Former KMH student awarded by ASCAP
Adrian Knight was one of the recipients of the 2010 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The young composers will be recognized at the annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards at The Times Center in New York on May 27, 2010.
Commenting on the awards, president Paul Williams said, "The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Awards program provides recognition and cash awards to gifted young composers of Concert Music. There were 730 submissions this year and our dedicated jury selected 37 composers between the ages of 13 and 29 years of age. We congratulate the recipients and thank our ASCAP composer judges for their efforts to select these talented young creators, who represent the bright future of American Concert Music."
Established in 1979, with funding from the Jack and Amy Norworth Memorial Fund, The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Awards program grants cash prizes to young Concert Music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a juried national competition. These composers may be American citizens, permanent residents, or students possessing US Student Visas.
Morton Gould, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, served as President of ASCAP and The ASCAP Foundation from 1986 - 1994. Gould, an eminent and versatile American composer, was a child prodigy whose first composition was published by G. Schirmer when he was only six years of age. To honor Gould's lifelong commitment to encouraging young creators, the annual ASCAP Foundation Young Composer program was dedicated to his memory, following his death in 1996.
Adrian Knight
Adrian Knight is a composer (b. 1987, Uppsala, Sweden) of mainly
works for mixed ensembles of acoustic and electronic instruments.
Between 2006 and 2009 he studied with among others Pär Lindgren and
Jesper Nordin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and is now
pursuing a master’s degree in composition at Yale School of Music,
studying with David Lang.
His music is generally characterised
by its sense of breath through the use of volume envelopes, monolithic
forms, pulse textures and harmonic saturation.
He has
collaborated with among others the Swedish wind ensemble with Michael
Bartosch, harmonica virtuoso Filip Jers, Jan Risberg’s Futurum ensemble,
and KMH symphony orchestra with Daniel Blendulf.
Recent works include “livet innanför väggarna” for two violas, ‘cello and double bass; “världens undergång” for four loudspeakers; “ricky bruch” for five micro modular synthesizers; “Manchester” for large orchestra with electronics; and “Music of spaces” for chromatic harmonica, piano, percussion and fixed and live electronics.
Since 2008, he operates “the smallest record label in the world”, Närproducerat, and has released five albums so far, with, in addition to his own works, music by fellow composers Magnus Bunnskog, Sebastian Lakatos and Victor Lisinski.
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