The Roger Wagner International Choral-Composition Contest and the Roger Wagner Contemporary Choral Series are made possible through a generous grant from The Wenger Foundation.
Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies
Winning Compositions, Honorable Mentions
1989 Winner:
Joseph Ott
Lux Aeterna
Performed in Costa Rica by CSULA, 1989
1990 Winner:
Sean MacLean
Pange Lingua
Performed by CSULA, 1991 Published by Thomas House
1990 Honorable Mention:
Marshall Bialosky
The Heart in the Jar
David A. Yeagley
Jahan-Dideh
Julia Simon
Illuminations for the Canonical Hours
Ann Kearns
Sorrow's Springs: Three Hopkins Poems
Published by Thomas House Performed by CSULA, 1991
Latin Tryptych
1991 Winner: None Awarded
1991 Honorable Mentions:
Don Robinson
Magnificat
Roger C. Vogel
Cats and Bats and Things with Wings
Performed by CSULA, 1992
Published by Thomas House
1992 Winner:
William Averitt
Afro-American Fragments
Published by EC Schirmer
Performed by CSULA under Direction of William Averitt, 1993
1992 Honorable Mentions:
Robert Newell
Acrostic
Gerald M. Shapiro
Prayer for the Great Family
Performed by CSULA, 1993; Composer in attendance
1993 Winner:
Carol Barnett
Cinco Poemas de Becquer
Published/Licensed by Thomas House, 1994
1993 Honorable Mentions:
Karen P. Thomas
Three Medieval Lyrics
Eugenio Manuel Rodrigues
Matutinal
Performed by CSULB, 1994
1994 Winner:
Hubert Bird
Echoes
Performed by UCLA, 1994
Published by Lawson-Gould, 1995
1994 Honorable Mentions:
Anne LeBaron
Story of My Angel
Sean MacLean
Evening Collect
Published by Thomas House, 1995
1995 Winner:
William Albright
Dona Nobis Pacem
1995 Honorable Mentions:
Francesco Accolla
Psalm 33
Carol Barnett
Valediction for Men's Chorus
Derek Bermel
West African Folk Songs
Andrew McBirnie
Rio
Augusta Read Thomas
Midsummer Blaze for Men's chorus
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn
Les Hommes Vides
1996 Winner
Jerrell Lambert
Since on a Quiet Night
1996 Honorable Mention
Andrew Rindfleisch
Lady Evergreen Song
1997 Winner
Bryan Johanson
O Magnum Mysterium
Published by Thomas House
1997 Honorable Mention
Janet Maguire
Per Aqua
Eric Stokes
Wondrous World
1998 Winner
Wayland Rogers
What Sweeter Music Can We Bring
Published by Thomas House
1999 Winner
N. Lincoln Hanks
Tota Pulchra (1998)
2000 Winner
Scott Robinson
The Stolen Child
2000 Honorable Mentions
Dénes Legdnÿ
Hymn to St. Martin
Scott Robbins
Sliver Moon
2001 Winner
Stefan Weisman
Light, light, light. light. light
2002 No Award
2003 Winner for Treble Voices
Jonathan Bailey
Holland Visit to St. Elizabeth (SSA unaccompanied w/ soprano solo)
2003 Honorable Mentions for Treble Voices
Richard (Dick) Thompson
Spinning Jenny (SA w/ piano)
Published by Gentry
Robert Greenlee
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (SSA unaccompanied)
Published by Gentry
2003 Winner for SATB
Graham Gordon Ramsay
Three Psalms, I. Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos (SATB w/ violin)
Published by Gentry
2003 Honorable Mention for SATB
Doug McConnell
Look to This Day (SATB unaccompanied)
Published by Gentry
2004 No Winner
2005 Winner for Treble Voices
Guy Forbes
Ave Maria (SSAA Unaccompanied)
2006-2007 Winner for SATB Voices
Philip Spencer Tune Thy Music To Thy Heart (w/ piano)
2006-2007 Winner for SSAA Voices
Karen P. Thomas
Lux Lucis (Unaccompanied on text by Hildegard von Bingen)
2006-2007 Honorable Mentions for SATB Voices
Meredith M. Brammeier
Hymn for the Nativity (Unaccompanied)
Nicholas Mroczek
The Night has a Thousand Eyes (Unaccompanied)
2008 Winner for SATB Voices
Jess Langston Turner
All This Night (Piano)
2008 Winner for SSAA Voices
Jenni Brandon
Vive la Liberté (Two-Part Treble Chorus, flute, percussion and piano)
2008 Honorable Mention
Kentaro Sato
Ave Maria (Unaccompanied)