Finalist: 7 Etudes for Solo Piano , by Don Byron (nottuskegeelike music/BMI )
A deft set of studies that display rhythmic inventiveness and irresistible energy, charm and wit.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 2009:
Steve Reich
A major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy into a large-scale musical event, built with masterful control and consistently intriguing to the ear.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 2009:
Harold Meltzer
A sonic portrait of a cemetery in northern Italy painted with the touch of a watercolorist and marked by an episodic structure and vivid playfulness that offer a graceful, sensual and contemplative experience.
The Jury
The Jury
John Schaefer(chair )
host, Soundcheck
Dwight Andrews
composer and associate professor, music theory and jazz studies
Justin Davidson*
music critic
Anthony Davis
composer
David Lang*
composer and co-founder
Winners in Music
David Lang
Co-commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation and The Perth Theater and Concert Hall, and premiered October 25, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City (G. Schirmer, Inc.).
Ornette Coleman
Recording released September 12, 2006.
Yehudi Wyner
Premiered February 17, 2005 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Associated Music Publishers, Inc.)
Steven Stucky
Premiered March 12, 2004 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. (Theodore Presser Company)
2009 Prize Winners
Patrick Farrell
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
W.S. Merwin
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory.
Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon
For the exposure of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip amid lax enforcement of regulations, leading to changes in policy and improved safety conditions.
Staff
For its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on its Web site and then developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports.