Prize winners on March 28th

Sunday's concert will also feature two prize winning works from c)i's 2009 composition competition. Every two years, c)i reviews works submitted anonymously from around the world, and working with a panel of respected judges, pick the works that excited us, and spoke to the c)i sound. The two works on Sunday's program are Christopher Rogerson's 'Brothers' and Charles Halka's 'Trio.'

Christopher Rogerson is a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies composition with Jennifer Higdon. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Presser Foundation, the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and the National Association for Music Education. 'Brothers' is a musical memorial to Buddhist monks executed by the Burmese army in 2007; it contrasts the bell-like tones of the temple with martial rhythm.

Charles Halka is completing coursework towards a Doctor of Musical Arts at the Shepherd School of Music; this season, his works are being performed by ONIX Ensamble, the Armonas Trio, and the saxophone and harp duo Pictures on Silence. His 'Trio' is hypotyposis of musical memories and interests, ranging across style, but striving for synthesis.

Come here these up and coming composers, Sunday, March 28th at 8 pm.