ST. LOUIS, MO (January 30, 2020) Jane Meenaghan (18) from Los Angeles, California has been awarded First Place in the Level Two Division (ages 17-21) of the Community Music School (CMS) of Webster University’s Young Composers Competition for her composition titled
needles to the ground
. Judges described her work as "incredibly ambitious" with "wonderfully coloristic writing" and "truly magnificent!"
Meenaghan has been invited to St. Louis where her composition will be performed by musicians from
Chamber Project St. Louis
and recorded as part of the Young Composers Concert at 3:00 p.m. on March 21st. In addition, she will have the opportunity to get feedback on her work from visiting composer,
Angélica Negrón, Puerto Rican-born composer, multi-instrumentalist and Teaching Artist for the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers program.
"The students selected in this competition are among the best emerging young composers in the nation," said Carol Commerford, director of the CMS. "We received over 40 submissions from all over the country and from as far away as England and China. The CMS is proud to bring public performance and recognition to these new works and these young composers that represent the future of music in our communities."
More about Jane Meenaghan
Jane Meenaghan
(age 18) is a composer whose works seek to synthesize, recontextualize, and juxtapose diverse musical aesthetics and techniques in hybrid soundscapes. Jane has studied composition for two years under the tutelage of Ian Krouse at UCLA, Andrew Norman through the LA Phil Composer Fellowship Program, and Gity Razaz through Luna Lab. She has written works for ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, American Youth Symphony, AMF Orchestra, Tanglewood Young Artists’ Orchestra, and Lyris Quartet, and has received top honors from competitions including ASCAP Morton Gould (Bergen Scholarship), Avalon International, NFMC Junior Composers, NextNotes, and National YoungArts. Recent projects include a film score written under the tutelage of Michael Giacchino for the LA Phil’s ‘Symphonies for Schools’ concert series and a string quartet with electronics premiered at Lincoln Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
