The Columbia Orchestra is pleased to announce that David Heuser has won its 2007 American Composer Competition for his orchestral work "A Screaming Comes Across the Sky." The finalists also included the following works:
- Blood Rite by Randolph Partain
- Concerto for Orchestra by David Sartor
- Amelia by Arthur Gottschalk
- A Perfect Rest by Laurence Bitensky
- Deus Ex Machina by Mark Lortz
- The Colors of Dream by Anthony Iannaccone
- Capriccio by Kevin Walczyk
- Concerto for Orchestra by Takuma Itoh
- Variations and Fugue by Lee Actor
We want to thank everyone who submitted a score to the competition this year. It was an honor to study your music. We regret that the Columbia Orchestra has the resources to perform only one of the submitted works. The general level of the submissions was so high this year that the selection of a single work was a particularly difficult process. Good luck to all of you in your music-making.
