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| born January 10, 1955 Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Charles Norman Mason has received many awards for his compositions, including the 2005-06 Rome Prize, the 2002 First Prize in the Atlanta Clarinet Association Composition Competition, a 1999 Craig Hultgren Biennial Solo Cello Composition Competition, a 1998 Premi Internacional de Composició Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, a 1999-2000 Commission Award from the Alabama Music Teachers Association, two Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Grants from the American Music Center, a 1999 Plymouth Music Orchestra Reading selection, a 1995 Delius Prize, a 1997 Honorable Mention in the Tampa Bay Excellence in Composition competition, a 1996 Dale Warland Singers Commission Prize, a Broadcast Music Inc. Award for Young Composers, First Prize in the Panoply of the Arts competition, First Prize in the City Stages Classical Music competition, and honorable mention in the International Bourges Electro-Acoustic Composition Competition. |
| Among the commissions he has received are 2003 commissions from the Alabama Symphony, the Goliard Ensemble, the Corona Guitar Quartet (Denmark), and ONIX (Mexico). The grants he has received include a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Individual Composer Grant, a 1997 commission award from the Fairbanks Symphony Association, several Meet the Composer Grants, a Sacred Music commissioning award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, a composition grant from the Alabama Council on the Arts, a creative leadership grant from 3M, a faculty development grant from Birmingham-Southern College, and a research grant from the University of Illinois. He has also been invited to attend numerous professional composer workshops and conferences. He has participated in the 1994 June in Buffalo composers workshop, the 1994 Czech/American Summer Institute in Prague, was a resident composer at the Hambidge Center, the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, the ppIianissimo New Music Festival in Bulgaria, and was sponsored by the Seaside Institute as a "Escape To Create" composer-in-residence at Seaside, Florida. |
| Charles N. Mason was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and has lived in Miami, Indianapolis, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. For the last 17 years he has been composing and living in the city of Birmingham. He has studied composition with many renowned composers including Don Erb, Lukas Foss, Milton Babbitt, Roger Reynolds, Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, and John Melby. He holds a doctorate in music composition from the University of Illinois. |
| His music has been performed throughout the US including the Aspen Music Festival as well as in Europe and Latin America and is available on ten different compact disc recordings including a 2001 release of the Gregg Smith Singers recording of his Anthem of Despair and Hope and his choral and tape piece From Shook Foil (Living Artist Recordings, volume 7). |
| An strong advocate of other composers and new music in general, Dr. Mason is executive director of Living Artist Foundation, an organization devoted to promoting new music. Mason was editor of the Living Music journal for fifteen years prior to taking over the Foundation in 1999. Mason is also co-founder of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, an organization whose primary purpose is to present concerts of new music in the Birmingham area. For six years, he was vice-president of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U. S., , and is currently chairman of the Alabama Music Teachers Association Composition Commissioning program. Finally, he is founder and director of Living Artist Recordings a non-profit recording company that is solely dedicated to new music. He teaches composition and theory at Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal arts college in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| www.charlesnormanmason.com |
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