Dan Locklair has been awarded the 2025 American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music in the Professional Composers Category for his Requiem for SATB chorus (divisi), soloists (SATB), organ, and string orchestra. The American Prize in Composition recognizes and rewards composers in America of works for orchestra, chorus, concert band, chamber ensemble, theater, opera, dance, or film that have been publicly performed or read and recorded.
The nine-movement, 45-minute Requiem set in English uses elements of the Latin Requiem Mass, along with non-traditional solo movements featuring additional Biblical texts. It is published by Subito Music.
For further information: locklair.com.
