The ASCAP Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, has announced the winners of the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, which encourage talented young creators of concert music ranging in age from 13 to 30. Previous award recipients include Grammy-winning composer Emily Bear and Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Michael Abels, Jennifer Higdon, David Lang, Melinda Wagner, and Julia Wolfe. The 2025 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: Corey Chang of Bloomington, IN (Woodbridge, CT); Kai Kubota-Enright of Los Angeles, CA, (British Columbia, Canada); GianCarlo Lay of Tempe, AZ (Dallas, TX); Grace Ann Lee of Ann Arbor, MI,(Seoul, South Korea); Emily Liushen of New York, NY, (Louisville, KY); Quinn Mason of Dallas TX; Paul Novak of Chicago, IL (Reno, NV); Nathaniel Parks of Baltimore, MD, (Greensboro, NC); Jaebong Rho of New Haven, CT, (Busan, South Korea); Cyrano Rosentrater of PA; Alex Tedrow of Washington, DC (Shoals, IN); Isaac Thomas of FL; Max Vinetz of Brooklyn, NY, (San Diego, CA); Brady Wolff of Bloomington, IN (Lee’s Summit, MO); Yiqi Xue of New York, NY (Hangzhou, China); and Jihwan Yoon of Woodside, NY (Seoul, South Korea). Learn more at https://www.ascapfoundation.org.
