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BMI Classical Composers Win Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

BMI congratulates five young classical composers who are recent winners of major music prizes awarded by the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. The membership of the Academy, which is comprised of some of America’s most prominent composers, artists, architects and writers, nominates candidates for these awards. Kevin Puts is the first winner of the newly inaugurated Benjamin H. Danks Award, a $20,000 prize given to an “exceptional young…