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 (2025-2029) and Recent Awards Given.

Compositions

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

2026 Doug Davis: Dust Swirls, Then Speaks for Orchestra (2222/4331/Timp2/Hrp/Str) - $7,500 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

2029 George Crumb: Vox Balaenae  (Voice of the Whale) for 'Electric' (Amplified) Flute, Cello, and Piano (for his 100th Birthday) - $8,500 Minimum

Recent Awards Given

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

  • First Prize: Ohio University Jazz Ensemble: Matt James, director
    • Outstanding Performances: Dom O’Korn, drums and Connor Wertman, alto sax
  • Second Prize: Cal Poly Humboldt Jazz Orchestra: Dan Aldag, director
    • Outstanding Performance: John Gerving, piano
  • Honorable Mentions (multiple):
    1. New Mexico State Jazz Ensemble: Jacob Dalager, director
      • Outstanding Performance: Steven Rokowski, trumpet
    2. Bakersfield College Jazz Ensemble: Kris Tiner, director
      • Outstanding Performance: Aidan Scully, drums

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)

2023/2024: Discretionary Composer Awards (For Prize, Commission, or Honorarium) - $7,000

  • 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:
    Alexey Gorokholinsky in support of his next composition.
  • Claire McCahan (Award winner for Doug Davis: Family Portraits) given to composer:
    Annika Socolofskyin in support of her composition.

2024: Commission to Johanny Navarro for a Choral Composition ($4,000)

2023/2024: Discretionary Performance or Project Awards ($8,500)

  • 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
  • Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra: Stilian Kirov, Music Director; performances of Kyle Shaw: Verdant and Jonathan Cziner: Solaris, Stella Chen, violin soloist
  • Jaime Sevilla: Blade Rider movie script, musical score, recording, and trailer production. Mayyor, Caley Mayhall, Anna Santiago, and Jehdiah Woodrow, singers
  • Lynn Eustis, soprano and Kevin Jones, piano for a performance of Doug Davis: Family Portraits; Tsai Performance Center, Boston University

Previous and Additional Awards

Previous award winners

Performance Submission Entry Form