{"id":73751,"date":"2022-01-11T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=73751"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:13:17","slug":"scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-names-vancouverite-2021-choral-composition-competition-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/01\/11\/scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-names-vancouverite-2021-choral-composition-competition-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Names Vancouverite 2021 Choral Composition Competition Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73752\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/TMC-Choral_Composition_2021-Benjamin_Sigerson.jpg\" alt=\"TMC-Choral_Composition_2021-Benjamin_Sigerson\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has announced the winner of its 2021 Choral Composition Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjaminsigerson.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Sigerson<\/a> for his winning composition <strong><em>Of Rest<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 a setting of text by Vancouver poet j. h. Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenjamin\u2019s piece demonstrates a clear understanding of the voice and its expressive possibilities,\u201d said Artistic Director Jean-S\u00e9bastien Vall\u00e9e. \u201cBenjamin shows great potential as an artist and I look forward to hearing choirs from all across the country, and beyond, perform his music!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s competition, composers were directed to write a cappella or piano-accompanied pieces for SATB and\/or SSAATTBB. The TMC also encouraged composers to set a poem by a poet from an underrepresented community.<\/p>\n<p>The award includes the <strong>Debbie Fleming Prize in Choral Composition<\/strong> of $1,000 and a <strong>premiere of the winning piece<\/strong> by the TMC at its Conductors\u2019 Symposium concert on June 28, 2022.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>More about the winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Benjamin Sigerson<\/strong> is a composer and jazz pianist from Vancouver, B.C.<\/li>\n<li>Currently studying composition at <strong>McGill University<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Has won awards for his compositions, including 3rd prize in the choral category in the 2021 edition of <strong>SOCAN Awards<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BTW<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If It feels like you\u2019re getting an endless stream of good news from the TMC lately, it\u2019s because you are. Despite the new Omicron closures, the TMC is doing better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>This past year included a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/05\/31\/the-scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-finds-its-new-artistic-director-finally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artistic director<\/a>, a fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/09\/16\/scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-wants-fresh-start-new-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">season<\/a>, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/08\/30\/scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-names-new-collaborative-pianist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborative pianist<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/12\/14\/scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-names-five-emerging-conductors-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choral Conductors\u2019 Symposium.<\/a> This latest 2021 Choral Competition Laureate announcement feels like a \u201cbut, wait there\u2019s more&#8221; moment.\u00a0 In this case, it\u2019s the real deal, folks \u2014 step right up.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has announced the winner of its 2021 Choral Composition Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":73752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,11,17,18,39],"tags":[39922,30643,16066],"yst_prominent_words":[23565,7292,9008,11623,7672,6731,7781,15877,32133,6985,6616,17178,10387,9938,37302],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/TMC-Choral_Composition_2021-Benjamin_Sigerson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jbx","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73758,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73751\/revisions\/73758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73751"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=73751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}