Carlos Carrillo studied at the Eastman School of Music, Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2003. Mr. Carrillo is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a BMI Student Composer Award, a First Music Commission from the New York Youth Symphony, the Bearns Prize, and the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His music has been performed previously by the ACO, Casals Festival, Young Musician Foundation's Debut Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he is currently on the faculty of DePauw University. The Carlos Surinach Commissioning Program is made possible by a generous legacy from Carlos Surinach, the late composer and conductor, who left his entire estate to the BMI Foundation to be used to support young classical composers. According to Jackson, "This is a unique program in which the judges are choosing a composer to write a work which they will premiere." The new Carrillo work will be the second commission created for the ACO through this program. Works have previously been commissioned for David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestra and marimba virtuoso Makoto Nakura. Composers who have previously received the award include Kevin Puts, Gordon Beeferman and David Schober. The BMI Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1985 to support the creation, performance, and study of music, through awards, scholarships, commissions and grants. Tax deductible donations to the Foundation come primarily from songwriters, composers and publishers, BMI employees and members of the public with a special interest in music. Because both the Foundation staff and the distinguished members of the Advisory Panel serve without compensation, over 97% of all donations and income are used for charitable grants.]]> 2004-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233889 Jackson, Ralph, Schober, David, Classical, Foundation David Schober (right) is seen here with marimba virtuoso Makato Nakura (center) and BMI Foundation President Ralph Jackson at the US premiere of Schober's solo marimba work entitled Taepoong. The piece, commissioned by the BMI Foundation's Carlos Surinach Fund, was presented recently in Merkin Hall in New York City. The world premiere occurred in Tokyo, Japan in March of this year in a nationally televised concert on NHK.

]]> 2003-11-03T17:00:00-05:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/200001 Beeferman, Gordon, Schober, David, Classical, Foundation, Carlos Surinach Commissions Gordon Beeferman and David Schober are recipients of Carlos Surinach Commission awards. They were selected from an impressive pool of young BMI affiliated classical composers, all of whom were recent winners of the BMI Foundation’s prestigious Student Composer Awards program. David Alan Miller, Music Director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and marimba virtuoso Makoto Nakura served as the judges for the competition.

Miller will conduct the Albany Symphony Orchestra in the premiere of Beeferman’s Morbidity and Mortality Report as part of it’s American Music Festival on March 14th at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY. Marimba virtuoso Makoto Nakura will present the US premiere of Schober’s solo marimba work Taepoong in Merkin Hall, New York City on October 14, 2003. The world premiere of the Schober work occurred on March 3, 2003 in Tokyo Japan in a nationally televised (NHK) concert.

According to Jackson “this is a unique competition in which the judges, in this case an orchestra conductor and a solo marimbist, are choosing composers to create works which they will premiere. The Foundation was incredibly lucky to be working with David Alan Miller and Makoto Nakura, two truly remarkable musicians, both of whom are outstanding champions of new American music. Nakura is one of the finest marimbists in the world and has commissioned and performed dozens of new works. And of course, David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony are known world-wide for their fine performances and enduring commitment to new music.”

David Schober was born in 1974 is currently a doctoral candidate and a fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor. He has received a Theodore Presser Foundation grant to study at Yonsei University in South Korea, two BMI Student Composer Awards, the San Francisco State University Wayne Peterson Composition Prize, the Aaron Copland Award, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Commissions have come from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Naumburg Foundation (for the Miró String Quartet), eighth blackbird, violinist Gregory Fulkerson and the Fromm Foundation.

Gordon Beeferman was born in 1976 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, where he received a B.M. in composition and was awarded the Stanley Medal, the School's highest undergraduate honor. Beeferman has received three BMI Student Composer Awards (including the 2002 William Schuman Prize) and the BMG/Williams College National Awards to Young Composers Grand Prize, as well as fellowships from Tanglewood and the Copland Heritage Society. He has been awarded grants from the American Music Center and has received commissions from the New York Youth Symphony and guitarist David Leisner. His music has been performed in New York, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Rome, and elsewhere.

The BMI Foundation Inc./Carlos Surinach Commissions are made possible by a generous legacy from Carlos Surinach, the late composer and conductor, who left his entire estate to the BMI Foundation to be used to support young classical composers. The BMI Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1985 to support the creation, performance, and study of music, through awards, scholarships, commissions and grants. Tax deductible donations to the Foundation come primarily from songwriters, composers and publishers, BMI employees and members of the public with a special interest in music. Because both the Foundation staff and the distinguished members of the Advisory Panel serve without compensation, over 97% of all donations and income are used for charitable grants.

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