Dutch composer Otto Ketting and his Symphony No. 3 have won the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition International Competition at Brigham Young University.
The Ketting symphony led a field of 230 entries in this year's contest. The work will be performed by David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony during the 1993-94 concert season. Composed in 1989-90, the piece is based on the final chord of Ravel's "Ronsard a Son Ame."In addition several Utahns received 15 Barlow Commissions. BYU alumnus Kurt Bestor was commissioned for a new full-length ballet for Ballet West, while BYU faculty members Parley Belnap and Don Cook represented a group of composers who will compile a publication of new organ music.
Other commission recipients, selected from a field of more than 90 applicants, include:
- Henryk Gorecki of Poland, for a work for soprano and string quartet to be performed by the Kronos Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw.
- William Bolcom of Ann Arbor, Mich., for a concerto to be premiered by James Galway and the St. Louis Symphony.
- Bernard Rands of Boston, Mass., for a work for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
- Chou Wen-chung of New York for a work for the Cleveland Quartet.
- Jonathan Kramer of New York for a piece for two pianos and percussion to be presented by the Percussion Group of Cin-cin-nati.
- Cindy McTee of Denton, Texas, for a piece for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
- James Mobberly of Kansas City, Mo., for a piano concerto to be performed by Richard Cass and the Kansas City Symphony.
- Glenn Palmer of Kansas City for a work for the University of Michigan Symphonic Band.
- Fredereck Speck of New Albany, Ind., for a clarinet concerto for Richard Stolzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Ricardo Lorenz of Bloomington, Ind., for a work for Zeitgeist of St. Paul, Minn.
- Nathan Currier of New York City for a new work for harpist Marie Pierre Langlamet.
- Henry Gwiazda of Moorhead, Minn., for a new work for flute and electronic pitch transposer.
- Betsy Schramm of New York for a new work for Boston's Musica Viva.
The Barlow Endowment was established at BYU in September 1983 by Milton A. and Gloria Barlow to engender and support excellence in musical composition. The endowment's advisory board oversees funding for three major programs: the International Com-petition, the Barlow Commissions and the Barlow Education Grants.
Judges for this year's competition included the Barlow Endowment Advisory Board - Joseph Schwantner, Crawford Gates, Michael Runyan, Libby Larsen and David Sargent - as well as two composers representing the Baltimore Symphony, George Tsontakis of the Aspen Music Festival composition faculty and Steven Stuckey of Cornell University.