Dale Warland Singers has announced New York composer Martha Sullivan as winner of the 2003 Choral Ventures program. Selected from 149 applicants in 36 states, Sullivan was one of four finalists commissioned to write a 5-7 minute choral work for the Choral Ventures Reading Session. She was awarded a $6500 commission to write a 1015 minute work to be premiered during the Dale Warland Singers 2003-2004 season. The winning entry, Nocturne I, is from Edmund Spencer¹s Epithalamion, a poem he composed for the occasion of his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle in 1594. Sullivan¹s works have been commissioned by such groups as the Dale Warland Singers, the Gregg Smith Singers, Chicago A Cappella, various college and church choirs in the northeast, in addition to organ recitalist Stephen Tharp. For further information:
July 2, 2003
