Editor: David Mills
Blue Hill, ME, April 15, 2012: The 16th statewide Young Composers’ Festival, sponsored by the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, was held on Saturday, April 14 in Emlen Hall at The Bay School in Blue Hill. Twenty-seven students from throughout the state of Maine submitted their original compositions for judging by three esteemed professional musicians: John Cooper, Professor of Music and Composer in Residence at College of the Atlantic; Fred Goldrich, director of the Bangor Concert Band; and Beth Weiman, an accomplished composer and Professor of Music at University of Maine. The 2012 Young Composers’ Competition and Festival was sponsored in part by Camden National Bank, The First and Tradewinds Marketplace.
Cash awards were given in two categories. In Category I – Young Composers Through Age 13: 1st place went to Samantha Berry of Windham for her piano composition Dilemme des Roulettes: The Clockwork Dilemma; 2nd place was awarded to Kyra Teboe of Brunswick for Paradise, written for tenor saxophone, percussion, guitar, electric bass and piano; and third place was given to Ella Forbes of North Bridgton for her piano piece Mirage. Alex Ecker of Scarborough received honorable mention for Changing Tides for solo piano.
In Category II – Young Composers Age 14 Through High School: 1st place was awarded to Christopher Staknys of Falmouth for his composition The Pier, written for clarinet, viola, cello and piano; 2nd place went to Grace Jameson of Waldoboro for her piece for soprano, alto and piano entitled Past Days; and 3rd place awards were given to Hunter McKay of York for his saxophone quartet Saxis of Evil and Elliot Wallace of Hulls Cove for his composition for violin, soprano, tenor/baritone, piano and electric bass entitled Out of the Ashes.
The Bagaduce Music Lending Library, a 501©(3) tax-exempt corporation, was founded in 1983 to provide music library access to performers and music lovers nationwide. The Music Library now has over one million pieces of catalogued music, representing 200,000+ scores and sheet-music titles. Along with the annual Young Composers’ Competition and Festival, the Music Library is host to the Blue Hill Pops Concert on July 3rd each year, a summer-season tradition in Downeast Maine.
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