ASCAP Foundation Honorees

Publication: BackStage
Date: Friday, December 17 1999

Louis Armstrong Scholarship (Queens College): Matthew Koza
Aspen Film Fellowship: Robert Paterson
Berklee College of Music/Songwriter-in-Residence: Steve Seskin
Leiber &

Stoller Scholarship: Jennifer Quan
Leonard Bernstein Fellowship at Tanglewood: David Mallamud
Sammy Cahn Award: Andrea Marcum and Rose Polenzani
Max Dreyfus Scholarship (NYU Tisch School): Brent Lord
Dreyfus/Warner Chappell/CCNY Scholarship: Chris Todd
Boosey & Hawkes/Aaron Copland Award (LaGuardia HS): Jesse Dulman
Ira Gershwin Award (LaGuardia HS): Daniel S. Lee and David Wong
Raymond Hubbell Award: Gregory Mertl
Frederick Loewe Scholarship (NYU Tisch): Bernard E. Anderson Jr.
Metropolitan Opera Guild/Composer-in-Residence: Jonathan Faiman
The Millennium Commissions honoring Aaron Copland: Robert Maggio, Gregory Mertl, Carlos Sanchez-Guttierrez Rudolf Nissim Award: Sean Heim
NYU Film Fellowship in Florence: Joseph Brady
Richard Rodgers New Horizon Award: Andrew Lippa

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