Sentence examples for won a composition from inspiring English sources

He remained there for two years and in 1930, he won a composition scholarship at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London; his examiners were the composers John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams and the college's harmony and counterpoint teacher, S P Waddington.

He served as a cryptographer for the US air force and then in 1950 won a competition for a new composition from the American Federation of Music Clubs.

The song, a Hoagy Carmichael-Johnny Mercer composition, won a 1952 Oscar.

Ketzel, who won a prize for piano composition in 1997 and went on to be featured in a book, "The World of Women in Classical Music," died Wednesday in Manhattan.

She balances producing experimental pop with her band, the Shapes, with MCing in various grime collectives and her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won a scholarship to study composition... Her prodigious musical talent has not gone unnoticed: Mark Anthony Turnage has commissioned her to write an orchestral piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Last year I won an award for a composition called Golden Waves which used sounds from space.

(8) In 1975, he won a Grammy for best instrumental composition.

Bruce was born in Glasgow on 14 May 1943 and was educated at Bellahouston Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, to which he won a scholarship for cello and composition.

The piece won an award for original composition in 1997 from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

A recording of his Violin Concerto won a Grammy Award for best contemporary composition in 1994.

Strindberg had a better than typical eye for composition; he had once won a photography contest.