Derrick Wang has been named a winner in the 58th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, which “recognize superior creative talent” in music composition.
Eleven (11) winners were chosen from throughout the Western Hemisphere. All works were judged under pseudonyms.
Derrick Wang’s BMI award-winning work is the one-act opera ISH.
Awards Chair Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson presented the awards at a reception held on May 14, 2010 at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in New York City.
58th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced [BMI Foundation]
58th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced [BMI]
Watch the New York premiere of ISH (NOTE: Possibly NSFW; contains strong language):
ISH
an opera in ten minutes
words and music by Derrick Wang
New York Premiere / Ars Nova Theater / New York, NY / November 2008
Based on a scene by Edwin Davisson
Directed by Becca Wolff
Video by One Glass Video
CAST
B: Jean-Paul Björlin, tenor
C: Jefferson Behan, tenor
D: Samuel Perwin, baritone
E: Bo Meng, bass-baritone
Derrick Wang, keyboard
