After reviewing 270 submissions from all over the world, the PRISMS committee is excited to announce that Inga Chinilina’s time slips through our fingers like sand, for percussion trio, was selected as the winner of the call for scores.
The committee also selected five honorable mentions, whose works will be presented at this year’s festival:
- Alberto Carretero, Fata Morgana for sax quartet
- Katia Geha, quartet for a broken world, for four performers and a brick
- Luis Quintana, Junkyard Construction: Why stop the swing?, for fixed media
- Luis Ramirez, PROMPT, for two tenor saxophones and audio
- Daniel Sabzghabaei, At any rate II. باقی مانده "what remains", for string quartet
Inga Chinilina is a composer, improviser, and pianist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work includes music for acoustic instruments from solo to orchestra, electronic music, and a mix of both. In addition to stand-alone music pieces, Inga also makes installations, music for dance and film.
Ensembles that have performed Inga C’s music include Either/Or, The Empyrean, Dal Niente, Jack Quartet, ICE Ensemble, line upon line percussion trio, Loadbang, Longleash Trio, Lydian String Quartet, Neave Trio, No Exit, Sound Icon, Russia State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble, Splice, Talea, and Yarn/Wire.
Inga is a PhD candidate in “Music and Multimedia Composition” at Brown University. Her research explores how composers represent sound entities that bare emotional meaning and posses complex timbre through the use of Western-European instruments. Inga holds a BM in Composition and Performance from Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University.
2024 CALL FOR SCORES:
ASU’s PRISMS Festival seeks pieces relating to our 2024 theme of Music and Utopia. One selected composer will receive a prize of $650, and their piece will be performed on October 5 or 6 in Tempe, AZ. The concert will also be video-recorded and live-streamed on YouTube.
Pieces must be 15 minutes or less. Instrumentation may be any of the following:
- String quartet (plus electronics if desired)
- Saxophone quartet (plus electronics if desired)
- Saxophone duo with electronics
- Acousmatic or fixed-media works (audio and/or video)
- Percussion ensemble (plus electronics if desired)
Electronics can use up to four channels of audio.
Composers must have the rights to use all materials in their pieces, including text, visuals, etc. Submitted pieces may not be under an exclusive performance contract with any performer or ensemble.
Selected composers are required to attend the festival; PRISMS can offer lodging and local transportation. The winner will give a talk and may participate in a roundtable during the festival.
Selection will be made by the PRISMS Committee. This competition has no entry fee, no age or geographic limit, and no restriction on whether pieces have been performed, published, or awarded in the past. Composers are free to submit one piece per category.
If you have any questions, please email prisms@asu.edu
Deadline for application: July 15, 2024.
Winners will be announced August 19, 2024.
Please click here to apply.