Blue Hill library names Young Composer awards

BLUE HILL – As part of the Bagaduce Music Library’s education program, the library recently named the winners of this year’s Young Composer’s Competition Award.

Jurors Paul Sullivan, Irving Forbes and George Sopkin regarded the following five pieces as the most outstanding of compositions reviewed: “Voice of the Wind,” for violin and piano, by 12-year-old Cameron Hamilton of Lee; “The Hero,” for violin and piano, by 12-year-old Aarika Ritchie of Lee; “Mi Sobrina,” for violin and piano, by 15-year-old Michaela Ham of Springfield; “Peace of the Stars,” for string quintet, by 15-year-old Timothy Burns of Biddeford; and “Variations on Becca,” written for four saxophones by 18-year-old Corey Tibbetts of South Portland.

All the winners received a certificate of achievement, a check for $75, and free membership for the Bagaduce Music Lending Library. In his letter to the winners, chairman of the Library’s Education Committee Dr. Robert Godwin wrote: “We hope you’ll keep music an important part of your life because we think music makes all the difference!”

The library has already begun preparations for its 6th Young Composers Competition. The terms can be found on its Web site www.bagaducemusic.org, and entries will be due by mid-March of 2003. The incoming chairman of the Education Committee, Alton Downer, encourages all students in elementary and high school to send in compositions.