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Two Yaddo Composers Win
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New York, NY (May 6, 2004) - Two Yaddo composers - Steven Burke and Harold Meltzer - are among the 27 winners of the 108th annual Rome Prize Competition, the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome announced at a New York City ceremony last week. Mr. Burke, a guest professor at Sarah Lawrence College, received the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellowship. He will use the residency to compose a musical drama dealing with sorcery (ESBAT) and to complete a work for the Seattle Symphony, a Fromm Foundation commission for Sequitur, and a concerto for horn and violin for the Camerata Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro. He has been a Yaddo guest artist four times, most recently last summer. Mr. Meltzer was awarded the Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellowship. While in Rome, he plans to compose four works - Fortunes, for the Delaware Symphony; Toccatas, for harpsichordist Jory Vinikour; a guitar work for Eliot Fisk; and a violin-piano duo for the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. He was in residence at Yaddo in 2002. Several Yaddo artists also served on the 2004-2005 Rome Prize juries. Poet John Hollander, playwright Romulus Linney, and fiction writer Edmund White were members of the literature jury; artist Martin Puryear was on the visual arts panel; and composers Derek Bermel, Tania León, Steven Stucky, and John H. Thow served on the musical composition jury. |
