BRIAN FENNELLY, composer; Yale M. Music 1965, Ph. D. 1968; Professor of Music Emeritus, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, three NEA Composer Fellowships, three Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund grants, two Koussevitsky Foundation Commissions, a Fromm Commission, and a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His music has been awarded prizes in the Goffredo Petrassi Orchestral Competition, Louisville Orchestra Competition (First Prize 1986), Premio Citta di Trieste, Shreveport Symphony Competition (First Prize 1981), International Trumpet Guild Competition (First Prize 1990), and others. He has been awarded composer residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Camargo Foundation, and Copland House. Recordings include full CDs on CRI, Albany, and New World Records, with performances by Polish Chamber Orchestra, Audubon Quartet, Dorian Woodwind Quintet, Louisville Orchestra, and others. Past president and past vice-president League-ISCM, past vice-president and past treasurer American Composers Alliance. Founded Washington Square Contemporary Music Society in 1976.
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LOUIS KARCHIN, composer; Eastman B. Mus. 1973, Harvard A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1978; Professor of Music, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University since 1979. Honors include two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, a Fromm Commission, two NEA Composer Fellowships, and two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Prizes include the Heckscher Foundation Prize, New Music Consort Competition (first prize), the Koussevitsky Tanglewood Award, and the Joseph H. Bearns Prize. Karchin's works have been performed by the Louisville Orchestra, the Portland (Me.) Symphony, the Group for Contemporary Music, Parnassus, Talujon, and the Da Capo Chamber Players, among others. Recordings on are CRI and New World Records; his music is published by C. F. Peters Corporation. Co- founder and co-conductor of League-ISCM Chamber Players, past Chairman of League-ISCM, and co-director of WSCMS since 1980.
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