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NATS names Jeffrey Ryan first place winner of 2021 Art Song Composition Award
posted on 8:00 AM, February 4, 2021
Drumroll, please… the 2021 winning composition is “Everything Already Lost”
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Jeffrey Ryan has won first prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing 2021 Art Song Composition Award for his work,
“Everything Already Lost.” As first prize winner, Ryan will receive $2,000 and the work will be performed at the 57th NATS National Conference, which is slated for July 2022 in Chicago. Additionally, the Cincinnati Song Initiative also will program the work on a future concert as part of its Americana series.
Ryan’s “Everything Already Lost” is an art song cycle for baritone and piano featuring the poetry of Jan Zwicky. The cycle premiered November 19, 2020, in a virtual concert by Music on Main and recorded at Chan Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, with Tyler Duncan, baritone and Erika Switzer, piano. The work is a four-song set.
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In lieu of its traditional end-of-term concert this fall, the Carleton College Choir recorded and pieced together a performance of “#UnitedWeDream,” a composition by Melissa Dunphy and poetry by Claudia D. Hernández.
The composition raises up a life story involving immigration and the DREAM Act. The work is a collaboration between two artists composer Melissa Dunphy and writer and photographer Claudia D. Hernández with personal stories of immigration and refugeeism. Hernández is well known for her work founding the project, Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color.
“I selected #UnitedWeDream hoping it would offer the Carleton Choir and myself an interdisciplinary opportunity to learn from life stories that may differ from our own,” said Matthew Olson, director of choral activities. “We are striving to approach works such as #UnitedWeDream with respect and humility, seeking to listen deeply to the life experiences of underrepresented composers and poets, knowing
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