Composition Competition Winners 2022

Massimo De Lillo is an Italian composer, music arranger and teacher. He graduated with honors in composition at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari and also specialized in film music with Luis Bacalov at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.
He has been awarded first prizes in several international composition competitions, including the RŮŽIČKOVÁ Composition Competition in Greit Britain (2021), the CLASSIC PURE VIENNA Composition Competition in Austria (2020) and the International Competition BRUNO SERRI in Modena, Italy (2017).
His works have featured in festivals and concerts in Italy, Argentina, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and United States. Some of his compositions have been recorded for the Digressione Music label (Italy) and published by Trübcher Publishing, Prima la musica! (Great Britain) and WIP Edizioni (Italy).
He also studied philosophy, graduating with honors at the “A. Moro” University in Bari. He has published several essays and books on musicological, philosophical and pedagogical subjects, including the critical catalogue of Ottavio De Lillo musical works.
He currently teaches at the “G. Salvemini” high school in Bari.

Allen Molineux (b.1950) received a B.M. degree in composition from DePauw University, a M.M. in composition degree from the Eastman School of Music and a D.M. in composition from Florida State University. In addition, he attended the Lukas Foss Workshop at Indiana University in 1981, Gunther Schuller’s 1986 Atlantic Center for the Arts Workshop and Pierre Boulez’s Carnegie Hall Workshop in 1999.  His orchestral work “Trifles” was the winner of the Tampa Bay Symphony’s first composition contest; receiving three performances by them in 2017. In addition, it is now released on the ABLAZE Records label and is published by Da Vinci Publications. His work “Zappy” for brass quintet and three percussionists was chosen as the winner of the Percussive Arts Society’s 2017 composition contest. In 2019, his “Something Unsettled” for trumpet and piano was the winning submission in Catagory I for the McMurry New Music Project and his “Tears of Ramah” was the first place winner of the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble Composition Contest and was performed by the University of Louisville’s Wind Ensemble at the College Music Society’s National Conference.
In 2021, his “Scherzi” was recorded by composer/pianist Jeffrey Jacob on the New Ariel label and his string orchestra piece “Contentamento” by conductor Pawel Kotla and the Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra on the Phasma-Music label.
For 35 years he taught at several universities and colleges such courses as Theory, Composition, Arranging, Counterpoint, Form and Analysis, Band, Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble. He is now retired from full time teaching, which has given him more time to compose.