2023 NYC songSLAM Competition
RESULTS:
Congratulations to all of the teams competing in songSLAM this year!
We are excited to announce the winners of the NYC songSLAM 2023.
Live audience voting awarded first place to Team 1, second place to Team 11, and third place to Team 14.
Most votes in the virtual SLAM went to Team 8, followed by Team 12, and Team 14 in third place.
Most money raised by each team, went to Team 12, followed by Team 1, with Team 11 in third place.
The 2023 songSLAM commission prize has been awarded to composer Laura Nevitt, selected by a panel including Lydia Brown, Reginald Mobley, and Lucy Shelton.
VIRTUAL VOTING INSTRUCTIONS:
Virtual voting for the NYC songSLAM was open from January 13th at 7pm EST through 11:59 PM EST on January 22nd. Voters listened to each work and voted for their favorite via Give Lively (link below each video).
The funds that each team raises during the virtual event will be split 50/50 with the respective team members and Sparks & Wiry Cries, who will use their portion to reinvest into larger commissions, future competitions, and new art song initiatives.
A further prize for the commission of a new song cycle, to be premiered in 2024, was awarded by a jury consisting of soprano Lucy Shelton, countertenor Reginald Mobley, pianist Lydia Brown, and the Sparks & Wiry Cries Directors: soprano Martha Guth and pianist Erika Switzer.
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2022 songSLAM commission prizewinner Shawn Chang’s Us Now, premiered at songSLAM 2023 NYC
Shawn Chang, composer & pianist; Erin Wagner, mezzo soprano; Jacqueline Suskin, Poet, Used with Permission; Kaylee Olson, Dancer
Team 1 • Welcome to Guntown
Maria Thompson Corley, composer & pianist
AddieRose Brown, soprano
Text by: AddieRose Brown
Team 4 • Hymn to the Night
Timothy Morrow, composer & pianist
Josh Lisner, tenor
Text by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Team 7 • Recorders ages hence
Zoe Yucong Wang, composer
Sophie Thompson, soprano
Brian Wong, pianist
Text by: Walt Whitman
Team 10 • There Is No Magic Anymore
Clint Borzoni, composer & pianist
Michelle Trovato, soprano
Text by: Sara Teasdale
Team 13 • What Does Freedom Look Like?
Robert Gross, composer
Shana Oshiro, soprano
Adam Mahonske, pianist
Text by: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Team 2 • Let it hurt you then let it heal you / Je peux aimer
Samuel Beebe, composer
Natasha Nelson, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Wuu, pianist
Text by: Sara Costantino
Team 5 • My Soul is Awakened
Dina Pruzhansky, composer
Susannah Stewart, soprano
Maeve Berry, pianist
Text by: Anne Brontë
Team 8 • Baffled for just a day or two
JL Marlor, composer
Micah Gleason, mezzo-soprano
Gracie Francis, pianist
Text by: Emily Dickinson
Team 11 • Climbing
Erik Franklin, composer
Claire Galloway, soprano
Edward Rothmel, pianist
Text by: Amy Lowell
Team 3 • Cultivo una rosa blanca
Youngmo Na, composer
& pianist
Hannah Cho, soprano
Text by: José Martí
Team 6 • Forsworn
Laura Brenneman, composer & pianist
Kyra Miller, mezzo-soprano
Text by: Emilia Bassano Lanier & William Shakespeare
Team 9 • Moonrise
Laura Nevitt, composer
Regina Stroncek, soprano
Taylor Burkhardt, pianist
Text by: Hilda Doolittle
Team 12 • To the River
Marie Herrington, composer
Emily Tate Daniel, soprano
Timothy Krippner, pianist
Text by: Edgar Allen Poe
Team 14 • Courage
Lauren Spavelko, composer
Jennifer Sgroe, soprano
Eric Sedgwick, pianist
Text by: Elizabeth Gilbert