College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

• April 14, 2008

  Edmondson wins Benward Theory-Composition Honorarium

• Iowa State University music student Jennifer Edmondson of Ames has received the 2008 Bruce Benward Theory-Composition Student Honorarium. The award was presented by from the Music Analysis Creative Research Organization, headquartered in Wisconsin.

  The award, which comes with a $1,000 honorarium that can be used for her music education, recognizes her abilities in composition and music theory. Edmondson is a music major with emphases in piano performance and music composition.

  Edmondson has received a number of composition awards including the 2006 Iowa Composers Forum’s Marilynn Etzel College Scholarship Competition. The piece submitted to the competition, Three Preludes for solo piano, was selected for performance at the Iowa Composers Forum’s 20th Anniversary Festival of New Music in November 2007.

  She also captured two recent concerto competitions, which qualified her to perform with the Des Moines Symphony and the Fort Dodge Area Symphony.

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