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Pictures 2012: Just a minute ... 
7th Annual New Jersey Student Music Composition Contest
In the tradition of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition, New Jersey Pre-college (grades 7-12) and College students are invited to create an original
one-minute composition for solo piano based on Untitled #142 (right) by Philip Guston, currently on exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum. Winning compositions will be premiered by Carl Patrick Bolleia in the Pictures 2012 Concert at the Montclair Art Museum on
Thursday, May 24th.

AWARDS:
  • Pre-College Category (7-12th grade) – 2 composers will each receive $100
  • College Category – 1 composer will receive $250
  • All three selected pieces will also be performed in concert and professionally recorded

Master Class at William Paterson University
Tuesday, May 8, 3:30-6:30pm, Shea 101
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Awards Gala and Concert at the
Montclair Art Museum
 Thursday, May 24, 7:30pm (6:45pm pre-concert lecture)

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    Philip Guston (1913-1980)
    Untitled #142, 1979
    Oil on Canvas; Painting: 36 x 32 in (91.4 x 81.3 cm)
    Bequest of Musa Guston. 1992.72
    WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!

    7th annual New Jersey Arts Collective
    Student Music Composition Contest Winners

    College Winner
     Tara Buzash, Song for Philip Guston
    (Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ)
    Graduate student in Jazz Piano Performance
    Hometown – Hopewell, NJ

    College Honorable Mention 
    Hank Mason, Dialogue Between Ambiguous Shapes
    (Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ)
    Undergraduate in English and Music
    Hometown – New Brunswick, NJ

    Pre-College Winner
    Aria L. Hadjipetkov, Neprydatnykh Chastyn “Unfitted Parts”
     7th grader at Mendham Township Middle School – Brookside, NJ

    Pre-College Winner
    Adam Har-zvi, Perses’ Carnival
     Senior at Glen Rock High School – Glen Rock, NJ

    All pieces will be performed at the COMPOSER’S FORUM on
    Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 3:30-6:30pm at
    WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY
    Shea 101

    Pieces by Tara Buzash, Hank Mason, Aria L. Hadjipetkov and Adam Har-zi
    will be performed on Thursday, May 24 at 7:30pm at the
    PICTURES 2012 CONCERT at the Montclair Art Museum along with
    the Ionisation Pictures 2012 Commissions from several of NJ’s top composers.
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