J.P. Redmond (student of Matt Van Brink) won the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. Each year The ASCAP Foundation holds a national competition for gifted Young Concert Music Composers up to thirty years of age. This competition was named in honor of the late Morton Gould, who was a gifted composer prodigy, an esteemed Pulitzer Prize wining composer and served as President of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishes).
J.P. Redmond, a Conservatory piano and composition student was among the 2015 winners. This year there were over 600 entries who went through ASCAP's prestigious, tough, juried national competition. Congratulations to J.P. and the wonderful Conservatory faculty who have contributed so much to the preparation and training of this talented young composer.