FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! NEWS from Young Concert Artists, Inc. DAVID HERTZBERG WINS 2012 SEARCH FOR NEW YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE March 15, 2012 —22-year-old American composer David Hertzberg has been chosen as the 2012-2014 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence . Mr. Hertzberg will be commissioned by Young Concert Artists to write two works for musicians on the Young Concert Artists roster, who will premiere the works in New York and Washington, DC. Mr. Hertzberg’s first work will be written for the new YCA ensemble miXt , which will give the premieres in the Young Concert Artists Series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on December 4, 2012, and in New York at Merkin Concert Hall on December 11, 2012. Mr. Hertzberg joins the roster of Young Concert Artists to receive davidhertzbergmusic.com management services, publicity, and career development including opportunities for new performances and commissions. A panel of Young Concert Artists Alumni who listened to CDs and read scores sent by the applicants to the program included Emily Bruskin (violinist), Kenji Bunch (composer), Makoto Nakura (marimbist), Christòpheren Nomura (baritone), Ursula Oppens (pianist), Kevin Puts (composer), Susan Rotholz (flutist), and Jeffrey Swann (pianist). Young Composers are nominated for the YCA Composer Program by alumni and current artists of Young Concert Artists, composers on the Program’s National Advisory Committee, ASCAP, and BMI. David Hertzberg was nominated by composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Mr. Hertzberg has been commissioned to write a new work for the New Juilliard Ensemble, which will be premiered at Alice Tully Hall next season. At the Master Class Programme at the Swedish Collegium in Uppsala, Sweden in May where he will work with Steven Stucky and Anders Hillborg, Mr. Hertzberg will have a new work premiered by the Stenhammar Quartet. He will study with George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music Festival this summer. His "Nympharum" for High Soprano & Orchestra was premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 2011 as a result of winning the Juilliard Orchestra Competition. He was the recipient of a 2012 Charles Ives Scholarship, the Juilliard School’s 2011 Arthur Friedman Prize in Composition, and the William Schuman Prize at the 2011 BMI Student Composer Awards. Mr. Hertzberg is currently working with Samuel Adler at the Juilliard School. He has also studied composition at the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt in 2008, the Freie Universität in Berlin in 2009 and at the European American Musical Alliance at La Schola Cantorum in Paris in 2010. His teachers have included Russell Steinberg, David Fick, and Whitman Brown. Young Concert Artists, Inc . is a non-profit organization that has developed and launched the careers of composers Mason Bates, Benjamin C. S. Boyle, Kenji Bunch, Dan Coleman, Daniel Kellogg, Andrew Norman, Kevin Puts and Chris Rogerson, as well as performers including Emanuel Ax, Murray Perahia, Dawn Upshaw, Richard Goode, Paula Robison, Carter Brey, Pinchas Zukerman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the Tokyo and St. Lawrence Quartets. The Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence Program began in 1994 as an initiative of the YCA Alumni Association. It receives support from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the William B. Butz Memorial Fund, and the Alumni musicians of Young Concert Artists. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND PHOTOS CONTACT : Lianna Portnoy, Publicity Manager Email: [email protected] Telephone: (212) 307-6655 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ .