Results of the International Music Prize™
for Excellence in Composition 2011
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  • Winners: Preliminary Level
    • Jiun Lim
    • Joy Han
    • Michalis Keffalas
    • Rene Nikolaou
  • Winners: Elementary Level
    • Christine Donkin
    • Jean-Claude Soldano
    • Mark Dal Porto
    • Peter Nostrand
  • Winners: Intermediate Level
    • Jean-Claude Soldano
    • Peter Nostrand
    • Timothy Lee Miller
    • Xinyan Li
  • Winners: Advanced Level
    • Andrew Gelt
    • Andrew Smith
    • Anna Thorvaldsdottir
    • Emanuela Ballio
    • Jeff Briggs
    • Mark Dal Porto
    • Michael Boyman
    • Xinyan Li
  • Winners: Expert Level
    • Anthony Donofrio
    • Burton Goldstein
    • Douglas Knehans
    • Jeff Briggs
    • Luc Brewaeys
    • Maarten van der Meiden
    • Mike Barnett
    • Rajmil Fischman
    • Roberto Toscano
    • Steve Antosca
    • Yukiko Watanabe
  • Finalists: Preliminary Level
    • Dario Cebic
    • Joanne Griffiths
    • Tanya Severyna
  • Finalists: Elementary Level
    • Andrew Staniland
    • Esther Megargel
    • Pietro Dossena
    • Weily Luc
  • Finalists: Intermediate Level
    • Blake Ragghianti
    • Léo Collin
    • Michalis Keffalas
    • Peter Nostrand
    • Tian Xie
  • Finalists: Advanced Level
    • Amit Gilutz
    • Andres Gonzalez
    • Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang
    • Balz Trümpy
    • Charles Nichols
    • Jim Puckett
    • José Mora-Jiménez
    • Ka Chun Ng
    • Lorenzo Meo
    • Maria Karpova
    • Osnat Netzer
    • Stavros Hoplaros
    • Weily Luc
  • Finalists: Expert Level
    • Akiko Ushijima
    • Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn
    • Balz Trümpy
    • Diogo Novo Carvalho
    • Elliott Bark
    • Ingrid Stölzel
    • Jacob Gotlib
    • Jeff Briggs
    • John Griffin
    • Ka Chun Ng
    • Mark Andrew Cook
    • Matthew Tommasini
    • Mei-Fang Lin
    • Michael Eric Deák
    • Olesya Evstratova
    • Patricia Saunders
    • Paul Lombardi
    • Thomas Suárez
    • Thordur Magnusson
    • Timothy Lee Miller
  • International Music Prizes

Jeff Briggs

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPOSITION 2011

Composer's Biography

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Jeff Briggs was born in the southern United States in 1957 and began composing at age 12. In 1975 he entered the Eastman School of Music in Composition and Theory and graduated in 1979. At Eastman, Jeff studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson and won the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky and Lois Lane Prize prizes for composition. In 1980 he received the Masters of Music Degree (composition and theory) from the University of Memphis under the direction of Donald Freund, and won the Haimsohm Prize for composition. In 1984 he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts (composition and theory) from the University of Illinois after work with John Melby, Scott Wyatt, Tom Fredrickson, and others. While at Illinois, he was awarded several prizes for his work including the 1984 ASCAP Composition Prize for Young Composers. After graduation, he attended the McDowell Colony and freelanced as a composer in New York City. At this time Jeff became interested in the emerging field of computer entertainment and too work designing games and composing music for games. In 1988, he took a job in Baltimore with MicroProse Entertainment Software. In 1996 he founded Firaxis Games where he served as President and CEO until 2006, when he sold the company, allowing a return to composing and dealing with music full time again. Jeff currently lives outside Baltimore and works in his studio there. He is married with two daughters.

Prize-Winning Work: Advanced Level

3rd String Quartet
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Prize-Winning Work: Expert Level

Celebration for Orchestra
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Finalist Work: Expert Level

Ecliptic - 3 pieces for Marimba Quartet
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Finalist Work: Expert Level

Two Poems of Hyam Plutzik
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