Boulder High School Sophomore receives national award

Boulder High student, 15 years old Isaac D. Allen is awarded Honorable Mention by the ASCAP Morton Gould National Young Composer Competition.  Established in 1979, the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards encourage developing music creators during the earliest stages of their careers. This program selects several young composer recipients age between 12 and 30 each year for its awards. It is named in memory of eminent composer and conductor, Pulitzer Prize winner Morton Gould.  

Isaac is currently a sophomore and honor roll student of Boulder High, concurrently taking college courses at the University of Colorado Boulder. He started music training when he was eight playing piano and violin.  Isaac has received many local and national titles since his solo debut in Boulder at age 10.  This year, Isaac is the Denver Concerto competition winner, and he will be performing Prokofiev's violin concerto in DYAO's 35th year anniversary season finale at the Boettcher Concert Hall of the Denver Performing Art Center on 04/27/2013. 
Isaac is two-time scholarship recipient of the Heifetz International Summer Institute. This summer, Isaac receives full tuition scholarship from the Aspen Music Festival.  He will be participate the AMFS for full summer session, trained by prominent music educators and work with talented young musicians from all over the world.

Isaac frequently performs solos, accompanied by local orchestras in Boulder, Longmont, Broomfield, Aurora, and Denver. Isaac has performed in master classes for Nicholas Kitchen, James Buswell, Grigory Kalinovsky, Patinka Kopec, Pamela Frank, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Kenji Bunch, and Charles Wetherbee.  But he enjoys most to perform for communities events to promote humanity and classical music.  Such as Longmont United Hospital, Tennyson Center for Children, Boulder Public Library, HCR ManorCare, Balford Senior Living, First Congregational Church in Boulder, DYAO painted violin, Longmont’s Concert for 5th graders, and Colorado Public Radio’s Instrument Drive.  

This past summer, a thumb injury kept Isaac away from instrument practice; therefore Isaac channeled his musical energy to composition.  He wrote piano miniatures, sonata for violin, as well as chamber and orchestral pieces. Isaac’s orchestral piece was played by the BHS Orchestra lead by Dr. Katharine Mason. This past September, the world-renowned composer Daniel Kellogg accepted Isaac as his private student, who encouraged Isaac to enter composition competitions.  Isaac's first String Quintet is now awarded Honorable Mention in the ASCAP Foundation’s Morton Gould National Young Composers Competition.  Isaac hope that his orchestra piece may be considered by our local orchestras in the future.  

For any question regarding to this news, please email or call 303-652-7884.

Attached is Isaac's photo, curtesy by photographer Nick Howell. 

 

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