Award Recipients

      Recipients of the awards thus far are (composer, composition title and publisher):       

                                                             2001

First Place:     K. Lee Scott "So Thou Art to Me" (Augsburg Choral Library)                             Second Place: Alfred Fedak "Christus Paradox" (GIA Publications)

                                                              2002  

First Place:      Craig Courtney "Peace I Give to You"  (Beckenhorst Press, Inc.)                        Second Place:  Howard Helvey "Coventry Carol" (Beckenhorst Press, Inc.)

2003         

 First Place:     Mark Shepperd "Advent Canticle" (Beckenhorst Press, Inc.)                              Second Place:  Two winners were announced:

                         Lloyd Larson "When You Prayed Beneath the Trees" (Hope Publishing Co.)

                         Howard Helvey "Ding! Dong! Merrily on High (Beckenhorst Press, Inc.)

 2004       

First Place:      Dan Forrest  "The King of Love My Shepard Is"  (Beckenhorst Press, Inc.)
Second Place:  John Rutter  "Psalm 150" (Collegium Music Publications)

 2006     

First Place Published:      Howard Helvey "Joshua fit de Battle of Jericho" and
                                                  "Love Came Down at Christmas" (Yes a tie.)
Second Place Published:  Joe Martin "Pieta"

First Place Unpublished:      Stephen Main "Wonder Tidings"
Second Place Unpublished:   Gregory Kufchak  "Still, Still with Thee"

1st place in both categories received $5,000 and 2nd in both received $3,000.
 

     In 2004, a new program which matches a promising composer with an established composer for a period of intensive study was initiated. The first pairing was of new composer Derek Hakes and composer and educator Joan Pinkston of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. Mr. Hakes spent a week studying with Ms. Pinkston with expenses provided by the Foundation. It is the hope and desire of the Foundation that this be the first of many new writers who might be enriched by such an experience.

     In regard to the study scholarship program mentioned above, we welcome submissions or nominations of new and aspiring composers. If you or someone you know is interest, please contact Dave Thomas at the phone number or address on the contact us page.     

     The Foundation has a strong commitment to implement the wishes of John Ness Beck and it will continue to search for new ways to ensure that the rich choral tradition he established lives on.