Lansing McLosekyComposer Lansing McLoskey of Miami, FL has achieved 3rd Place
nationally in The American Prize in Band/Wind Ensemble Composition competition,
2013professional division, for the work "What We Do Is Secret" McLoskey
was selected from applications reviewed this spring from all across the United
States. The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit, competitions
unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best
performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on
submitted recordings. The American Prize was founded in 2009 and is
awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Complete information on
the website: www.theamericanprize.org.
The composer provided this autobiographical sketch:
Described as "a major talent and a deep thinker with a great ear"
by the American Composers Orchestra, "an engaging, gifted composer writing
smart, compelling and fascinating music" by Gramophone Magazine, and
"a distinctive voice in American music composer Lansing McLoskey has had
his music performed in fourteen countries on six continents. He has won more
than two dozen national and international awards, including the prestigious
Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
the inaugural International Joint Wind Quintet Project Commission Competition.
Recent performances include concerts in Italy, Spain, England, New York, Los
Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Miami, and Melbourne, Australia, and
performances at fourteen music festivals in the past two seasons. Associate
Professor at the University of Miami, McLoskeys music is released on Albany,
Wergo Schallplatten, Capstone, Tantara, and Beauport Classics and published by
Theodore Presser, Reed Music, ACA, Subito, and Odhecaton Z Music.
Among judges' comments: "Mystery, raucousness and a number of
good-humored moments all make this piece successful....concentrated on the
coloristic possibilities of the winds and percussion...Mr. McLoskey has a great
ear and compositional chops."
For a list of winning composers and runners-up for 2013, please follow this
link:
http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2013/07/announcing-composition-winners-band-2013.html
Finalists for The American Prize receive professional adjudication
and regional, national and international recognition based on their recorded
performances. In addition to written evaluations from judges, winners and
runners-up are profiled on The American Prize website, where links will
lead to winners' websites.