Karen Power receives an honorable mention at the IAWM 2009 Search for New Music Competition.

The composer received the mention for the Theodore Front Prize, a competition for a composer of chamber and orchestral works who is at least 22 years old, for her orchestral work one piece of chocolate per bar. The work was composed in 2008 for the Ulster Orchestra.

The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Search for New Music Competition is held each year and includes ten different prize categories ranging from chamber and orchestral works to electro-acoustic media, improvisation, and sound installation.

Karen Power is originally from Cork and studied at University College Cork and the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast. Her electro-acoustic tape piece fried rice, curried chip and a diet coke was a finalist at the 2009 ASCAP/SEAMUS (Society of Electro Acoustic Music in the US ) Student Commission Award in the US, and her ensemble and tape piece squeeze birds to improve your garden's plant variety was selected for performance in the Annual Concert of IAWM at the University of North Texas by the NOVA Ensemble later this year.

For further information on the IAWM competition, please see www.iawm.org.

Posted: 5 June 2009