The American Prize recognizes CCM Composition Professor
Miguel Roig-Francolí receives two honorable mentions in the 2024 awards
UC College-Conservatory of Music congratulates CCM Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Composition Miguel Roig-Francolí on his recent recognition from the American Prize. Roig-Francolí received two honorable mentions in the 2024 awards, including in the orchestra works category for his Sinfonia, "De Profundis” and in the instrumental chamber music category for his Sonata for Two Guitars.
Miguel Roig-Francolí
A renowned national competition, the American Prize recognizes outstanding artists in a variety of areas, including composition, piano, voice, chamber music, conducting and ensemble performance. Roig-Francolí previously won the 2016 American Prize in Composition (Band/Wind Ensemble Division) for "Perseus," and a 2021 Honorable Mention (Instrumental Chamber Music Division) for "Five Preludes After Chopin."
Roig-Francolí has been recognized internationally for his work as a music theorist, composer, musicologist and pedagogue. His compositions have been widely performed in Spain, England, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. He is the author of Harmony in Context and Understanding Post-Tonal Music, as well as over 20 articles and reviews in leading scholarly journals in the USA, Europe and South-America. Among his many honors are first prize at the National Composition Competition of the Spanish Jeunesses Musicales (1981) and second prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (Paris, 1982); and the University of Cincinnati’s A.B. "Dolly" Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007) and George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Creative and/or Scholarly Works (2009).
Miguel Roig-Francolí will retire from CCM in 2025, and will be among eight retiring faculty and staff members who will be honored at Moveable Feast on January 24, 2025. Learn more at ccm.uc.edu/moveablefeast.
He will also be celebrated during the CCM Concert Orchestra's "The Sound of CCM" performance on April 26, 2025. Learn more at ccm.uc.edu/onstage.
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