Press Release - 2006 NSBA/MENC Student Electronic Music Composition Talent Search Winners Announced
2006 NSBA/MENC Student Electronic Music Composition Talent Search Winners Announced
RESTON, VA (May 25, 2006) -- Sponsored by MENC: The National Association for Music Education and the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the Electronic Music Composition Talent Search recognizes outstanding compositions and is held to help influence school administrators to include or improve music technology in their schools™ curriculum.
The high school winner, Alex Davis from Severna Park High School in Severna Park, Maryland, won with his composition Broken Dreams. Paris Deesing from Valley Preparatory School in Redlands, California was the middle school winner with her composition Cirque du Chats, and Andrew Tufano, from Horizon Elementary School in Sterling, Virginia, was the elementary school winner with his composition, Beats All.
Entries were judged based on their aesthetic quality, effective use of electronic media, and the power of the composition and its presentation in communicating to school board members, administrators, and others, the excitement and effectiveness of electronic music composition in the school curriculum.
The students will be honored at the NSBA's 2006 T+L Conference, November 8-10, 2006, in Dallas, Texas (www.nsba.org/t+l).
Prizes for students, their teachers, and their schools were provided courtesy of Sibelius Inc., Carl Fischer Music, and MENC.
For more information, call 1-800-336-3768, or visit www.menc.org.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the world™s largest arts education organization, is the only association that addresses all aspects of music education. More than 120,000 members represent all levels of teaching from preschool to graduate school. Since 1907, MENC has worked to ensure that every student has access to a well-balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality program of music instruction taught by qualified teachers. MENC™s activities and resources have been largely responsible for the establishment of music education as a profession, for the promotion and guidance of music study as an integral part of the school curriculum, and for the development of the National Standards for Arts Education.
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