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B-W and ANALOG Arts present the Iron Composer Competition

Five composers…one clue...one secret ingredient...six hours to compose…five performances…ONE Iron Composer. This is the Iron Composer competition at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music Friday October 2.

Conceived by ANALOG Arts and co-sponsored by Baldwin-Wallace, the culminating concert begins at 8 p.m. at Kulas Musical Arts Building, 96 Front St., Berea. It is free and open to the public. The emcee for the concert is Mark Satola, host of  WCLV radio’s “Not the Dead White Male Composers’ Hour.” WCLV will broadcast the event live.

On the morning of the competition, five composers will be given a surprise instrumentation and a secret musical ingredient.  In six hours, they must compose a work, which will be rehearsed and performed in the public concert. Following the performance of the works, a panel of judges will select the winner. The top three finishers receive cash prizes ranging from $100 to $500.

The competing composers were selected by ANALOG Arts from a larger group of applicants. This year’s finalists are: Andrew Jamieson, a senior composition major at the Northwestern University School of Music; Travis Jeffords, who finished his M.M. at the University of Texas in the spring of 2009; Sunny Knable, an award-winning composer of contemporary concert music who received Bachelor of Music degrees in composition, piano performance and jazz studies from California State University Sacramento in 2004; Wei-Chieh Lin, winner of the 2008 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award, who holds both bachelor and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he is currently completing his doctorate; John Rot, a second-year composition major at Oberlin.  (Their complete biographical information is available at www.ironcomposer.org (select “finalists”).

ANALOG Arts is a collective dedicated to presenting music grounded in the classics but with a futurist sensibility.  It is composed of 30 artists in five different states and three countries.  The group stages concert experiences throughout the world.