THE JACK STONE AWARD FOR NEW MUSIC

2026 Jack Stone Award Winners announced!

This year’s Jack Stone Award-winning piece is "Life's Rite" by Isaac Facio of Mesa Community College.

The runners-up are:

"Flakes of Hope" by Michael Crumpton of College of Central Florida

"This Garden of Reverie" by Tylor M. Watkins of Grand Rapids Community College

We look forward to hearing them performed by Adelante Winds in the Palmetto Center for the Arts at Northwest Vista College on March 24th at 7 pm! The recipient will receive $200, the first runner up will receive $100, and the second runner up will also receive $100.

Past winners and runners-up have included:

Mihye Kim * Edo Ryan * Corbin Hines * Kenji Oh * Connor Helms * Kenneth Subrin * Laura Day * Nathaniel Moore * Thomas Mullins * Sano Sanchez * Nicolas Vaquera * Clifford Allen * Jeremiah Sweeney * Noelle Pinsonnault * Chris Dahlman * Peter Fitzgerald * Eunho Kim * Chance Slater * Sam Rainey * John Carroll * Rebekah Novinger * Josef Daniel Kilhoffer * Melissa Wang * Connor Wier * Mikael Baisch * Samina Yaghouti * Tim Naples * Kurtis Roush * Kailey Martinelli * Tristan Scott * Zander Furrow * William Stephen Codd * Harley Leon Glenn * Michael Thomas Crumpton

Background and history of the Jack Stone Award:

Beth started the Jack Stone Award for New Music at Northwest Vista College in 2010 with funding from a Yale AlumniVentures grant and support from then-president Jacqueline Claunch. Each year, community college student composers from around the United States submit pieces for varied instrumentations, and these pieces are judged by members of the Composers Alliance of San Antonio. A winner and two runners-up are selected, and they are then flown to San Antonio, where they get to meet and form lifelong friendships in addition to hearing their works premiered by top-notch professional musicians. They receive a recording of their works, and the concert is preceded by a master class involving the musicians and at least one of the judges, allowing the students valuable opportunities to learn and grow as composers.

Past performers have included Bel Cuore Quartet, Tetractys, line upon line percussion, Molly Emerman, Steve Parker, Sarah Silver, Graeme Francis, Morgen Johnson, Caroline Shaw, Lorna Kreier, Eleonore Oppenheim, Neal Fitzpatrick, Carly Fleming, Danielle Solerno, and the Olmos Ensemble.

To listen to past years’ winning pieces, visit the Jack Stone Award’s soundcloud page.

 
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Three student composers sit in front of a projection of a musical score on a screen with a facilitator to the right speaking.