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Composition Competitions

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Periodically the Mader Fund will hold composition competitions culminating in a high-profile concert featuring the winning piece. First prize in these competitions has reached as high as $10,000. On occasion we also commission new pieces.

Past Composition Competition Awards

  • 2023 - Aaron Travers, "Midnight Toccatas"   (Click here to learn more about the event)

  • 1994 - Craig Phillips, "Fantasy: Torah Song" (award partially funded by grants from District of Columbia AGO Foundation and San Francisco Chapter, AGO, Special Projects Fund)

  • 1980 - Gordon Schuster, "Sonata for Organ"

Mader Scholarship Fund
P.O. Box 3118, La Habra, CA 90632

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