Twin Cities AGO Composition Competition

The Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists announces results of its 2018 composition competition. Eleven works were submitted to the competition committee, each work for solo pipe organ, consisting of a theme and variations of three to five minutes in length. In the unanimous opinion of the judges, no composition achieved first prize. Winning $750 each, second-place is awarded to Jeff Enns of Elmira, Ontario, for Variations on D’où Vienstu, Bergère? and to Tyler Jameson Pimm of Madison, Wisconsin, for Christ lag in Todesbanden: Chorale with Variations. Judges were Philip Brunelle, Aaron David Miller, and Lawrence Lawyer.

Enns is music director for St. James Lutheran Church, Elmira, Ontario, and teaches violin and viola at the Beckett School in Waterloo, Ontario. His publishers include MorningStar, Cypress Alliance, Renforth, and Kelman Hall. Pimm serves as director of music at the parishes of St. Peter, Ashton, Wisconsin, and St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville, Wisconsin. He holds a Master of Music in composition from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.

Requirements for the 2019 composition competition will be announced at: www.tcago.org.