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I hate college, It made me completely forget about these awards, oh well. It was a huge honor to be nominated for my Viola Concerto, I litterally went "aww" out loud when I read it on the nominated list. Congrats to Austenite and Sojar Voglar, you both deserve it, your talent and support for this community absolutely amazes me, you both are fantastic composers and one day, when I become a band director and I'm talking to my students while rehearsing your pieces, i'll be like "yeah, I knew Sojar Voglar and Austenite, yeah, be amazed" and they'll all look at me as if I said I met Obama and Clinton. Great job, I look forward to see what you two will contribute this year! And congrats to everyone else as well XD congrats to everyone in this forum, congrats to the whole world because why not!

I personally would like Austenite to make a strong goodbye wave to the Tchaikovsky's shadow in his music and find more personal language, even if his approach remains in major-minor tonality system. The first movement of Serenade shows promise, for example. He is an excellent orchestrator and his form is standing solid. Well, at least I got myself an "old fart" reward. :)