(=b.cl.)/hn/pno(=cel)
/perc/vln/cello will be premiered at the Mannes Concert Hall on Thursday; May 3, 2007 on a program to feature 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec.

The City Orchestra of New York under the direction of Geoff Robson will premiere Ryan Chase's "irreverent mirage". The program is also set to include Brahms' First Symphony. Please visit www.cityorchestra.com for more information. Hope to see you there.

A project to collaborate with percussionist Dan Galliher on "perspectra" for three percussionists and tape has been greenlighted by James Petercsak; head of the percussion faculty at the Crane School of Music. The piece is slated for a premiere by the Crane Percussion Ensemble in Fall 2006 at Potsdam. More details as events unfold.

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Ryan will return for a second summer at California Summer Music from July 8 - August 1. He has abdicated his position as Musical Director of Colonie Youth Theatre.

Ryan has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2006 National New York Art Ensemble Composers' Competition. "Augustinian Odyssey", the work submitted, was one of three pieces to make the final jury.

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