On Thursday morning at 9 am in room 10, four finalists will each perform a 20 minute program.  They will begin their performance by playing “the dethronement of the earth from its geometrical pre-eminence” by Samuel Peruzzolo-Vieira the winning piece in this year’s Composition Competition and then precede to play a piece of their choosing.  

We have an amazing panel of distinguished marimba artists judging the competition including Tom Burritt, Casey Cangelosi, Pius Cheung, Eriko Daimo, Christopher Norton, Janis Potter, and Gwen Thrasher. 

Preliminary round judges watched numerous videos to narrow down to the four finalists competing at PASIC.  Those judges included Ivana Bilic, Kevin Bobo, Tom Burritt, Casey Cangelosi, Scott Herring, Katarzyna Mycka, and Gwen Thrasher.  

Special thanks to Dynasty, Marimba One, and Malletech for providing their wonderful instruments for the finals!

The Schedule of finalists will be the following:

9 am - Sean Gill from Indiana University will perform “the dethronement of the earth from its geometrical pre-eminence” by Samuel Peruzzolo-Vieira, and “Ultimatum I” by Nebojsa Zivkovic.

9:30 am - Stephen Hall from Northwestern University will perform “the dethronement of the earth from its geometrical pre-eminence” by Samuel Peruzzolo-Vieira, and the 2nd movement of “Merlin” by Andrew Thomas.

10 am - Wai Chi Tang from the Manhattan School of Music will perform “the dethronement of the earth from its geometrical pre-eminence” by Samuel Peruzzolo-Vieira, and “Ripple” by Akira Miyoshi.

10:30 am - Marco Schirripa from Indiana University (Ithaca College in prelims) will perform “the dethronement of the earth from its geometrical pre-eminence” by Samuel Peruzzolo-Vieira, and movement’s III, Sarabande and IV, Toccata from Gunther Schuller’s “Marimbology”.

A winner will be announced at approximately 10:55 am.  Come out and see these amazing collegiate performers!

This competition is organized by the PAS Contest and Audition Procedure Committee.  Please visit our meeting scheduled for Friday at noon in Hilton room 410 and get involved!