BMI Student Composer Award winners announced. (Items of Interest).Previous MTNA National Competition winner Sebastian Chang, age 14, is one of nine 2002 BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. Student Composer Award winners. This award recognizes superior creative talent, and winners receive scholarship grants to be applied toward their musical education. Cash awards totaled $20,000. More than 700 manuscripts were submitted to the competition from throughout the Western Hemisphere. Chang, who studies privately in Orange County, California Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana. According to the 2000 Census, its population was 2,846,289, making it the second most populous county in the state of California, and the fifth most populous in the United States. , also received a Carlos Surinach Prize, which is underwritten by the BMI Foundation's special endowed fund. Chang resides in Trabuco Canyon, California Trabuco Canyon is a small, unincorporated community in Orange County, California, with a population of only a few thousand. Each 4th of July includes an old-fashioned parade of locals riding horses and pulling home-made floats to the cheers of observers who are small in numbers but , and attends the Orange County High School of the Arts Established in 1987 by Dr. Ralph Opacic, the Orange County High School of the Arts (commonly referred to using the acronym OCHSA ) is a 7th through 12th grade, tuition free, donation dependent, public charter school located in downtown Santa Ana, in Orange County, California. in Santa Ana. He has won numerous prizes, including first place in the 2000 and 2002 MTNA National Student Composition Competition as a student of Suzanne Wong-Abe. |
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