The Feed a Starving Young Canadian Composer Award 2010 contest has ended, and although there were only two entries we still believe it was a success. We had fun, and we hope that we accomplished our goal of inspiring all you composers out there.

Judges: Alphonse Nguyen and Stuart Tom Downing

Name: Tobias D.
Age: 15
Bio: Umm… Student?
Title: Meeneemahleesahm
Description: Just something I came up with in a day. Iunno. Nothing interesting about it.
Link: pdf, midi
Judges’ comment: The title is clever, and your piece turned out better than the average exercise we usually find in this genre. Good job.

Name: camille lagroux
Age: 14
Bio: i just started to compose for fun
Title: sneaking around
Description: the title says it all lol
Link: youtube
Judges’ comment: While it is a rhythmically colourful piece with its use of silence, it lacks direction melodically and harmonically. Good attempt.

Winner: Tobias
Prize: $50 and a pat on the back

Congratulations to Tobias, and thank you everybody for your support and participation!

So “The Feed a Starving Young Canadian Composer Award” contest has officially ended. Please check back in a few days for when we announce the winner.

When I saw Victor Borge’s performance of this awesome piece, I knew I had to learn it even though my fingers were old and rusty. Although I didn’t play it as well as he did, I hope I did it enough justice.

Ignaz Friedman – 6 Viennese Dances on Themes by Gartner (No. 2)

You can download the free mp3 of the dance here.

Also, don’t forget to check out my contest!