STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., March 29 — Roger Wesby, associate professor of music at Wagner College, today announced that Kathleen Pactong, a junior arts administration major from Stormville, N.Y., had won the first Musical Composition Contest conducted in association with the Stanley Drama Award program.
Pactong’s work, “Three Characters,” was written for oboe, clarinet and piano. The composition will be premiered on April 16 during the Stanley Drama Award ceremony at the Lambs Club on West 59th Street in Manhattan, and a recording of the work will be accessible for the next year on the Stanley Drama Award Web site.
“Three Musicians,” a composition for two flutes and oboe by senior music major Megan Winkler, was given an honorable mention.
Both Pactong and Winkler are composition students of Barbara Wesby. Their works, along with those of other composition students, will be performed in a special Composition Recital in Wagner College’s Campus Hall Music Performance Center on Saturday, May 5 at 4 p.m.
The panel of judges for the composition competition consisted of: Lauren Patsos ’07, music major; Dorian Lake ’02, alumnus; Prof. Ernie Jackson ’87, alumnus and adjunct professor, and Prof. Wesby.
The Stanley Drama Award composition contest was established and designed by Wesby and associate arts administration professor Todd Price. They intend to continue holding the contest annually.
