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Achievement



AWARDS

ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

2009 - Juhi Bansal
2008 - Eric Guinivan
2007 - Zhou Tian
2006 - Juhi Bansal
2005 - Zhou Tian
2004 - Zhou Tian
2000 - Carlos Rafael RIvera
1998 - Carlos Rafael RIvera

ASCAP/Lotte Lehman Art Song Competition
2009 - Zhou Tian
2009 - Eric Guinivan
2009 - Juhi Bansal
2007 - Isaac Schankler

ASCAP Victor Herbert Award
2008 - Sarah Gibson

BMI Student Composer Awards
2011 - David Werfelmann
2011 - Eric Guinivan
2010 - Eric Guinivan
2007 - Eric Guinivan
2007 - Roger Zare
1996 - Carlos Rafael RIvera

Lyrica Chamber Music Composition Contest
2009 - Dale Trumbore

NFMC Marion Richter American Music Composition Award
2010 - Sarah Gibson

Meet the Composer - MetLife Creative Connections
2009 - Chih-Chen Wei

NFMC Marion Richter American Music Composition Award
2010 - Sarah Gibson

Pacific Chorale Composition Contest
2008 - Matthew Brown (finalist)

Presser Music Award
2010 - Eric Guinivan

Society for Universal Sacred Music Composition Contest
2009 - Dale Trumbore

Symphony in C Young Composers Awards
2008 - Zhou Tian

Twenty Seventh Young Composers Competition, Barcelona
2006 - Nick Qosqadi (Honorable Mention)

Welcome Christmas! Carol Contest
2007 - Matthew Brown

Young New Yorkers'Chorus Composer Competition
2008 - Matthew Brown (finalist)



COMMISSIONS

Bay Brass Commission

2008 - Geoffrey Pope

First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
2009 - Mark Popeney

The Green Bay Symphony
2008 - Zhou Tian

Lawrence University Wind Ensemble
2010 - David Werfelmann

The Jupiter String Quartet
2007 - Zhou Tian

Michigan Music Teachers Association
2010 - Eric Guinivan

The Minnesota Orchestra
2007 - Zhou Tian

New York Youth Symphony
2005 - Roger Zare
2010 - Eric Guinivan

New York Symphony Singers
2007 - Eric Guinivan

Orange County Women's Chorus
2010 - Dale Trumbore

Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
"Youth for Youth" Commission

2006 - Geoffrey Pope


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Nevada Encounters of New Music

University of Nevada at Las Vegas
2008 - Juhi Bansal
2008 - Alex Miller

Society of Composers Inc. National Conference
2010 - Eric Guinivan

Society of Composers Inc. Region VI Conference
Oklahoma City University
2009 - Chih-Chen Wei

Society of Composers Inc. Region VIII Conference
University of Montana at Missoula
2005 - Alex Miller
2005 - Jesse Wright-FitzGerald

Society of Composers Inc. Region VIII Conference
University of Puget Sound
2010 - Alex Miller

UNK 2007 New Music Festival
University of Nebraska at Kearney
2007 - Alex Miller

Post Modern LA
California Lutheran University
2008 - Alex Miller

San Francisco Community Music Center
Annual Festival of Contemporary Music
2010 - Alex Miller
2009 - Alex Miller
2009 - Chih-Chen Wei


FESTIVALS

Aspen Music Festival & School

2009 - Eric Guinivan
2008 - Alex Miller
2007 - Benjamin Phelps
2005 - Jordan Nelson
2005 - Zhou Tian
2004 - Jesse Wright-FitzGerald
2004 - A.J. McCaffrey

Asian Composers League
Asian Contemporary Music Festival, Korea
2009 - Chih-Chen Wei

Brevard Music Center
2007 - Isaac Schankler

Bowdoin International Music Festival
2007 - Bob Lydecker
2003 - Alex Miller

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
2010 - Jordan Nelson
2009 - Alex Miller
2007 - Jesse Wright-FitzGerald

Fontainebleau Music Festival
2004 - Zhou Tian

Pacific Music Festival
2008 - Juhi Bansal

Tanglewood Music Festival
2003 - A.J. McCaffrey
2002 - Zhou Tian


PUBLICATIONS

HoneyRock Percussion Publishers

Eric Guinivan

VP Music Media
Alex Miller


READINGS

American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings

2009 - Ivor Frances
2008 - Leanna Primiani
2008 - Roger Zare (alumnus)
2005 - Carlos Rafael Rivera (Awarded Honorable Mention)
2005 - Zhou Tian

Minnesota Orchestra Reading Sessions and Composer Institute
2006 - Zhou Tian

Penderecki Quartet LACMA Readings
2004 - Juhi Bansal


USC INTERNAL AWARDS

Peter David Faith
2003 - Andrew Norman
2004 - Eric Lindsay
2005 - Paul Dooley
2006 - Carlos Rafael Rivera
2007 - Roger Zare
2008 - Juhi Bansal
2009 - Jordan Nelson
2010 - Mark Popeney

Jimmy McHugh
2003 - Jeffrey Holmes
2004 - Tom Osborne
2005 - Steven Gates
2006 - Lucille Meyers, Paul Kwo
2007 - Matthew Brown
2008 - Ross Garren
2009 - Alex Miller
2010 - Eric Guinivan

Sadye J. Moss
2004 - Vincent Ho
2005 - Gustave Greely
2006 - John Glover
2007 - Ben Phelps
2008 - Ivor Frances
2009 - Eric Guinivan

Hans J. Salter
2003 - Matthew Brown
2004 - Andrew Norman
2005 - Michael Early
2006 - Michael Early
2007 - Christopher Roze
2008 - Eric Guinivan
2009 - A.J. MCCaffrey


Note for USC Composers & Composition Alumni: If you have additional items you would like added to this list, please email Alex Miller at: Alexander.E.Miller@gmail.com

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