In addition to being selected as a finalist in the
ASCAP Young Composer Awards on three separate occasions,
Mr. Wramage has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell
Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,
and scholarships from the Bowdoin, Brevard, Aspen,
and Norfolk music festivals and the American Conservatory
in Fontainebleau, France. In 1998, he was awarded
the New Music for Young Ensemble's Josef Alexander
Award for his wind quintet, Brilliant Mirrors, which
was premiered by Pentasonic Winds in December of 2000
and sponsored in part by a Meet the Composer Fund
Grant. Mr. Wramageâs orchestral work Deep Midnight
was selected by David Zinman for the Aspen Music Festival
Jacob Druckman Composition Prize (2000). Deep Midnight
was premiered by the Aspen Sinfonia conducted by Daniel
Hege and supported by the first of Mr. Wramageâs two
Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Grants.
Other prizes include the 2000 Delius Festival Composition
Contest Chamber Music Award for his trio Last Words
of a Hunger Artist (After Kafka, 1999), and the
CUNY Graduate Center Robert Starer Composition Prize
for his sextet in shadows, in silence.
In April of 2001, Mr. Wramage was chosen by Richard
Danielpour as one of six associate-artists in residence
at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. While at the
Atlantic Center, Mr. Wramage completed his first string
quartet which was read by the ensemble- in-residence,
the American String Quartet. In the summer of 2002,
Mr. Wramage was awarded his second residency at the
MacDowell Colony where he composed in shadows, in
silence, which was premiered by eighth blackbird later
that summer at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
He then took part in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestraâs
Composition and Conducting Institute where his Deep
Midnight was performed by Lawrence Leighton Smith
and the NJSO. Michael Daugherty selected Mr. Wramage
to receive the 2002 Michigan Music Teacherâs Association
Commission, and in October 2002, Mr. Wramage's song
cycle Mourning Songs, on poems of Donald Justice
was premiered at the MMTA annual conference. Pianist
Bruce Levingston premiered Mr. Wramageâs most recent
piano work, Seven Solitudes, at Alice Tully
Hall in April 2003. The following summer, Mr. Wramage
was one of three composers selected by Michael Daugherty
to participate in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
Music Young Composer's Workshop. While at Cabrillo,
the chamber orchestra version of Mr. Wramage's
in shadows, in silence was premiered by the Cabrillo
Festival Orchestra.
Mr. Wramage's Into the Black Oblivion (1999),
a setting of Donald Justice's Psalm and Lament
for baritone and chamber ensemble, has been recorded
by the SCI CD Series on Capstone Records, and his
The Last Days of Summer, for wind ensemble
has been selected for inclusion in the rental library
of Southern Music Publishing. Several radio programs
have featured Mr. Wramage's music, including "The
Dean's List" on Aspen Public Radio,"Fresh
Ink" on WCNY, and "Soundcheck" on WNYC.
Mr. Wramage is currently a doctoral candidate at the
City University of New York Graduate Center where
he studied with David Del Tredici and George Tsontakis.
He has also studied with David Liptak, Steven Stucky,
Joan Tower, Michael Daugherty, and Christopher Rouse.
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