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PAN PIPES • FALL 2015 • sai-national.org 10 T U Y Z MUSIC NOTES YoungWoo Yoo is the winner of the Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter 2015 Margaret Blackburn Biennial Composition Competition. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she began her classical composition studies at the age of fieen. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Ewha Womans University and her Master's Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with J. Mark Stambaugh. She was also chosen to participate in master classes with SAI National Arts Associate Samuel Adler and Matthias Pintscher. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and studies with Sever Tipei. She has been the recipient of numerous honors, prizes, and awards. Among them are first prize in 2006 Val Tidone International Music Competition in Italy, the Manhattan Prize (Manhattan School of Music) in 2013, a finalist in the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, International Alliance for Women in Music's (IAWM) 33 rd Search for New Music by Women Composers Libby Larsen Prize in 2014, and the top prize for the 2015 College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Call for Student Scores. Her piece for full orchestra, Honbul, was chosen by ABLAZE Records to be included in their album, Orchestral Masters, Vol. 2. Her winning composition is a chamber work, Trauma, for flute (doubling with alto flute), B-flat clarinet, trombone, two percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello. e award is $1,000. e competition is a project of the SAI Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter in honor and memory of Margaret Blackburn, member and composer of the SAI Chorale. It is open to female composers enrolled in an accredited university or college undergraduate or graduate degree program. e judge for the competition was SAI Member Laureate Dr. Marilyn Ta omas, composer and Professor of Music, at the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an active composer with works for orchestra, choir, piano, voice, brass band, and chamber ensembles. She has won prizes from the National Federation of Music and the National Harvey Gaul Composition Competition, and has received nine special awards in composition from ASCAP, with commissions from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Mellon University, the American Music Center, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the River City Brass Band, and the Strings Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO. Dr. omas was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Pittsburgh, and the only woman to serve as President of the Pittsburgh Alliance of Composers. Her computer music research and development of music theory soware is internationally known. As a teacher, her innovative teaching methods have been cited by Associated Press and honored by the university with its prestigious Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award. Since joining the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1981, Dr. omas has served as Head of the School of Music, 1988-1996, Director of Graduate Studies, 1997-2000, Executive Director of the River City Brass Band, 2000-2003, and Interim Head of the School of Music, 2006-2007. She was President of the Executive Board of the Andrew Carnegie Society at Carnegie Mellon University and served on the University's Board of Trustees from 2008-2010. In addition to her work as a composer, she has published over 20 articles and papers on composition, technology, computer music, music education and women in music. She has also authored two books, several collections of essays, poetry, and travel journals. Leadership in the Arts: An Inside View was published by AuthorHouse in Bloomington, IN. In 2004, omas was granted the Stolarevsky Lifetime Achievement Award by the McKeesport Symphony Society for distinguished service in the arts, and for excellence in and contributions to the cultural life of our communities. — J. Barbara McKelway, Margaret Blackburn Committee Chair Yoo Wins Pittsburgh's 2015 Blackburn Competition Kyle Froman Trauma, by composer YoungWooYoo, was the winning composition. FOR MORE INFORMATION on the competition, visit sai-pittsburgh-alumni.weebly.com/ blackburn-composition-competition. html

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