ALEA III

Contemporary Music Ensemble
in residence at Boston University

Theodore Antoniou, music director
 
 

The ALEA III International Composition Prize



 
 
 
 
 
 


1980 Finalists



Elizabeth Vercoe (USA) Herstory II
John Melby (USA) Concerto for Violin and
  Computer-synthesized Tape
Jeffrey Wood (USA) Wounded Bird
Joseph Pelphrey (Germany) Pianto
Chinary Ung (Cambodia) Khse Buon
Daniel A. Kessner (USA) Chamber Concerto no. 3 (Honorable Mention)
Adrian David (USA) String Quartet
Marc-Antonio Consoli (USA) Vuci Siculani (First Prize)



1981 Finalists


Rupert Bawden (England) Scena
Ronald Lubetsky (USA) Sonnet Cycle
Zack D. Browning (USA) Quintet for Winds
Simon Kenneth Holt (England) Wyrd Changing
Brian Fennelly (USA) Scintilla Prisca



1985 Finalists


Josefino Toledo (Phillipines) Tula-li
Luis Jorge Gonzalez (Argentina) Luminescences
Robert Bradford Carl (USA) Windriver
Andrew Vores (England) Humming Harvest Gone Snow Motor (First Prize)
Giuseppe Colardo (Italy) Novelletta
James Harley (Canada) String Quartet
Franco Balliana (Italy) Dove la Luce
Federico Emirio (Italy) Musica Concertante per Viola e 15 Esecutori
Max E. Keller (Switzerland) Zustand



1986 Finalists


Minas Alexiadis (Greece) Dodekagon
Philip Cashian (England) Gulliver
William Coble (USA) Brass Mirrors
Mark Gustavson (USA) Four Love Songs
Aaron Jay Kernis (USA) Passacaglia-Variations
Martin Matalon (Argentina) Five Monotypes for Piano
Christopher Vassiliades (USA) Les Metamorphoses du Vampire
Param Vir (India) Pragati (First Prize)
Judith Lang Zaimont (USA) De Infiritate Caeleste



1987 Finalists


Daniel Doura (Argentina) Quintet 1984
Bernd Franke, (Germany) Die Zeit (First Prize)
Thomas Oboe Lee (USA) String Quartet No. 5
Joseph Papadatos (Greece) Braarmarapha
Ilias Papadopoulos (Greece) Miroloi
Paolo Ricci (Italy) Green Self -Portrait
Uros Rojko (Yugoslavia) Music for Twelve
Su Lian Tan (Malaysia) Translutions for Nine
Bruce Taub (USA) Extremities II



1988 Finalists


James W. Bennett III (USA) Array! Surrection!
Konstantin Bokas (Greece) Painting
Pietro Borradori (Italy) Dialogues Entre Mtopes (First Prize)
Eleanor Cory (USA) String Quartet
Dimitrios Minakakis (Greece) Trilogy Erotical
Sydney Hodkinson (Canada) Das Lebewohl
Kenneth Olson (USA) SŽrŽnade Magique
William Susman (USA) Twisted Figures
Hans Vogt (Germany) Serenade and Tarantella
Cheng-Yong Wang (China) Sonchrivated



1989 Finalists


Luigi Abbate (Italy) Eremo
Javier GimŽnez-Noble (Argentina) Tritimes
Michail Goleminov (Bulgaria) Chamber Concerto
Alexandros Kalogeras (Greece) Lokrion
David Macbride (USA) String Quartet
David Pickel (USA) On a Ray of Winter Light
Andrew Vores (England) The World, the World, and the World
Christos Samaras (Greece) Apologie II (First Prize)
Cheng-Yong Wang (China) Four Preludes



1990 Finalists


Christos Anastassiou (Greece) Anakyklisis
Nag Bhushan (India) On the Edge of the Sea (First Prize)
Kim Bowman (Netherlands) Phenomena in Spectra
Jorge Horst (Argentina) Madrigale a Gesualdo
Daniel Kastner (USA) Tracer (Igor's View)
Thomas Allen LeVines (USA) Velocities
Georgia Molfeta (Greece) Epikon
Riccardo Nova (Italy) Carved Out
Zhou Long (China) Shi Jing Cantata



1991 Finalists


Christophe Looten (France) Incoronato Poeta
MG Hynes (Canada) L'ombre Du M. Haller
Michalis Lapidakis (Greece) Vera Quartet
Andrew List (USA) String Quartet Nr. 1 in Eight Movements
Yong Yang (China) Octette (First Prize)
Katharine Norman (England) Memory Places
Michail Goleminov (Bulgaria) "KonzertstŸck" II
Corrado Vitale (Italy) Rajas
David Pickel (USA) Soft Voices in the Memory



1992 Finalists

Andreas Argyrou (Cyprus) Variations for Chamber Orchestra
Cindy Cox (USA) Sonnets to Orpheus
John Drumheller (USA) Ragged Tree at Olive Ridge
Jun Fu (China) String Quartet No. 1
David Lefkowitz (USA) Calder's Closet
Luca Macchi (Italy) Concerto per Contrabasso e Ensemble
Marin Michaylov (Austria/Bulgaria) String Quartet
Nicolas Papadimitriou (Greece) PrŽlude et Danse
Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan) Presentiment (First Prize)



1993 Finalists

Paul Barsom (USA) Second Prize Vesper
Richard Nelson (USA) Illuminations
Heather Anne Schmidt (Canada) Cinq Pices Brves
Stamatis Athanasoulas (Greece) Elegia (First Prize)
Giorgio Tedde (Italy) Vocello
Tom Williams (England) Ironwork (Second Prize)
Yong Yang (China) Twilight in a Cold Gorge



1994 Finalists



Anthony Cornicello (USA) Le cittˆ invisibili III: Zaira
Kui Dong (China) The Blue Melody (First Prize)
Carlos GrŠtzer (Argentina) Mouvements
Paolo Minetti (Italy) Choreographik
Apostolos Paraskevas (Greece) Invocation
Thomas Reiner (Germany) Bali Suite
Beth Wiemann (USA) Canopy
 



1995 Finalists


James Boznos (USA) The Shamen bk. 1
Ian J. Crutchley (Canada) Triptych
Evangelia Kikou (Greece) Noneto
Jing Jing Luo (China) The Spell
David Charles Martin (England) The Dance of the Maenades
Laura Elise Schwendinger (USA) Chamber Concerto (First Prize)
Thomas Whitman (USA) The Deathwatch Beetle
Jongwoo Yim (Korea) Reaction for 12 Instruments



1996 Finalists


Eliane Aberdam (France) Passages
George Hatzimichelakis (Greece) SamandakasŐ Dance
Drew Hemenger (USA) The Unforgettable Hour (First Prize - shared)
Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr (South Africa) Fragment from ŇPrometheus UnboundÓ
Jorge Liderman (Argentina) BŐreshit
Jo‹o Pedro Oliveira (Portugal) Peregrination(First Prize - shared)
Paolo Tortiglione (Italy) LŐAttimo Rapito (First Prize - shared)
Gregory C. Smith (USA) Fire Mountain



1997 Finalists


Caterina Calderoni (Italy) Here and Somewhere
Jongwoo Yim (South Korea) Helix
Roman Yacub (Ukraine) Castalian Dances
Vincent Paulet (France) Musique pour Douze Instruments(First Prize)
Athina Pavlaki (Greece) Thunderings
Vicente Avella (Venezuela) En el Fondo Forestal del D’a
James R. Kallembach (USA) Four Songs on Poems of e. e. Cummings
Bruce Hamilton (USA) Verges



1998 Finalists


Jason Edward Brown (USA) String Quartet
Joseph Diermaier (Austria) Harmonices et Cadenza
Dimitri Sykias (Greece) Winter NightŐs Variations
Ana Mihajlovic Van Leyden (Yugoslavia) Full Auto Shut-Off
Luminita-Cristina Spinu (Romania) Songs and Poems without Words
Michalis Economou (Greece) Ealo o Adis (First Prize)



1999 Finalists


Jude Weirmeir (USA) Fragments of PrometheusUnbound(First Prize)
RenŽ Mense (Germany) En Face dŐ en Face
Nickos Panayiotakis (Greece) Peristrofes I & II
Aureliano Cattaneo (Italy) Poisson Soluble
Bal‡zs Horv‡th (Hungary) Timesongs



2000 Finalists


Efstathios Gyftakis (Greece) Interludes
Marc Faris (USA) Facing
Leontios Hadjileontiadis (Greece) Amphichrona
Tonino Tesei (Italy) Five Portraits (Second Prize)
Itamar Erez (Israel) Concerto for 13 Instruments
Vladimir Beluntsov (Russia) Serenade 2000 (First Prize)


2001 Finalists

Sabang Cho  (Korea) Reflection
Moritz Eggert (Germany) Croatoan III: Perpetuum Mobile
Lior Navok (Israel) Three Episodes (First Prize)
Kurt Rohde (U.S.A.) Five Dickinson Settings
Athanasia Tzanou (Greece) Triptique
Tonino Tesei (Italy) Portrait of George Dyer Riding a Bicycle



2002 Finalists

Mei-Fang Lin (Taiwan) Time Tracks
Timothy Melbinger (USA) Clarinet Quintet
Panagiotis Liaropoulos (Greece) Orientations Beta (ALEA III Prize)
Orie Sato (Japan) Last Words
Sara Carvalho (Portugal) nothing can both be and not be
Diego Vega (Colombia) Movement for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
(20th Anniversary Prize)



2003 Finalists

Yumiko Morita (Japan) Braided Color
Frank Zabel (Germany) Concertino for Piano and Ensemble
Iossif Valette (Greece) MusesŐ Sacred Gift
Tony K. T. Leung (Canada) Six Degrees of Separation
Jimmy L—pez (Peru) KŐasa (First Prize)
Bjorn Berkhout (USA) Zapstar



2004 Finalists

Hee Yun Kim (Republic of Korea) "Reversion is the Movement of Tao"
Jorge Sancho Cebollero (Spain) "Et Resurrexi"
Joseph Sheehan (USA) Dance Dance Revelation
ƒric Marty (Canada) Buoyancy (First Prize Shared)
Karl Fiorini (Malta) Trio "Lamina" (First Prize Shared)
Basil Athanasiades (Greece) this leaf is selected . . .



2005 Finalists

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil) Siray
Martha Callison Horst (USA) Threads (First Prize Shared)
John Patrick Anderson (USA) Slippery Slopes
Mario Carro (Spain) Glosas (First Prize Shared)
Michael Pelzel (Switzerland) ". . . par la brume flottante. . ."
Smaro C. Gregoriadou (Greece) 3 Fragments of Heraclitus



2006 Finalists

Tim Sullivan (USA) Thoughts
Tassos Stylianou (Cyprus) "Stoes" (Honorable Mention)
Iluminada Perez Frutos (Spain) Callado lamento sin orilla
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (England) The Dream Bearer
Nicolas Tzortzis (Greece) Senza Memoria
Sebastian Rapacki (Sweden) Rhapsodie (First Prize)



2007 Finalists


Matthew Ricketts  (Canada)  Double Concerto
(First Prize Shared)
Voro García i Fernández  (Spain)  Territoris de la memòria
Byron Weigel 
(U.S.A.)  Lucid Dreams
Dimitris Gogossis 
(Greece)  Concerto for Eight
Tom Rojo Poller 
(Germany)  Gehen
Stephen Yip 
(Hong Kong)  Shadow of Golconda
(First Prize Shared)



 
 

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