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Sartor Wins Thirty-Fourth ASCAP Award November 23, 2023 - David Sartor has been notified by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers that he is the recipient of an ASCAP PLUS award for 2023. The ASCAP Plus awards, announced annually, serve to recognize and reward composers whose works have a unique prestige value beyond the scope of performance surveys. Award winners are selected each year by an independent panel of distinguished experts. This is the thirty-fourth year that Sartor has received this award. Sartor wins National Conducting Award September 15, 2021 - David P. Sartor has won Third Prize nationally in this year's prestigious American Prize Competition for Orchestral Conducting, Community Orchestra Division. Sartor is the founder and Music Director of the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra, based in Nashville. The orchestra’s ranks include professional session musicians, college music professors and instructors, and members of the Nashville Symphony and other area orchestras. Sartor, a veteran conductor and composer with more than four dozen national and international honors and awards to his credit, is now the only person who has won American Prizes in three major categories: Conducting, Composition and Orchestral Performance. The committee of judges also designated him as an "Honored Artist of the American Prize,” in recognition of “sustained excellence” in the competitions. "I am deeply honored by the award, and am grateful to each member of the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra," said Sartor, a Wilson County resident who also is on the music faculties of Cumberland University and Trevecca Nazarene University. "It is a privilege to lead such fine musicians, and to be recognized for that effort." Founded in 2015, the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra is a 52-piece orchestra that performs not only historical literature but works by living composers - especially those in Middle Tennessee. Concerts have featured local artists David Hobbs, Michael Arndt, Emily Hanna Crane, Jennifer Kummer, Stephen Drake, David Johnson, Ann Richards, Bonnie Farr, and Emily Bowland as soloists. The American Prize competitions are unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States. Parthenon Chamber Orchestra Receives National Award September 23, 2020 The Parthenon Chamber Orchestra has won Third Place nationally in this year's prestigious American Prize Competition for Orchestral Performance, Community Orchestra Division. "I am gratified and honored that one of Middle Tennessee's newest artistic treasures has achieved this level of national recognition," said PCO Music Director and Conductor David P. Sartor, who is also on the music faculty of Middle Tennessee State University. "This award is a testament to the caliber and musicianship of the orchestra members." The Parthenon Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2015 by Sartor. Its ranks include professional session musicians, college music professors and instructors, and members of the Nashville Symphony and other area orchestras. The 52-piece orchestra performs not only historical literature but works by living composers - especially those in Middle Tennessee - and has featured area artists David Hobbs, Michael Arndt, Emily Hanna Crane, Jennifer Kummer, Stephen Drake, David Johnson, Ann Richards, Bonnie Farr, and Emily Bowland as soloists on concerti. The American Prize competitions are unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States. Parthenon Chamber Orchestra Receives National Honors July 10, 2019 - For the third consecutive year, the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra has been selected as a national finalist for The American Prize in Orchestral Performance. "For a relatively new orchestra to progress to the finals of the competition for three years running is quite an accomplishment," said David P. Sartor, Parthenon Chamber Orchestra Music Director and Conductor. "I am ecstatic that one of Nashville's newest artistic treasures is achieving national recognition." The American Prize competitions are unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States. Composer David Sartor named HONORED ARTIST of The American Prize
November 20, 2014
Middle Tennessee Composer and Conductor David P. Sartor is one of only five American composers chosen nationwide as an Honored Artist of The American Prize.
The American Prize competitions are unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers
in the United States. Honored Artists are individuals who have proven themselves to be musicians of “sustained excellence" over a number of seasons as
contestants in the national competitions. In the past three years, Sartor's compositions have earned prizes in the Chamber Music Composition and Choral
Music Composition Divisions, and have also achieved Finalist status five times in the Orchestral, Band/Wind Ensemble and Chamber Music Composition Divisions.
“The American Prize has auditioned many works by these five composers over several seasons,” said Maestro David Katz, chief judge of The American Prize.
“Each of the five exhibits a unique voice, a substantial catalog, multiple performances and serious intent. Each deserves every opportunity to be heard.
We are delighted to bring added attention to their considerable gifts.”
Sartor is Adjunct Professor of Composition at Trevecca Nazarene University and is Music Director of the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra. His many published
compositions are widely performed nationally and internationally and have been recognized with prestigious awards which include the American Bandmasters
Association’s Ostwald Prize for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music, the National Fine Arts Award, and more than three dozen awards from ASCAP, New Music for
Young Ensembles, the Delta Omicron Foundation, Meet The Composer Foundation, the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra,
among others. In 2009, Sartor was the recipient of the Delta Omicron Foundation's Thor Johnson Memorial Commission, and was inducted as a National
Patron of Delta Omicron in recognition of his accomplishments as a composer and conductor.
Sartor Compositions Advance to Finals in Three Composition Divisions of "The American Prize"
July 7, 2014
Three compositions by David P. Sartor have advanced to Finalist status in the ongoing judging of the Composition Divisions of the 2014 American Prizes,
national awards celebrating American excellence in the arts.
It was announced this month that Sartor is a Finalist in the Chamber Music Composition Division, the Band/Wind Ensemble Composition Division, and the Orchestra Composition Division of the prestigious awards.
Sartor is a Wilson County based concert music composer and conductor, and is Adjunct Professor of Composition at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville.
His many published compositions are widely performed nationally and internationally and have been recognized with prestigious awards which include the
American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Prize for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music, the National Fine Arts Award, and more than two dozen awards from ASCAP,
New Music for Young Ensembles, the Delta Omicron Foundation, Meet The Composer Foundation, the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra,
the New Haven Oratorio Chorus, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, among others.
The final round of judging continues in the weeks ahead, with the winners in each category slated to be determined and announced in early August.
New Sartor Chamber Work a Winner in Sewanee King Beetle Contest May 7, 2014 - SCARAB!,
a new work for Flute, Bassoon and Harp by David P. Sartor, has won Second Place in the Sewanee Summer Music Festival's 2014 King Beetle Composition Contest.
Sartor's 4-minute work musically depicts the legend of Sewanee's King Beetle.
New Sartor Choral Composition Wins National Composition Contest October 18, 2013 - Amid The Cruel Winter Snow,
a new work for SATB choir and harp by David P. Sartor, has won First Place in the New Haven Oratorio Choir's Composition Contest.
Sartor's composition will be premiered by the choir and harpist Grace Cloutier under the direction of Artistic Director Daniel Shaw at their December
15, 2013 winter concert, at the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, CT.
Sartor Receives Double Honors in Composition Divisions of "The American Prize"
July 8, 2013
For the second consecutive year, compositions by David P. Sartor have received high honors in two Professional Composition Divisions of the 2013 American Prizes, national awards celebrating American excellence in the arts.
His Polygon for Brass Quintet was awarded Third Place in the Chamber Music Division, and his Synergistic Parable was named as a Finalist in the Band/Wind Ensemble Division.
Sartor is a Wilson County based concert music composer and conductor, and is Adjunct Professor of Composition at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville.
His many published compositions are widely performed nationally and internationally and have been recognized with prestigious awards which include the
American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Prize for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music, the National Fine Arts Award, and more than two dozen awards from ASCAP, New Music for Young Ensembles, the Delta Omicron Foundation, Meet The Composer Foundation, the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, among others.
In writing about Polygon, the judges praised the work's "skill and motivic rigor in its thematic treatment, with idiomatic parts, varied textures, and gleaming brass sonorities."
Both Polygon and Synergistic Parable have been previously honored with other awards as well - Polygon with the National Fine Arts Award, and Synergistic Parable with the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Award.
"It's so gratifying to be honored in this manner in a competition of national scope," said Sartor. "This is a wonderful opportunity to call attention to the fact that today's concert music composers do not all live in New York or on the West Coast. Wherever performing ensembles may be located across the nation, there are probably excellent composers in their back yards."
Prologue Premiere Opens Yamaha National Concert, Establishes Annual Tradition June 24, 2013
- Prologue, a new fanfare for 3 trumpets by David P. Sartor, was premiered at the BOA/Yamaha Music For All Symposium at Ball State University on June 24, 2013 as the opening work on the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Winners' Recital.
The piece was composed for and dedicated to the YYPA Program on the occasion of their 25th anniversary, and was premiered by (left to right above) Stephen K. Bottom (BACH Conn-Selmer Trumpet Artist and Clinician),
Joshua Gilbert (2013 Yamaha Young Performing Artist Winner) and Chad Winkler (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra).
The premiere of Prologue was so enthusiastically received by the large audience that the Yamaha Corporation announced it will be used to open the Winners' Concert every year.
Sartor Compositions Garner National Honors in Both Composition Divisions of "The American Prize" May 31, 2012
- Compositions by David P. Sartor have received high honors in both Composition Divisions of The
2012 American Prize, national awards celebrating American excellence in the arts. His "Thy Light
is Come" for chorus, organ, brass and timpani won Third Place in the Choral Composition Division,
and his "Portent and Apotheosis" was named a Finalist in the Orchestral Composition Division. Sartor Inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron July 17, 2009 - David Sartor has been named as the newest National Patron of Delta Omicron, based on his accomplishments as a composer and conductor. Delta Omicron is a co-educational international professional music honors fraternity founded to create and foster fellowship, to develop character and to arouse and encourage the appreciation of good music and performance. The title of "Patron" is conferred by the organization upon a distinguished musician who has attained a national reputation in his or her field. With his induction, Sartor joins an elite roster of current and past composers, conductors, performers and educators which includes Samuel Barber, Beverly Sills, William Bolcom, Kenneth Schermerhorn, and Lucas Foss. Sartor was also the recipient of the Delta Omicron Foundation's Thor Johnson Memorial Commission, awarded to every three years to an eminent concert music composer. The commission funds the creation of a new work to be featured at the organization’s Triennial Conference. Sartor's induction as a National Patron was presided over by Dr. Jonny Ramsey, Delta Omicron International President, and took place at the Delta Omicron Triennial Conference in Cincinnati following the premiere of his Passages for String Quartet by the Atlantis String Quartet. Sartor Named to Who's Who in America® for Fifth Consecutive Year June 24, 2009 - Composer David Sartor has been notified that his biography will be included in the 64th Edition of Who's Who in America®, published by the Marquis Corporation. Inclusion in the exclusive volume is limited to men and women who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their respective fields, and who have also contributed significantly to contemporary society. This is Sartor's fifth consecutive year to be profiled in the publication. For over 100 years, Who's Who in America® has compiled and published biographies of notable Americans. The publication is the leading reference for executives, journalists, personnel recruiters, librarians, researchers, students, and many others who seek in-depth and dependable biographical information on America's leaders. Reveries Wins Burlington Chamber Orchestra's Composer Competition February 10, 2009 - The Burlington (VT) Chamber Orchestra has announced that David Sartor's Reveries for String Orchestra has been named as the winner of their 2009 Composers Competition. The work will be premiered on May 29, 2009 and May 30, 2009 by the BCO on the final concerts of their 2008-2009 season. Founded in the summer of 2007 and now in their second season, the BCO is one of two professional orchestras in Vermont. Sartor Awarded Delta Omicron's "Thor Johnson Memorial Commission" June 29, 2007 - Nashville composer David P. Sartor has been selected by the Delta Omicron Foundation as the recipient of the Thor Johnson Memorial Commission. Delta Omicron is a professional international fraternity in the field of music, with chapters established throughout the United States and abroad. The Thor Johnson Memorial Commission, awarded every three years to a distinguished concert music composer, funds the creation of a new work to be featured at the organization’s Triennial Conference. Sartor will compose a piece for string quartet that will be premiered at the 2009 Triennial Conference, which also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Delta Omicron. “Fulfilling this commission will be a special pleasure for me, as Dr. Johnson was the conductor of the Nashville Symphony for many years and played a significant role in my own musical development,” said Sartor. “I am honored to be chosen to celebrate his legacy and to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Delta Omicron.” Reveries Advances to Finals in "2007 Adagio Composition
Contest"
June 26, 2007 - The Fauxharmonic Orchestra has announced that David Sartor's Reveries for String Orchestra has been named as one of three finalists in the Orchestra's 2007 Adagio Composition Contest.
Concerning the three finalists, Maestro Paul Henry Smith wrote, "These works clearly stood out in their ability to evoke sadness. They are also very well made pieces of music. They capture your attention, speak in an almost personal style, and leave you wanting to hear the piece again."
Sartor's piece was selected from more than 165 compositions entered in the contest.
Concerto for Orchestra a Finalist in Columbia Orchestra's "American Composer Competition"
February 28, 2007 - The Columbia Symphony Orchestra has announced that David Sartor's Concerto for Orchestra has
been named as a finalist in the American Composer Competition. The competition is held biannually by the orchestra to foster the creation and performance of orchestral music by American composers. Sartor's Orchestral Works Selected for Release on ERM Media's "Masterworks of the New Era" CD Series
Three of David Sartor's orchestral compositions - Metamorphic Fanfare, Concerto for Orchestra, and Black Ball Counts Double - have been selected for release under ERM Media's prestigious "Masterworks of the New Era" CD series. The works have been recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic, with Robert Ian Winstin conducting. Sartor's three works were selected from more than 1,100 compositions considered for the recording sessions. Metamorphic Fanfare was commissioned and premiered by the Knoxville (TN) Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Music Director. It has been praised by performers, conductors, critics and audiences as "instantly appealing," "fascinatingly complex," "wonderfully crafted, "cunningly clever," "a real crowd-pleaser," "fun to play," and "a wonderful addition to the repertoire." Metamorphic Fanfare was recorded in July 2005 and was released in March 2006 on Masterworks of the New Era Volume 8. The second work, Sartor's twelve-minute Concerto for Orchestra, employs an eclectic palette ranging from the pointillistic to the lyrical. In the tradition of Bela Bartok's work of the same name, the musical materials are explored in a continuously unfolding development of both timbre and motive, painted in exotic textures that include piccolo and contrabassoon solos and even an extended tuba cadenza. Concerto for Orchestra was recently named as a Finalist in the Columbia Symphony Orchestra's "American Composer Competition." It will be released on Masterworks of the New Era Volume 17. The final work, Black Ball Counts Double, received a commendation in the 2003 Oare International Composing Competition, based in England. It was premiered on April 23, 2005 by the Mission Chamber Orchestra, San Jose, California, Emily Ray, Music Director. Black Ball Counts Double was recorded in late 2006 and will be included in Masterworks of the New Era Volume 12, scheduled for release in the Winter of 2008. The ERM label strives to bring masterworks of our era into the mainstream through landmark recordings with great orchestras and worldwide distribution to major radio and television markets, brick & mortar stores, internet stores and print media. The "Masterworks of the New Era" CD series is available through major record outlets and enjoys airplay on radio stations around the globe. Scores and parts for David Sartor's compositions are available from Metamorphic Music. Thy Light Is Come Featured in Cathedral Choral Society's "The Joy of Christmas" Concerts at Washington National Cathedral
Sartor Completes "Meet The Composer" Residency at California State University Bakersfield
June 6, 2004 - David Sartor was Guest Composer and Conductor at California State University Bakersfield from June 3-5, 2004, in a mini-residency co-sponsored by Meet The Composer Inc. and the CSUB Music Department, Dr. Doug Davis, Chair. Over the three days Sartor was featured in a number of events, including teaching master classes and leading discussions of his music with students, area musicians and the public. The residency concluded with a Saturday evening concert by the CSUB Concert Band on which Sartor conducted his Synergistic Parable, winner of the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Award for Symphonic Band Music Composition. Meet The Composer is a New York-based organization whose mission is to increase opportunities for professional composers by fostering the creation, performance, dissemination, and appreciation of their music. Composers apply for the highly competitive grants in conjunction with a sponsoring organization, and all events funded by Meet The Composer are open to the public. Black Ball Counts Double Receives "Highly Commended" Award in Oare International Composing Competition
December 2, 2003 - The string orchestra version of David Sartor's Black Ball Counts Double has been honored with a "Highly Commended" award in the Oare String Orchestra's Third Annual International Music for Strings Composition Contest. The contest, based in England, attracted entries from around the globe. Recording Session Completed February 6, 2004 - The Nevsky String Quartet has recorded the string quartet version of David Sartor's Black Ball Counts Double in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
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