Daniel Smith (Carmel High School)
Daniel Smith is currently a freshman at Ivy Tech Community College. He began writing music during his freshman year at Carmel High School and has not stopped since then. Daniel currently studies music composition and hopes to transfer to Indiana University to continue his studies, as well as pursue a second degree in political philosophy. Whatever happens, Daniel plans to write music for the rest of his life.
Confliction: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; (Proverbs 3:5). What should I believe? Our own drives and temptations tell us that the world in which we live is all there is, that the here and now are all that matter. Yet, I find that I can’t quite make myself give up my faith. Perhaps the rest of the world is running out of room for belief, but I still try to hold on. It was easy, at first but I can feel the conflict building inside me. I will be strong. I must.
Alex Williams (Westland Middle School, Indianapolis)
Alex Williams has been involved with music since a young age, when he started taking piano lessons, but has since moved on to percussion. He has played drums at charitable events for organizations such as Riley Children’s Hospital, the Greencastle Jazz Festival and has performed with an IUPUI Jimi Hendrix project for 3 years. Alex studies composition with Dr. Frank Felice of Butler University and has studied areas such as atonal, contrapuntal, fugal and electronic composition. Outside of music, he is a freshman at North Central High School in Indianapolis and an avid enthusiast of detective shows.
Fanfare: My goal with this piece was to write a traditional band piece. I started writing it in 7th grade, and I scored
the whole thing out by hand. After I had most of my ideas written out, I finalized the score using a computer. The whole process was done by the middle of my 8th
grade year, after I had worked on it off and on. Being a
percussionist myself, I gave the percussion section a fair bit of the spotlight – the percussion section carries a large amount of importance throughout the piece. Overall, the piece is a very standard, brass-oriented fanfare.
Zoologie: The idea for a Bassoon-Percussion duet arose because I had a bassoonist friend that I wanted to play a duet with. I wrote a short piece that I thought would be fun to play. We never actually got around to playing the piece, but I brought it to my teacher, Dr. Felice who guided me through writing the next 7 movements. I only submitted 4 to the IMEA contest: I, II, IV and VIII. The piece itself is based on animals, or the interaction between animals and other things in nature (hence, “Zoologie”). The first, second and fourth movements are based on a cat and mouse (playful and interactive), a bumblebee (quick, with a string), and a sloth and a eucalyptus (slow and drawn out), respectively. The eighth movement is mostly a return to earlier material. In Zoologie, I explored with a more dissonant harmonic language.
Clay Wulbrecht (Lafayette Jefferson High School)
Clay Wulbrecht, a sophomore at Jefferson High School, Lafayette, has been playing piano and composing since age 5. In addition to being a winner in both the Jazz Combo and Piano Solo categories of the IMEA Composition Competition, Clay has taken top honors in both piano performance and composition at the Federation of Music Competitions, Hoosier Piano Competition and the West Lafayette Musicale. He is a member of the 2011 Indiana All-State Jazz Combo, was a member of the 2010 All-State Jazz Combo, and was recognized as the Rhythm Sec- tion Player of the Year at the 2011 Purdue Jazz Festival. Clay’s private studies include classical piano with Dwight Monical, Jazz improvisation with Dr. Luke Gillespie of Indiana University and composition, theory, and jazz piano and improvisation with Dr. Judd Danby. He hopes to pursue a degree in jazz studies and composition after high school.
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