Finalist: Roberto Sierra
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 2008:
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.).
Music
The Jury
The Jury
Ingrid Monson(Chair )
Quincy Jones professor of African-American Music and department chair, music department
Dwight Andrews
composer and associate professor, music theory and jazz studies
Steven Blier
faculty member, Juilliard; and artistic director and co-founder
Tim Page*
music critic
Steven Stucky*
composer and Given Foundation Professor of Composition
Winners in Music
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)
Paul Moravec
Premiered by the Trio Solisti and clarinet soloist David Krakauer on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library, New York City.
2008 Prize Winners
The Washington Post
in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.
David Umhoefer
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
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.).
Staff
For its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online.