Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Salvatore Martirano (1927–1995),^[1] who was an internationally acclaimed American composer and served as professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995.^[2] The first place prize consists of US$1,000 and a performance by the Illinois Modern Ensemble at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Awards

Year	First prize	Second prize	Other honors
1997	Jason Eckardt: Echoes' White Veil
1998	Karim Al-Zand: String Quartet
1999	Keith Moore: A Vagrant on Every Floor Craig Walsh: 0 to 33 in 1045.5
2000	Sophia Serghi: Sizzle
2001	Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Paisaje del Sonido II
2002	Yumiko Juvigny: Out of Dark Lair
2003	Edward Top: String Quartet
2004	Robert Yamasato: Scherzo
2005	Steven Rice: Murmurs from Limbo
2006	Douglas Boyce: 102nd & Amsterdam	Jorge García del Valle Méndez: Seok Yang Jong^[3]	Calogero Panvino: Sonata 101 (Honorable mention) Nicholas Paul Vines: Dolmen for a New Albion (Honorable mention)
2007	Takeo Hoshiya: Instability Principle	So Jeong Ahn: Ssa-reng, ui...	Christopher Arrell: Argot (Honorable mention)
2008	Abel Paúl: fragmentos del vértigo	Sungji Hong: Shades of Raindrops	Carl Bettendorf: Inner Life (Third prize)
2009	Michael Klingbeil: Tear of the Clouds	Vladimir Rannev: Variations on an Impulse	Christopher Bailey: Walking down the Hillside... (Honorable mention) Geoff Knorr: Of Consonance and Contention (Honorable mention)
2011	Louis Aguirre: Ochosi for string quartet	Marcin Stanczyk: Nibiru	Julien-Robert Legault Salvail: Chute libre (Third prize)
2012	Michael Seltenreich: Sparks and Flares	Stephen Yip: Dark Side of the Shadow
2013	Luís Antunes Pena: Im Rauschen Rot for double bass, percussion quartet, and electronics	Daniel Moreira: The King from Papatua	Alexander Khubeev: Sounds from the Dark Time (Third prize)
2014	Nina C. Young: Traced Upon Cinders for 13 musicians	Aurélio Edler-Copes: Encore Seule	David Coll: Act (Third prize)
2015	Matthew Ricketts: Flat Line for 15 players	Anthony Vine: For Agnes Martin
2016	James O'Callaghan: Among Am A for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics	Nicola Straffelini: Labyrinth Song for piccolo, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano
2017	Oren Boneh: Winter Walks That Gravel My Voice for viola and chamber ensemble	Igor Santos: Two Two for chamber ensemble	David Bird: Drop for string octet and strobe lights with electronics
2018	David Clay Mettens: Without Air for flute, viola, cello, harp, and percussion	Charles Peck: Sunburst for piano quartet
2019	Joshua Hey: I am in here for violin and cello	Katherine Balch: Prelude for piano and cello	Selim Goncu: Widerklang for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello
2020	Zhuosheng Jin: A Piece of Watermelon for soprano and six instrumentalists	Stylianos Dimou: les instances for large ensemble and diffused, synthesized soundso
2021	Luis Quintana: Smudges over dripping ink for piano and ensemble	Utku Asuroglu: In Between for chamber ensemble and electronics	Paul Novak: as the light begins to drift for sinfonietta (Honorable Mention)

References

^ Musical America. East Windsor, New Jersey: Commonwealth Business Media, 2006
^ Chase G: America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present. McGraw-Hill, page 620, 1966
^ Gasco JI: "Con la música a otra parte", La Rioja, November 16, 2006

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[1] Musical America. East Windsor, New Jersey: Commonwealth Business Media, 2006

[2] Chase G: America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present. McGraw-Hill, page 620, 1966

[3] Gasco JI: "Con la música a otra parte", La Rioja, November 16, 2006

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