The ASCAP Foundation, the charitable organization that is part of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, has announced the winners of the 2024 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, which encourage talented young creators of concert music ranging in age from 14 to 29. The 2024 Morton Gould Young Composer Award recipients are listed below with their current residence and place of origin; recipients under the age of 18 are listed by state of residence: Alistair Coleman of Philadelphia, PA (Washington, DC); Michael Gancz of Rockville, MD (Haifa, Israel); Bobby Ge of Princeton, NJ (Atlanta, GA); Zihan Geng of NY; Luke Haaksma of New Haven, CT (Asheville, NC); Benjamin Collin Hobschaidt of FL; Hannah Ishizaki of Princeton, NJ (Pittsburgh, PA); Caleb Laurent of TX; Ryan Lindveit of Knoxville, TN (Lake Jackson, TX); Paul Novak of Chicago, IL (Reno, NV); Alex Robertson of NY; Kian Ravaei of Bloomington, IN (Los Angeles, CA); Sofía Rocha of Providence, RI (Boulder, CO); Sami Seif of New York, NY (Keserwan, Lebanon); Samuel Siskind of CA; and Trevor Zavac of Nobelsville, IN. The 2024 composers/judges were Anahita Abbasi, Clarice Assad, Shih-Hui Chen, Avner Dorman, Sean Friar, Derrick Skye, Matthew Tommasini, and Wang Lu. Learn more at ascapfoundation.org.
