I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the Iron Composer Prize at the Iron Composer composition contest at Baldwin-Wallace College.. As one of five composers who were invited to compete in person, I was also assigned in the morning of the event an instrumentation and a secret ingredient for a to-be-composed [...]

In collaboration with the University of Aberdeen and BBC Symphony Orchestra of Scotland, Zvonimir Nagy has been short listed for the 2011/12 Aberdeen Music Prize. With entries from Japan, Argentina, Australia, Russia, and the United States, the competition has once again proven to be of international scope and at an exceptionally high standard. From over [...]

Cantus Jubilus, a work for unaccompanied choir and soloists, received the world premiere on April 30, 2011 at St. Olaf Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis. In the concert of music for choir and organ, the University Singers of the University of Minnesota under the direction of Kathy Salzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and Matthew Olson, along [...]