Frances Richard, ASCAP Vice President and Director of Concert Music and Linn Maxwell, President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation (LLF) announced the winners of the second ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition. The competition, named for legendary soprano Lotte Lehmann, was established to encourage and recognize gifted young composers who write for voice.
Commenting on the competition, Frances Richard said: “Encouraging gifted young composers to set inspiring texts for voice is in the great tradition of ASCAP, and central to the mission of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation. The winning composers were selected via a rigorous juried national competition open to composers under the age of thirty . We thank our valiant judges, and congratulate the winners.”
View the winners here: http://www.ascap.com/press/2007/111607_lotte_lehmann.aspx