The Stevenson Prize Concert
The Stevenson Prize Concert consists of compositions by current or former SEM members and features one or more works awarded the Robert M. Stevenson Prize (including the winner or
co-winners, runners-up, and honorable mentions). This concert is biennial.
Information about the Robert M. Stevenson Prize
The Robert M. Stevenson Prize honors ethnomusicologists who are also composers by awarding a composition prize to a current member of SEM or to a deceased former member of SEM (in recognition of either a particular work or of an entire oeuvre). For more information click here.
2017 Robert M. Stevenson Prize Concert
10/26/17
10-11PM
The Stevenson Prize Concert was held on Friday October 27 from 10-11PM in the Executive Room of the Denver City Marriott Hotel (1701 California St. Denver, CO 80202).
Program:
Terra Libertatis by Katelyn Best
Nikki Schommer, voice; Katelyn Best, voice; Ellen Waterman, flute; Miriam Gerberg, piano; Michael Bakan, percussion
Kurd by Michael Frishkopf
SEM Orchestra
Crane Songs by Cydonie Banting
Rhianna Fairchild, violin; Mei-Mey Seguira, violin
Ben Buzi by Miriam Gerberg
SEM Orchestra
Best Be by Charles Lwanga
Peñaflor by Alex Rodriguez
SEM Orchestra
SEM Orchestra: Scott Currie, director; Katelyn Best, publicist
Performers: Katelyn Best, voice; Scott Currie, saxophone; Noé Dinnerstein, electric sitar; Miriam Gerberg, piano/flute; Michael Frishkopf, piano/nay/percussion; Charles Lwanga, djembe; Alex Rodriguez, trombone; Nikki Schommer, voice; Ellen Waterman, flute;
2013 Robert M. Stevenson Prize Concert
11/14/13
9:00PM
The 2013 Stevenson Prize Concert was held on Friday November 15 from 9-10PM in the Indiana Ballroom of the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown.
Program:
Three pieces for piano by Michael Tenzer (b. 1957)
Madoka Asari, piano
Invention
Rag: Best Man’s Wish
Fugue
Sphinx by Michael Tenzer
Gamelan Gita Asmara
Pieces from Red Car Blues by Steven Loza (b. 1952)
Steven Loza, trumpet; Alex Rodriguez, trombone; David Wilson, tenor saxophone; Paul Austerlitz, bass clarinet; Scott Linford, bass; León García, guitar; Michael Frishkopf, piano; Jesse Ruskin, drums
América Tropical by Steven Loza
Mexico City Philharmonic
A Manhattan Sonata by Robert M. Stevenson (1916-2012)
Plamena Kourtova, piano
Pleiades Visions: Mauna Kea by Matthew Whitehouse (b. 1982)
Matthew Whitehouse, organ
Shades of 3 by Rohan Krishnamurthy (b. 1987)
Rohan Krishnamurthy, mridangam; Michael Bakan, dumbek
Forgotten Ways of Thinking (excerpt) by Shumaila Hemani (b. 1981)
Faqir Jumman Shah and his group at the shrine of Shah Latif, Pakistan; Veengas Yasmeen, recitation; Shumaila Hemani, narration
Shalom Rav by Michael Bakan (b. 1963)
Katelyn Best, lead vocal; Carlos Odria, guitar; Mia Gormandy, tenor pan; Michelle Jones, bass; Michael Bakan, percussion and background vocal
Fragments of a Yemenite by Tune Miriam Gerberg (b. 1955)
The SEM Orchestra: Scott Currie, conductor, Michael Bakan, Ann Clements, Charlotte D’Evelyn, Hilary V. Finchum-Sung, Michael Frishkopf, Sarah Neterer, Katelyn Best, Carlos Odria, Mia Gormandy, Michelle Jones
Past Recipients
2017
Cydonie Banting. "Crane Songs"
2015
Lwanga, Charles. "Best Be."
2013
Loza, Steven.
Tenzer, Michael.
2011
Racy, Ali Jihad. In Recognition of his Stellar Achievements in both Ethnomusicology and Composition.
2010
McGraw, Andrew Clay. "Radical Tradition: Balinese Musik Kontemporer." Ethnomusicology 53(1):115-141, 2009.
2009
Lechner, Ethan. "Composers as Ethnographers: Difference in the Imaginations of Colin McPhee, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
2005
Wen-Chung, Chou. Locating East Asia in Western Art Music, ed. By Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau, Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
2004
Tenzer, Michael. "Jose Maceda and the Paradoxes of Modern Composition in Southeast Asia." Ethnomusicology 47(1). 93-120. 2003.