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2012 Composition Contest Winners

August 03, 2012

Now in its 39th year, the Percussive Arts Society Percussion Composition Contest is designed to encourage and reward those who create music for percussion instruments and to increase the number of quality compositions written for percussion. Many of the contest winners are considered staples in modern percussion literature. Cash awards totaling $4,500 are distributed each year.

The 2012 PAS Composition Contest Winners are:

Drumset Soloist with Medium Percussion Ensemble
1. Concerto for Drumset and Percussion Ensemble Jamie Whitmarsh
2. From the Ground Up Anthony DiBartolo
3. Mile 37 Stephen Chiro

Unaccompanied Solo Marimba
1. the dethronement of the earth from its geometrical pre-eminence Samual Peruzzolo-Vieira
2. The Absurd World Tomasz Golinski
3. Pushing Nancarrow's Wheelbarrow John Parker

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