# Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Salvatore Martirano (1927–1995), who was an internationally acclaimed American composer and served as professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995. The first place prize consists of US$1,000 and a performance by the Illinois Modern Ensemble at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

## Awards

| Year | First prize | Second prize | Other honors |
| 1997 | Jason Eckardt: Echoes' White Veil | | |
| 1998 | Karim Al-Zand: String Quartet | | |
| 1999 | Keith Moore: A Vagrant on Every Floor Craig Walsh: 0 to 33 in 1045.5 | | |
| 2000 | Sophia Serghi: Sizzle | | |
| 2001 | Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Paisaje del Sonido II | | |
| 2002 | Yumiko Juvigny: Out of Dark Lair | | |
| 2003 | Edward Top: String Quartet | | |
| 2004 | Robert Yamasato: Scherzo | | |
| 2005 | Steven Rice: Murmurs from Limbo | | |
| 2006 | Douglas Boyce: 102nd & Amsterdam | Jorge García del Valle Méndez: Seok Yang Jong | Calogero Panvino: Sonata 101 (Honorable mention) Nicholas Paul Vines: Dolmen for a New Albion (Honorable mention) |
| 2007 | Takeo Hoshiya: Instability Principle | So Jeong Ahn: Ssa-reng, ui... | Christopher Arrell: Argot (Honorable mention) |
| 2008 | Abel Paúl: fragmentos del vértigo | Sungji Hong: Shades of Raindrops | Carl Bettendorf: Inner Life (Third prize) |
| 2009 | Michael Klingbeil: Tear of the Clouds | Vladimir Rannev: Variations on an Impulse | Christopher Bailey: Walking down the Hillside... (Honorable mention) Geoff Knorr: Of Consonance and Contention (Honorable mention) |
| 2011 | Louis Aguirre: Ochosi for string quartet | Marcin Stanczyk: Nibiru | Julien-Robert Legault Salvail: Chute libre (Third prize) |
| 2012 | Michael Seltenreich: Sparks and Flares | Stephen Yip: Dark Side of the Shadow | |
| 2013 | Luís Antunes Pena: Im Rauschen Rot for double bass, percussion quartet, and electronics | Daniel Moreira: The King from Papatua | Alexander Khubeev: Sounds from the Dark Time (Third prize) |
| 2014 | Nina C. Young: Traced Upon Cinders for 13 musicians | Aurélio Edler-Copes: Encore Seule | David Coll: Act (Third prize) |
| 2015 | Matthew Ricketts: Flat Line for 15 players | Anthony Vine: For Agnes Martin | |
| 2016 | James O'Callaghan: Among Am A for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics | Nicola Straffelini: Labyrinth Song for piccolo, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano | |
| 2017 | Oren Boneh: Winter Walks That Gravel My Voice for viola and chamber ensemble | Igor Santos: Two Two for chamber ensemble | David Bird: Drop for string octet and strobe lights with electronics |
| 2018 | David Clay Mettens: Without Air for flute, viola, cello, harp, and percussion | Charles Peck: Sunburst for piano quartet | |
| 2019 | Joshua Hey: I am in here for violin and cello | Katherine Balch: Prelude for piano and cello | Selim Goncu: Widerklang for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello |
| 2020 | Zhuosheng Jin: A Piece of Watermelon for soprano and six instrumentalists | Stylianos Dimou: les instances for large ensemble and diffused, synthesized soundso |
| 2021 | Luis Quintana: Smudges over dripping ink for piano and ensemble | Utku Asuroglu: In Between for chamber ensemble and electronics | Paul Novak: as the light begins to drift for sinfonietta (Honorable Mention) |
| 2022 | Timothy Roy: dans les dents de la guivre for harp, multichannel electronics, and lighting | Emre Sihan Kaleli: Adjacent rooms, a part of a labyrinth for chamber ensemble | Tomasz Skweres: Event Horizon for chamber ensemble |
| 2023 | Anna-Louise Walton: Basket of Figs for soprano, flute, and clarinet | Louis J. Goldford: Mauvaise Foi for soprano, chamber ensemble, and electronics | Lina Tonia: Magna Carta Libertatum for chamber ensemble |
| 2024 | Omer Barash: Te’ena | Chris Fisher-Lochhead: stutter-step the concept | Daniel Fawcett: Echoes of Wild Petals |