Audio and videotapes will not be considered. Please enclose the attached entry form with your name and identifying number with your scores. The winning composition may be performed on an Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra Series concert during the 2002-2003 Season. Per our musicians' union agreement, this concert may also be recorded and broadcast on a Nebraska public radio station. A score and one set of parts for each winning composition performed will remain the property of the Omaha Symphony Association.
Travel expenses are primarily the responsibility of the winner.
The award may be withheld if, in the opinion of the judges, the granting of such award is not merited. No composer may win two consecutive years. Top of Page Victor Yampolsky , Music Director Born in Russia, Victor Yampolsky was born into a formidable musical family. He was a student of Mikhail Garlitsky at the Moscow Central Music School and later Oistrakh's at the Moscow Conservatory. Yampolsky became Assistant Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970, under the direction of Maestro Kyrill Kondrashin.