The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995),^[1] who was an internationally acclaimed American composer and served as professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995.^[2] The first place prize consists of US$1,000 and a performance by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New Music Ensemble at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

[edit] Awards

Year	First Prize	Second Prize	Other Honors
1997	Jason Eckardt: Echoes' White Veil
1998	Karim Al-Zand: String Quartet
1999	Keith Moore: A Vagrant on Every Floor Craig Walsh: 0 to 33 in 1045.5
2000	Sophia Serghi: Sizzle
2001	Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Paisaje del Sonido II
2002	Yumiko Juvigny: Out of Dark Lair
2003	Edward Top: String Quartet
2004	Robert Yamasato: Scherzo
2005	Steven Rice: Murmurs from Limbo
2006	Douglas Boyce: 102nd & Amsterdam	Jorge García del Valle Méndez: Seok Yang Jong[3]	Calogero Panvino: Sonata 101 (Honorable Mention) Nicholas Paul Vines: Dolmen for a New Albion (Honorable Mention)
2007	Takeo Hoshiya: Instability Principle	So Jeong Ahn: Ssa-reng, ui...	Christopher Arrell: Argot (Honorable Mention)
2008	Abel Paúl: fragmentos del vértigo	Sungji Hong: Shades of Raindrops	Carl Bettendorf: Inner Life (Third Prize)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award page at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award page at Spineless Books
• Salvatore Martirano page

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