The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David (Volosin) Katz, founder and chief judge, is honored to announce the winners, runners-up and honorable mentions of The American Prize in Composition, 2022, larger choral works.
James Granville Eakin III
Categories: E. C. Schirmer Classical , Featured , James Granville Eakin III , Orchestra , School/Concert ChoralDr. James Eakin has joined the faculty of the Centenary College of Louisiana Hurley School of Music as professor of theory and composition.
Hurley School of Music
Eakin has been a composer-in-residence with the Turtle Creek Chorale, Resounding Harmony, and The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. His compositions have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. He has recently scored such films as Cut to the Chase, Sugar, and Visible Scars. His composition #twitterlieder, performed by the Virginia Chorale, is currently in production for
"Is this growing trend a gimmick? Or a glimpse of the future?
Choral music making is all about the sound, not what you see on stage."
In a recent article from Chorus America, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus' performance and premiere of James Eakin's #twitterlieder was highlighted in an examination of choral-theater, a developing trend in choral performances.
...Timothy Seelig, artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC), feels the same way. Along with other performing arts organizations, he says, “we compete with basic things such as television, Internet and Twitter.” In 2015, the ensemble responded to that challenge by creating a show called #twitterlieder, with music by James