The Peabody Post

Scott Lee receives ASCAP award

Scott LeeScott Lee (MM ‘ 13, Composition) is a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s 2015 Morton Gould Young Composer Award  for his piece, Bottom Heavy. Established in 1979, with funding from the Jack and Amy Norworth Fund, The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Awards program grants cash prizes to Concert Music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a juried national competition. The award-winning composers share prizes of over $45,000, including a complimentary copy of Sibelius software. Lee is currently a James B. Duke Fellow at Duke University where he is pursuing his PhD in Composition, mentored by Scott Lindroth and Steve Jaffe. Read the full press release here.

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