G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers, part of Wise Music Group, is proud to announce the winner of the 2024 G. Schirmer Prize for Luna Composition Lab: Marvel Jem Roth, for her composition lens.
Inaugurated in 2019, the G. Schirmer Prize offers mentorship and recognition for select works by composers participating in Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid’s program for young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers. Now in its ninth season, Luna Composition Lab provides aspiring young composers with a year of one-on-one mentorship, performance opportunities, and high-quality recordings of their work. The G. Schirmer Prize is annually given to one Luna Lab Fellow; it provides them with financial support, as well as publishing industry mentorship and networking opportunities.
“We’re thrilled that Marvel Jem Roth has been chosen as the recipient of the 2024 Schirmer Prize,” write Mazzoli and Reid. “Her work lens, for string quartet and electronics, is an innovative and fresh work that combines exciting rhythmic passages, extended techniques, manipulated electronics, and surprising textures, all resulting in a gorgeously original compositional voice. We’re sure that Marvel will continue to thrive in her compositional career, and we’re excited to be with her at its very beginning.”
2024 Schirmer Prize Winner
“Los Angeles. Home of Hollywood and tabloids. Home to Malibu waves, to rare rain, to fire, earthquakes, to helicopters. lens was written encapsulating what Los Angeles has meant to me as a second-generation Angeleno. This work in a way is a “lens” into my life, driving from the Santa Monica Mountains to Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the ways in which I have seen my life, my home, be distorted through media.” – Marvel Jem Roth
Marvel Jem Roth, 17, is a composer-conductor from Los Angeles, California. Marvel’s compositions have been performed by the Colburn School, Southeast Symphony, Juilliard School, members of the LA Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale, Kronos Quartet, NYO-USA, and more. Marvel was a three-year fellow in the LA Philharmonic Composer Fellowship Program, 2024 Composer Apprentice for Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra (NYO-USA) throughout its residency and tour, and 23-24 Luna Composition Lab Fellow. She has studied under composers including Andrew Norman, Angelica Negrón, Sean Shepherd, and Sarah Gibson. Outside composition, she has performed and conducted across genres from music directing and conducting staged two-act productions to playing stride piano at Jazz at Lincoln Center, to playing horn in the Colburn Youth Orchestra. Marvel is a freshman at Princeton University studying music, economics, and finance.
“Luna Composition Lab is truly a one-of-a-kind, transformative experience,” writes Roth. “I am so grateful to Ellen Reid and Missy Mazzoli for creating this safe haven for female composers to come together and explore music in its fullest sense. I left the Luna/Kronos Festival in June intellectually and creatively inspired and rejuvenated after seeing so many incredible women achieving greatness and pushing the musical boundaries in the most beautiful of ways.”
“We are very pleased to award the 2024 Schirmer Prize for Luna Lab to composer Marvel Jem Roth and her inventive and evocative string quartet lens,” writes Peggy Monastra, Vice President of G. Schirmer, Inc. “We look forward to getting to know her better and to help further introduce her to our industry. Her recent experience with Luna Composition Lab shows great promise and builds on the extensive experience she has already pursued in her musical life as composer, conductor and performer.”
About Luna Lab
Luna Composition Lab’s mission is to close the gender gap in the field of music composition. Founded in 2016 by composers Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid, Luna Composition Lab provides mentorship and resources for young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers. Luna Composition Lab is the only initiative of its kind in the United States. It has achieved national recognition as a program that not only celebrates underrepresented voices but also shapes music’s future by providing a support system for continued success. Luna Composition Lab’s signature program—the Luna Lab Fellowship—offers six young composers one-on-one mentorship with acclaimed professional composers annually. Mentors guide fellows in the composition of a new piece of music that is premiered by a professional ensemble as part of a weeklong festival in New York City. In addition, Luna Composition Lab offers a series of group composition courses—Adventures in Sound—that support young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming musicians who are interested in creating their own music. Alumni of the fellowship program have gone on to receive national awards, attend the nation’s top colleges and conservatories, and have been commissioned by renowned chamber ensembles and orchestras.
About G. Schirmer
Part of Wise Music Group’s international network of publishing houses, G. Schirmer, Inc. is the oldest continuously active North American classical music publisher. Through its international network of publishing houses, including Chester Music, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Alphonse Leduc, and Edition Peters, the Group represents works by many of the most important creators from the 20th and 21st centuries, including Samuel Barber, Daniel Catán, John Corigliano, Donnacha Dennehy, Ludovico Einaudi, Duke Ellington, Julius Eastman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Charles Ives, George Lewis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Sergei Prokofiev, Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Bright Sheng, Tyshawn Sorey, Tan Dun, Joan Tower, and John Tavener.
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