But deserving British nominees such as singer Marsha Ambrosius, who topped the US Billboard chart earlier this year, and rapper Wretch 32, composer of three top five UK singles, went home empty handed.
Too many short pieces were crammed into too little time, but the concert did include the world premiere of "Fire Burning in Snow," a setting for mezzo-soprano, oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin and piano by Charlotte Bray, an up-and-coming British composer, of three densely written poems by Nicki Jackowska about love relationships that are troubled in different ways.
She is the author of five books and the composer of three music CDs.
Sibelius, composer of seven visionary symphonies, wrote a sizable body of piano pieces that remain mostly neglected.
This "Death" has music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, the Tony Award-winning composer of "Nine" and "Titanic," as well as a book by Thomas Meehan and Peter Stone and direction by Doug Hughes.
With the likes of Maury Yeston, the composer of "Nine," and Edward Kleban, the lyricist of "A Chorus Line," he offers critiques and idea-sharing to professional theater writers.
Look, ye Mighty, on the works of August Bungert, floruit 1900, the composer of four Homeric operas and the symphonic poem "Genius Triumphans: Zeppelin's First Great Flight".
The composer of five operas and numerous oratorios, Parry is still very much part of the Welsh tradition of art music.
In a career spanning some seven decades, he was a student of Bartok, teacher of important American composers, composer of eight operas (including "Lizzie Borden," premiered by NYCO in 1965), and seminal figure of 20th-century American opera.
But the composer of one, David Del Tredici, insisted that his "Dynamic Duo 'Farewell' for Violin and Bass Trombone" was more than that: a "civilization premiere," the first pairing — ever, anywhere — of those two instruments.
Nico Muhly — once a downtown darling, now a seasoned pro — is the composer of "Two Boys," the only work born of the Metropolitan Opera-Lincoln Center Theatre new-music initiative to actually reach the Met's stage.
