Eligibility: Any composer, regardless of age or nationality is eligible. Previous winners, faculty, and currently-enrolled students at the University of Illinois are ineligible for the competition.

Awards: First Prize cash award of $1000 and second prize cash award of $500 plus performances by the Illinois Modern Ensemble in the fall of 2017 on the 21st Annual Martirano Award Concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois.… << READ MORE >>

The two curators of the project, Michael Hannan and Diana Blom, are composers but also keyboard players.  Michael plays the piano, organ and harpsichord and has recently become a toy piano player; Diana plays piano, harpsichord and toy piano.… << READ MORE >>

Please come be noisy and inappropriate outside the premiere of Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle to protest them never having performed Dad’s opera “The Gilt-Edge Kid” which they commissioned from him in 1969.… << READ MORE >>