Question: Roman Yakub won first price in a Choral Composition Competition at a liberal arts college founded by who?

Context articles: List of liberal arts colleges
Roman Yakub
Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Howard J. Buss
Ithaca College
Macalester College
Liberal arts college
Hampden–Sydney College
Colorado College
Milligan College

Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges or universities with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts.
 The "Encyclopædia Britannica Concise" offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum."
 Although the genesis for what is known today as the liberal arts college began in Europe, the term is commonly associated with the United States.
 Liberal arts colleges are found in countries all over the world as well.
 See the list (link) of international members of the Association of American Colleges and Universities for other institutions offering liberal arts education programs.
Roman Yakub (born 1958) is a composer who received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine.
 He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition.
 In 1991, he moved to the United States, where he earned a master's degree in music composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in composition at Boston University.
, In 2006, he won First Prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition for "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod".
 In 1997, Yakub became a runner-up in the ALEA III International Composition Competition.
Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae ("Song of Maritime Calamity") is an eight-part, "a cappella" classical choral composition by the Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi.
 Completed in 1997, the piece was inspired by the  disaster of 1994.
 It won third prize in the European composition competition for cathedral choirs in 1997.
 The piece is approximately 12 minutes in duration.
Howard J. Buss (born January 6, 1951 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
 Buss’ works include instrumental solos, chamber music, symphonic, choral, and band works.
 His music has received awards including the 2011 Lieksa (Finland) Brass Week Composition Competition, the 2015 American Trombone Workshop National Composition Competition, the National Flute Association’s Newly-Published Music Competition, the Erik Satie Mostly Tonal Award, State of Florida Fellowships, and ASCAP Plus Awards.
Ithaca College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational liberal arts college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York, United States.
 The college was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca, Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and gorges.
 The college is best known for its large list of alumni who have played substantial roles in the media and entertainment industries.
Macalester College ( ) is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US.
 It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college.
 Its first class entered September 15, 1885.
 Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,978 students in the fall of 2013 from 50 U.S. states and 90 countries.
 In 2015, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked Macalester as tied for the 23rd best liberal arts college in the United States, 6th for undergraduate teaching at a national liberal arts college, and 19th for best value at a national liberal arts college.
A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.
 A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.
 Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts.
 Although it draws on European antecedents, the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education, and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model.
Hampden–Sydney College, also known as H–SC, is a liberal arts college for men located in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, United States.
 Founded in 1775, Hampden–Sydney is the oldest private charter college in the Southern U.S., the 10th oldest college in the U.S., the last college founded before the American Revolution, and one of only three four-year, all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.
 Hampden–Sydney College is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.
The Colorado College (CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, near the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
 It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell in his daughter's memory.
 The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90 acre campus, 70 mi south of Denver.
 The college offers 42 majors and 33 minors, and has a student-faculty ratio of 10:1.
 Famous alumni include James Heckman, Ken Salazar, Lynne Cheney, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Marc Webb, and Steve Sabol.
 Colorado College had an acceptance rate of 15% for the Class of 2021, was ranked as the best private college in Colorado by Forbes, and was listed as tied for the 23rd-best National Liberal Arts College, and as the No. 1 Most Innovative Liberal Arts School, in the 2018 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings.
Milligan College is a selective Christian liberal arts college founded in 1866 and located in the mountains of Upper East Tennessee and the Tri-Cities region of the state.
 The school has a student population of more than 1,200 students, most of whom reside and study on its 195 acre campus which is located just a few miles from downtown Johnson City.
 It is consistently ranked as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country and well known for its core humanities program.
 Milligan was named a "College of Distinction" in 2011.
 In 2016, the college was named the number two institution of higher education in the state of Tennessee, second only to Vanderbilt University and was ranked one of the best colleges in the nation by the 2017 edition of "The Princeton Review"