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The 2021 convention has been canceled due to COVID-19.

Indianapolis, Indiana
March 2-6, 2022
Lawrence, Kansas
March 1-5, 2023

Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Composition Contest

SOUSA/ABA/OSTWALD AWARD

Since 1956, this composition contest has stimulated the creation of many important new compositions for concert band and is responsible for more original band music than any other competition of its kind.

Information on the 62nd Sousa/ABA/Ostwald Award composition contest will be posted soon.


Winning Compositions By Year

2020 - Erik Santos - The Seer
2019 - David Biedenbender - Unquiet Hours
2018 - James Stephenson - Symphony No. 2 - “Voices"
2017 - Christopher Lowry - A Cypress Prelude
2016 - Paul Dooley - Masks and Machines
2015 - Aaron Perrine - Only Light
2014 - Steven Bryant - Concerto for Alto Saxophone
2013 - Aaron Perrine - Pale Blue on Deep
2012 - Michael Gandolfi - Flourishes and Meditations
2011 - Yo Goto - Songs for Wind Ensemble
2009 - John Mackey - Aurora Awakes
2007 - Michael Daugherty - Raise the Roof
2006 - No Contest Held
2005 - John Mackey - Redline Tango
2004 - No Contest Held
2003 - No Contest Held
2002 - Peter Graham - Harrison's Dream
2001 - No Winner Chosen
2000 - Donald Grantham - Southern Harmony
1999 - Donald Grantham - Fantasy Variations
1998 - Dan Welcher - Circular Marches - Commission
1997 - Dan Welcher - Zion
1996 - Anthony Iannaccone - Psalms For A Great Country - Commission
1995 - Anthony Iannaccone - Sea Drift
1994 - Ron Nelson - Chaconne (In Memoriam) - Commission
1993 - Ron Nelson - Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
1992 - Timothy Mahr - Endurance - Commission
1991 - Timothy Mahr - The Soaring Hawk
1990 - Gregory Youtz - Fire Works
1989 - Martin Mailman - For Precious Friends Hid In Death's Dateless Night for Wind Ensemble, Op. 80
1988 - Dana Wilson - Piece of Mind
1987 - David Sartor - Synergistic Parable
1986 - David R. Holsinger - In the Spring, at the Time When the Kings Go Off to War
1985 - Joseph H. Downing - Symphony for Winds and Percussion
1984 - James E. Curnow - Symphonic Variants for Euphonium and Band
1983 - Martin Mailman - Exaltations
1982 - David R. Holsinger - Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf
1981 - James Barnes - Visions Macabre
1980 - James E. Curnow - Mutanza
1979 - No Winner Chosen
1978 - James Barnes - Symphony, Opus 35
1977 - William H. Hill - Dances Sacred and Profane
1976 - Lorette Jankowski - Todesband
1975 - Robert M. Panerio, Sr. - Jubiloso
1974 - James S. Sclater - Visions
1973 - Roger Nixon - Festival Fanfare March
1972 - Robert E. Jager - Sinfonietta
1971 - Karl Kroeger - Divertimento for Concert Band
1970 - Fisher Tull - Toccata
1969 - Richard Willis - Aria and Toccata
1968 - Robert E. Jager - Diamond Variations
1967 - Lawrence Weiner - Daedalic Symphony
1966 - John Barnes Chance - Variations on a Korean Folk Song
1965 - Frederick Beyer - Overture for Band
1964 - Robert E. Jager - Symphony for Band
1963 - Frederic H. Ashe - Concert Suite
1962 - Fritz Velke - Concertino for Band
1961 - Joseph Willcox Jenkins - Cumberland Gap Overture
1960 - Florian Mueller - Overture in G
1959 - Maurice Weed - Introduction and Scherzo
1958 - J. Mark Quinn - Portrait of the Land
1957 - J. Clifton Williams - Symphonic Suite
1956 - J. Clifton Williams - Fanfare and Allegro

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