Sean Friar, a graduate student in the music department, has won a 2011 Samuel Barber Rome Prize in musical composition and is the youngest winner of the prize in over a quarter of a century.
The award was given by the American Academy in Rome to 30 individuals “who represent the highest standard of excellence in arts and humanities.”
Along with the prize comes a year-long residency at the Academy, where Friar will look to expand his “Clunker Concerto.”
The “Clunker Concerto” is a junk car percussion quartet concerto he wrote earlier this year.
He performed it with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in March.
Friar attended University of California, Los Angeles for his undergraduate education.
He has “studied at the Apeldoorn, Aspen, Bang on a Can, Bowdoin and Norfolk Music Festivals,” according to a University statement.
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