Over 70 composers have participated in the John Ness Beck Choral Composers’ Workshops, Alumni Workshops, and Mentoring Sessions, and have gone out with renewed inspiration and heightened vision of craftsmanship and excellence in choral composition and overall musicianship. While publication is never the only measure of compositional success, or necessarily the highest goal, it does, nevertheless, figure prominently in the goals of the Ness Beck Foundation. Numerous workshop alumni are now contributing increased repertoire to the choral world through Beckenhorst Press and various other publishers, including:
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- Marques L. A. Garrett
- Kyle Pederson
- Elaine Hagenberg
- Marianne Forman
- Tom Trenney
- Tim Osiek
- Shelton Ridge Love
- Jon Reid
- Trevor Manor
- Timothy Shaw
- Joshua Sparkman
- Ethan McGrath
- Dan Wells
- Mark Shepperd
- John Reim
- J. Marty Cope
- Benjamin Knoedler
- Mitchell Covington
- Jantz Black