Emily Cooley and Sturdivant Adams awarded 2020 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

USC Thornton Composition alum Emily Cooley (MM ’14) and Screen Scoring alum Sturdivant Adams (MM ’19) have both been awarded the 2020 Morton Gould Young Composer Award. The national juried competition honors composers of original, classical concert music under the age of 30.

Cooley received the award in recognition of her piece titled “Dissolve.” Adams received the award in recognition of his piece titled “Revolutions.”

Benjamin Webster, a master’s student in the Composition program, also received honorable mention for his Piano Quartet for piano, violin, viola, and cello.