NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - December 15, 2016) - The ASCAP Foundation last night honored acclaimed choral music composer Morten Lauridsen and groundbreaking jazz composer and bandleader Maria Schneider with The ASCAP Foundation Life in Music Award. The accolades were presented at The 2016 ASCAP Foundation Honors at the Appel Room and Ertegun Atrium in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City.
The ASCAP Foundation Life in Music Award is presented by The ASCAP Foundation to an ASCAP writer member for his or her outstanding accomplishments as a composer, songwriter, performer, arranger or vocalist in any genre. The 21st annual event also honored and featured performances from scholarship and award recipients in an array of music genres including classical, jazz, musical theater, pop, country and rhythm & soul, all of whom benefit from programs of The ASCAP Foundation.
Tony and Emmy-nominated songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul received the Harold Adamson Lyric Award. The team opened the show with "Waving Through a Window" from their award-winning Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen (Outer Critics Circle Award, Obie Award, Helen Hayes Award, Drama Desk Award). Pasek & Paul also have original material featured in recent Hollywood hits La La Land and The Trolls.
The Maria Schneider Duo celebrated Schneider's honor with a performance of her composition "Walking By Flashlight." Other outstanding performances by this year's honorees included "Good Go Bad," from Brad Blackburn, Leon Brettler Award winner; "Heart Like a Phoenix," from Kate Copeland, Robert Allen Award winner; "Breaking Point," from Roxy Coss, Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award winner; "New York City Lights," from Charles Duke, "Reach Out and Touch" Award winner in honor of Nick Ashford; "Bad Night in Heaven" from Kison, Desmond Child Anthem Award winner; and "Point G" from Ali Can Puskulcu, Morton Gould Young Composer Award winner.
The show closed with the performance of an excerpt of Morten Lauridsen's "Sure On This Shining Night" by the Schola Cantorum on Hudson Vocal Ensemble. A complete list of 2016 ASCAP Foundation Scholarship and Award recipients follows:
THE ASCAP FOUNDATION 2016 HONOREES
LIFE IN MUSIC AWARD - MORTEN LAURIDSEN
LIFE IN MUSIC AWARD - MARIA SCHNEIDER
Harold Adamson Lyric Awards
Country - Lonnie Lee Fowler
Musical Theatre - Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
R&S - Niré Alldai, Aaron 'ys' Dales,
Raleigh Dunn (of TheVAMP), Maya Milan, Frankie P,
Cesar "Pearl Gates" Perez, Jr. & Rent Money
Pop - Justin Hariz & Ben Samama [Oktavian]
Robert Allen Award
Kate Copeland
Cheín Garcia Alonso Scholarship
Jorddy Romero
Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards
Emily Bear, David Bernot, Paul Bloom, Esteban Castro, Mario Castro, Michael Conrad, Roxy Coss, Natalie Dietz, Lukas Gabric, Joshua Green, Dave Hassell, Taylor Herron, Gene Knific, Jodie Landau, Remy Le Boeuf, Roos Plaatsman, Jonathan Saraga, Jeremy Siskind & Christopher Zuar
Honorable Mentions - Andrew D. Herring,
Andrew Karboski, Josh Shpak, Alexander Weitz
& Matthew Whitaker
Harold Arlen Film & TV Award
Jules Pegram
Harold Arlen Musical Theatre Award
Andrea Daly
Louis Armstrong Scholarships
at Queens College
Jacques Boudreau
at the University of New Orleans
Jack Vogt
"Reach Out and Touch" Award
in honor of Nick Ashford
Charles Duke
Irving Berlin Summer Camp Scholarship
Arté Warren
Leonard Bernstein Award
Saevar Rodine
Freddy Bienstock Scholarship & Internship
Alexandra Tamashunas
Boosey & Hawkes Young Composer Award
honoring Aaron Copland
Lila Meretzky
Leon Brettler Award
Brad Blackburn
Irving Burgie Scholarship
Shania Wilcox
Irving Caesar Scholarships
Leah Brekke, Marcandrew Martinez
Sammy Cahn Award
Caylee Anna Hammack
Desmond Child Anthem Award
Kison
Eunice & Hal David Merit Award
Caleb Collins
Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship
Willie Beaton II
Matthew Wong
Jamie deRoy & friends Award
Shelly Markham
DreamWorks Animation
Musical Theatre Scholarship
in honor of Stephen Schwartz
Mina Bloom, Rachel Gilbert, Tristan Mclntyre,
Dylan Schifrin, Bailey Share-Aizic & Juan Solis
Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell
City College Scholarship
honoring George & Ira Gershwin
Jasmin Klinger
Max Dreyfus Scholarship
Rachel Dean
Fellowship for Composition at
The Aspen Musical Festival & School
Andrew Hsu
Ira Gershwin Scholarship
Allie Quan
Jay Gorney Award
Scott Evan Davis
Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
Natalie Dietterich - Leo Kaplan Award
Paris Lavidis - Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship
Daniel Allas, Ermir Bejo, Trevor Bumgarner, Thérèse-Marie Chaix, Thomas Dougherty, Jess Larsen, Sky Macklay, David Mettens, Ali Can Puskulcu, Marco-Adrián Ramos, Jake Runestad, Barry Sharp & Alyssa Weinberg
Honorable Mentions - Frazar P. Henry,
Joel Rust, Peter Shin & Phil Taylor
Harold Heiberg Vocal/Accompanying
Scholarships
Rebecca Hansen, Levi Hernandez
Jerry Herman Broadway Legacy Prize
Anthony Hurd, Rhetta Kampel,
Brian Ross Klimowski, Morgan Kruger
Fred Ho Award
Marie Incontrera
Bart Howard Scholarship
at Belmont University
Christine Mason Schmitt
at Berklee College of Music
Julia Battistin, Jeffrey Gaiser
BMG Scholarship
in honor of Quincy Jones
Jillian Young
Steve Kaplan TV & Film Studies Award
Marco ValerIo Antonini
Michelle & Dean Kay Award
Nicolas Repetto
Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship
Emma Wernig
Frederick Loewe Scholarship
Benji Goldsmith
Barbara & John LoFrumento Award
Music Conservatory of Westchester
Music Therapy Institute
Eastchester School District
Henry Mancini Music Fellowship
Michael Dean Parsons
Johnny Mandel Prize
Christopher Zuar
Vic Mizzy Scholarship
Erik DeLong
Rudolf Nissim Prize
Vincent Calianno
Cole Porter Award
Brett Ryback
Louis Prima Award
Brian Richburg, Jr.
Joe Raposo Children's Music Award
Dan Bern
Joan & Irwin Robinson Scholarship
Anthony Kott
Betty Rose Scholarship
Drew Mikuska
David Rose Award
Dan Martinez
Jimmy Van Heusen Award
Maxwell Karmazyn
Mariana & Paul Williams
Sunlight of the Spirit Award
Nick Patyk
Lucille & Jack Yellen Award
Shaina Taub
About The ASCAP Foundation
Founded in 1975, The ASCAP Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education, talent development and humanitarian programs. Included in these are songwriting workshops, grants, scholarships, awards, recognition and community outreach programs. The ASCAP Foundation is supported by contributions from ASCAP members and from music lovers throughout the United States. Learn more and stay in touch at www.ascapfoundation.org, on Twitter @ascapfoundation, and on Facebook.