The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts was established in 2021 to honor the legacy of distinguished mezzo-soprano Ariel Bybee (American, 1943-2018). Each year, the Endowment grants a prize/commission for the creation of new art or original scholarship by Latter-day Saints as a result of a call for submissions. The disciplines represented by the Endowment correspond to her career highlights and passions in one of these nine, rotating categories: opera, dance, scholarship, art songs, youth education, hymns, visual arts, collaborative arts, and choral music.
In our fifth year, The Ariel Bybee Endowment is focusing on choral music. We invited composers to submit proposals for a new work for chorus, a capella or with piano accompaniment, 5-7 minutes in duration, appropriate to be programmed as an uptempo work to begin a concert program. Applications have now closed, with an announcement of a winner forthcoming.
The jury has been chosen by the Endowment from among musicians of recognized prestige worldwide: Dr. Brady Allred, Josu Elberdin, Dan Forrest, Neylan McBaine, Dr. Daniel McDavitt, Dr. Stanford Olsen, Dr. Lauren Adja Tian.
More Info: https://www.centerforlatterdaysaintarts.org/bybee-call
