About Us
TWISTED SPRUCE PRIZES
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Congratulations to the 2023 Twisted Spruce collaborators! We are thrilled to announce prizewinners in this year's competition. Thank you to everyone who participated, thank you to the judges Aaron Travers, Azariah Felton, Sergei Mathakin, Natalie Dietterich, and Stephen Mattingly. Thank you also to our sponsors Wilson Burnham and Frameworks Records!
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Publication Prize (if they want to publish with Azahar Press)
Cooper Wood, Angela Ortiz, David Hernandez, Liam Kuhn, Ivan Parga-Renteria, Daixuan Ai
Publication with revisions (if they want to publish with Azahar Press)
Jacob Elkin, Bracha Bdil, Yuseok Seol, Holden Shea, Fraser Andras, Joel Hobbs, Thatcher Harrison, Noel Gutierrez
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Collaborative Prize Tanya Landau and Sara d’Ippolito-Reichert
View their work here: https://twistedspruce23.weebly.com/
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Composition Prize
First place is Angela Ortiz
Second place is Cooper Wood
Third place is Liam Kuhn
Tied in fourth place is Thatcher Harrison and Noel Gutierrez
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Guitar Prize
First place is Hao Yang
Second place is David Manzanares
Third place is Adrian Montero Moya
Tied in fourth place is Audrey Oden and Andres Guerra
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​GUITAR PRIZES
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$1000 cash prize
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A handmade concert guitar by Wilson Burnham worth $8000.00
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An EP release with Frameworks Records
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Published performance edition (contingencies apply)
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Feature in subsequent festival
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Concert with the BCGS
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COMPOSITION PRIZES
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$1000 commission
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Performance by the virtual ensemble and video set to animation
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Published score
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Feature in subsequent festival
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Potential single or EP release with Frameworks Records
COLLABORATIVE TEAM PRIZES
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$200.00 (split between collaborative team)
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Published score
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Feature in subsequent festival
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