Finalist: Neruda Songs , by Peter Lieberson (Associated Music Publishers )
Premiered May 20, 2005 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 2006:
Yehudi Wyner
Premiered February 17, 2005 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Associated Music Publishers, Inc.)
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 2006:
Chen Yi
Premiered October 13, 2005 by the Cleveland Orchestra.
The Jury
The Jury
Ara Guzelimian(chair )
senior director and artistic advisor
Muhal Richard Abrams
pianist and composer
William Bolcom*
composer and Ross Lee Finney Distinguished Professor of Music in Composition
George E. Lewis
Case Professor of American Music
Howard Reich
arts and jazz critic
Winners in Music
Steven Stucky
Premiered March 12, 2004 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. (Theodore Presser Company)
Paul Moravec
Premiered by the Trio Solisti and clarinet soloist David Krakauer on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library, New York City.
John Adams
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002 at Avery Fisher Hall.
Henry Brant
Premiered on December 12, 2001 at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California.
2006 Prize Winners
The Times-Picayune
For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)
Sun Herald
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.