Musical Performance Award

Doug Davis Composition and Performance Endowment of CSUB

Select a composition from the dropdown menu below to enter the appropriate submission. Partial performances of multi-movement works are still eligible for award consideration. The deadline each year is December 31. Afterwards, submitted performances are adjudicated and awards are designated. Some scores and recordings can be downloaded from the list below. All compositions are open for performance submissions. The Submission Entry Form is below the list of Compositions (2024-2028) and Recent Awards Given.

Compositions

2024 Doug Davis: Family Portraits (Song Cycle) (for his 75th birthday) - $3,000 minimum

2024 Johanny Navarro: Commission for a Choral Composition - $4,000

  • Commission Process Completed

2024 Doug Davis: B & Me for Jazz Ensemble (5/4/4/4) - $3,000

2025 Jack Behrens: Feast of Life for Solo Piano (for his 90th birthday) - $3,000 minimum

2025 Doug Davis: Dust Swirls, then Speaks for Orchestra (2222/4331/Timp2/Hrp/Str) - $5,000 minimum

2026 Ron Kean: American Mass (for his 75th birthday) - $5,000 minimum

2027 Bennie Wallace: Selected Compositions (TBD) (for his 80th birthday) - $4,000 minimum

2028 Doug Davis: Psalm of an Orange Angel for Orchestra (2222/3221/timp2/pn/str) (for his 80th birthday) - $10,000 minimum

Recent Awards Given

2023 Doug Davis: Family Portraits (Song Cycle) - $13,100

  • Grand Prizes (multiple):
    1. Juliet Papadopoulos, soprano; Tomoko Nakayama, piano (New Haven, Connecticut)
    2. Claire McCahan, mezzo-soprano; Barbie Noyes, piano (Horizon Duo) (Plymouth, New Hampshire)
  • First Prizes (multiple):
    1. Alisa Jordheim, soprano; Kuang-Hao Huang, piano (Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois)
    2. Emily Truckenbrod, soprano; Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
    3. Maria Briggs, soprano; Peter Klimo, piano (Fresno, California)
    4. Chunghee Lee, soprano; Soo-Yeon Park, piano (Fort Lee, New Jersey)
  • Honorable Mentions (multiple):
    1. Ina Guitterez, soprano; Tess Shaw, piano (Bakersfield, California)
    2. Michelle Rice, mezzo soprano; James Lent, piano (Los Angeles, California)
    3. Cynthia Wohlschlager, mezzo soprano; Eric Jenkins, piano (Kennesaw, Georgia)
    4. Emily Sinclair, soprano; Chia-Lin Yang, piano (Santa Cruz, California)
    5. Kirsten Ashley Wiest, soprano; Nadia Shpachenko, piano (Pomona, California)

2023: Discretionary Composer Awards (For Prize, Commission, Or Honorarium) - $5,000

  • Sejong Soloists, (Award winner for Earl Kim: Where Grief Slumbers) given to composer:
    Tod Machover: Overstory Overture (in support of a commissioned work for Sejong Soloists and Joyce DiDonato) premiere March 7, 2023, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
  • Jacob Shafer, (Award winner for Michael Friedmann: Fantasy for solo violin) given to composer:
    Max Vinetz: in recognition of "who brings on evening," for solo violin, premiered in June, 2023
  • Felix Wang, (Award winner for Lukas Foss: Capriccio for cello and piano) given to composer:
    Allysa Weinberg: in support of her continued composition.
  • Heather Conner, (Award winner for Lukas Foss: Capriccio for cello and piano) given to composer:
    Samuel Zyman: in support of his next composition and performance of his Viola Sonata
  • Robert McClure: Celestial Minatures (2023) for solo piano performed by:
    Emely Phelps at the SCI Regional Conference at Ohio University on November 3, 2023
  • Juliet Papadopoulos (Award winner for Doug Davis: Family Portraits) given to composer:
    Colin Laursen in support of his next composition.

2023: Discretionary Performance Or Project Awards ($4,500)

  • Callithumpian Consort: for performance of Earl Kim: Where Grief Slumbers: Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; with the Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor/ music director; Maria Rindenello-Spraker, harp; Lilit Hartunian, Caroline Jesalva, Jordan Hadrill, and Natalie Boberg, violins; Julian Sneige-Seney and Asher Boorstin, violas; Stephen Marotto and Jeffrey Ho, cellos (Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory)
  • Emely Phelps: for performance of Robert McClure: Celestial Minatures for solo piano
  • Ty Kim for his documentary film Earl, the story of composer Earl Kim, with appearances of Itzhak Perlman, Benita Valente, John Harbison, Paul Salerni, and Kim’s family with performances of Sejong Soloists

Previous and Additional Awards

Previous award winners

Performance Submission Entry Form