First Prize: David Rakowski, Locking Horns for Horn and Chamber Orchestra
Editions Peters, #67995
CD: Daniel Grabois, horn, Sequitur, Paul Hostetter, conductor, Troy 607 Albany Records
Second Prize: Paul Stanhope, Songs for the Shadowland for Soprano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano
Available from the Australian Music Centre
Honorable Mention:
Stephen Andrew Taylor, Quark Shadows for Horn, Viola, Double Bass and Prepared Piano
Available from the composer
Peter Winkler, Returning to the Root, Scena and Aria for Horn and Piano
Available from the IHS Online Music Library
Alan Charlton, Étude for solo Horn
Available from the IHS Online Music Library
Total submissions: 70 entries
International submissions: 13 nations, 17 entries, 24%
USA submissions: 21 states, 53 entries, 76%
Countries represented: Australia (1), Canada (1), Cyprus (1), France (1), Germany (2), Greece (1), Israel (1), Malta (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (1), Switzerland (1), United Kingdom (2), Venezuela (1)
States represented: California (4), Colorado (1), Florida (3), Georgia (1), Illinois (4), Kentucky (1), Maryland (3), Massachusetts (3), Michigan (5), Minnesota (1), Mississippi (1), Missouri (1), New Jersey (2), New York (6), Ohio (2), Oregon (2), Pennsylvania (2), Texas (5), Virginia (2), Washington (1), Wisconsin (3)
Judges
Patrick Smith, Professor of Horn, Virginia Commonwealth University
Don Freund, Professor of Composition, Indiana University
Frank Ticheli, Professor of Composition, University of Southern California