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"If you are like me you will take everything else out of your CD changer and put in these two 'Masterworks' discs - what a fantastic set!"

Martin James
San Francisco

"A striking compilation of distinctive, award-winning chamber and orchestral works by contemporary, living composers. Ranging from eerie and haunting atmospherics to broad and majestic assertions, from chilling strings to lumbering trombone, from the experimental and academic to the playful and animated, this album reveals the most creative, colorful and expressive work of some of today's top writers. Take a step beyond the standard repertoire and venture into the 'Masterworks of the New Era.'"

CD Baby

"With distribution to more than 370 radio stations across North America and Europe, along with access to major music retailers in the United States and Canada, 'Masterworks of the New Era' is among the leading vehicles for getting contemporary classical music before the public."

Record Entertainment

I would like to say how pleased I have been with my personal and business relationship with ERM Media. When I heard about ERM's new CD series "Masterworks of the New Era" I knew it would be something quite extraordinary and I wanted to be part of it. Throughout this process ERM Media has been very helpful in communicating and promptly answering all questions. The recording on which I have a composition(Vol 2) was produced in an extremely professional manner. ERM is very good about sending their CDs out to radio stations and since Volume 2 was released it has received a tremendous amount of radio play-even by my local classical radio station here in San Francisco who rarely air contemporary music. In
addition to all of the above ERM is fair about sending out mechanical royalties (unlike many other record companies which which I have been
involved) and even has acted as an intermediary between the recording orchestra and myself in arranging future performances of my piece. I
highly recommend ERM Media as an excellent recording company.

Nancy Bloomer Deussen, Composer - Volume Two

Masterworks Prize

For several years, ERMMedia has been awarding the prestigious Masterworks Prize for living composers.

Selection process is quite rigid, and winners are awarded recording contracts with world-class orchestras and released on the ERMMedia CD series "Masterworks of the New Era".

The resultant press and publicity from the Masterworks Prize and the compact discs is enormous, and exposure from radio play of the "Masterworks of the New Era" CD's is fantastic.

Awarded composers have been the recipients of Grants, Scholarships, Performances and further Recording Contracts.

ERMMedia is devoted to the composer, and it is our pleasure to present - in alphabetical order - the Masterworks Prize winners from inception to present day. (More awards are pending and are awarded year-round.)

The following are the Masterworks Prize winners:

2003

John Beall ("Raven Rock")
Sy Brandon ("I Am Music")
Forrest Covington ("A Winter's Poem")
Thomas DeLio ("Than")
Howard Feldsher ("Concerto Grosso")
Igor Korneitchouk ("Three Haiku & A Poem")
Chihchun Lee ("Fan-Jen")
Jacco Muller ("Mirage")
Eldad Tsabary ("June 5th, 1973")
Tyler Goodrich White ("Elegy for the Orphans of Terror")

2004

John Burge ("Snowdrift")
Timothy Cutler ("Four Songs for Tenor & Piano")
Nancy Bloomer Deussen ("Peninsula Suite")
L. John Ernst ("Vermilion River")
Frederic Glesser ("Dazyes")
Michael S. Horwood ("Six Chromosomes for ochestra")
Gustav Hoyer ("The Lion Triumphant")
Ching-chu Hu ("In Frozen Distance")
Gregory Hutter ("Urban Collission")
Jonathan D. Little ("That Time of Year")
Charles Norman Mason ("Expressway")
Jonathan R. Pieslak ("severed")
Mark Dal Porto ("Galactica")
Thomas L. Read ("On October Ground")
Alejandro Rutty ("Tango Loops")
Joseph Gentry Stephens ("The Gospel of Thomas")
Michael Sydney Timpson ("Symphony Three - 'Plethora'")
Mark Volker ("Sisyphus Rising")
John Winsor ("Three Essays for Orchestra")

2005

Lee Actor ("Prelude to a Tragedy")
Floyd Barnes ("'Scherzo' from 'Symphony'")
Mike Barnett ("Broken")
Greg Bartholomew ("Suite from Razumov")
Leigh Baxter ("Lewis & Clark: A Symphonic Poem")
Chris Bowman ("Sanctus")
Carson Cooman ("The Sky About to open")
Forrest Covington ("Anagogue")
Paula Diehl ("Landward")
Howard Feldsher ("Concerto for Saxophone & String Orchestra")
John Heins ("Ballade")
Gustav Hoyer ("Front Porch Rondo")
Paul Johnson ("The Wild Swans at Coole")
Stephen Knopp ("Polarities")
Steve Kornicki ("Morning Star Rising")
Jonathan D. Little ("Fanfare")
Michael Mauldin ("Music for the Mountain Air")
Lawrence Moss ("New Dawn")
Jacco Muller ("Shadow of a Dancer")
Dagobert Pfeiffer ("Fanfare for the 21st Century")
Frank Russo ("Primum Mobile")
Eleanor Sandresky ("Meditation for String Orchestra")
Alan Shockley ("the night copies me in all it's stars")
Max Simoncic ("Petit Cirque")
Boaz Tarsi ("Concert Aria")
Daniel P. Wade ("Copland Calling")
Kevin Walczyk ("Celebration Fanfare")
Mark Edwards Wilson ("Delphi: Symphonic Metamorphoses")
Sherry Woods ("Wisdom Fanfare")

2006

John G. Bilotta ("Concerto for Wind Quartet & Orchestra")
Sy Brandon ("Twas The Night")
Andy Brick ("Hungarian Overture")
Benedikt Brydern ("Ikarus")
Chia-Chi Chen ("Sleep, Valley")
Mark Dal Porto ("When Your Song Rang Out To Me")
Paula Diehl ("Ceremony")
Howard Feldsher ("Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra")
Jack Gallagher ("Diversions Overture")
Frederic Glesser ("By Five")
David F. Golightly ("Concerto for Strings")
Peter Golub ("Dark Carols")
Ethan Haimo ("Symphony for Orchestra")
Dorothy Hindman ("Magic City")
Gregory Hutter ("Urban Colission")
Paul Johnson ("Spring in War-Time")
Benjamin Karlen ("O Magnum Mysterium")
David Kirtley ("Leaves Falling from the Holy Tree")
Edward Knight ("Big Shoulders" & "Cradle of Dreams")
Tony K.T. Leung ("In the Beginning")
Jorge Liderman ("Glimpses")
Jonathan Little ("Variations on a Theme")
Kevin McCarter ("Opening Ideas")
Andrew March ("A Stirring in the Heavenlies")
Pamela J. Marshall ("Windshine")
Deeann Mathews ("A Modern Christmas Carol")
Michael Mauldin ("Fajada Butte: An Ephiphony")
Margaret Meachem ("Lift Thine Eyes ...")
Mavis Pan ("A Christmas Carol")
Marcella Pavia ("Shalott")
Bruce Polay ("Golden Oldie")
David Gray Porter ("In the Quad at Noon")
Daniel Powers ("The Angel's Song")
Mona Lyn Reese ("Toboggan")
David P. Sartor ("Metamorphic Fanfare")
Carl Schroeder ("Two December Carols")
Paul Shin ("Nebulae")
James Stephenson III ("The Magic of Christmas")
Evelyn Stroobach ("O Come, O Come, Emmanuel")
Margaret Collins Stoop ("The Shepherd & The Night Sky")
Boaz Tarsi ("Concert Aria")
JoAnne Wagner ("The Miracle Carol")
David Ward-Steinman ("Season's Greetings")
Ronald J. Williams ("Nightwinds, & "Sing Noel")
David Yeagley ("Ha Nitzol")

2007 (Thus far ...)

Andrew Anderson ("Small Town")
David Arkenstone ("Surrounded by Beauty")
Richard M. Audd ("Concert Fanfare")
Jason V. Barabba ("DNR")
Greg Bartholomew ("On The Ground Where We Live")
Edward Bogushevsky ("Vakha")
Robert Ceely ("Three Satires")
John Celentano ("The Cynic's Demise")
Nancy Bloomer Deussen ("American Hymn")
Samuel O. Douglas ("Millennium Fanfare")
L. John Ernst ("Elegy")
Robert Hagenbuch, Jr. ("Essay [Op. 41] Homage to Barber")
Michael Horwood ("Three Interludes")
Tom Ingoldsby ("They Once Were ...")
Demetrios Katis ("Arrogance & Fear")
Tim Knight ("Elegy for an English Summer")
Paul Kwo ("Ancient Sacrament ...")
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee ("Hok-Lo Mah")
Jonathan Little ("Sacred Prelude" & "Terpsichore")
Kevin McCarter ("Prelude & Excursion")
Brendan McConville ("Tableaux of Katrina")
Paul Lombardi ("Piano Concerto")
Marianella Machado ("Trilce")
Jeff Mangels ("The Trial")
David March ("Nympheas")
Michael Mauldin ("Three Dances from Chaco Canyon")
Margaret Meachem ("Double Helix" for Julius Baker)
Jonathan N. Middleton ("Redwoods Symphony")
Patricia Morehead ("Cityscape")
R.A. Moulds ("Danza")
Eric Marshall Price ("Suite for Strings & Guitar")
Tim Rumsey ("Freedom Fanfare")
Christina Rusnak ("Cloudburst")
David P. Sartor ("Concerto for Orchestra")
Michael Sidney Timpson ("Sneaky")
Daniel P. Wade ("Rush")
Ronald J. Williams ("Semper Fi Fanfare")
David Witmer ("Oscha")
Rain Worthington ("Yet Still Night")
Stephen Yip ("Novella")
Gregory Zduniak ("Symphony #1")