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I wasn't actually very familiar with him, so I looked him up, and what I heard I liked very much; I'm flattered! Thank you all for your comments!

Really nice. Calm and atmospheric for the most part. Personally, I don't mind the add2 chord as an ending, although it's not impossible that an E9 would be better. But the answer is up to whatever your vision is as the composer.

Great work! To me it's quite chilling, perhaps an unconscious association because there has been a good bit of horror movie music similar to the triplets at the beginning. I like pieces that integrate a tone row in a not entirely serial context. I definitely hear Messiaen, as Ken pointed out. I also agree about the importance of the bar lines and time signatures. In my mind, a piece would lack those features only if it had no real rhythm or pulse, but I could be thinking incorrectly.

Nice piece. It's evocative, whichi is what I "ask" for a piece of music.

This was pleasant. Good on you for keeping the motif repeating throughout the movement. I was hoping for a little bit more of a moving line, but for what's here, it's pretty well done. I like your chords (you use M7th chord inversions pretty well) with the exception of the last one, where instead of having an E9, you have an Emadd2, which is kind of an uncertain way to end the piece. Maybe that's what you wanted, but it's kind of uncharacteristic to the rest of it. Pretty good work here!

I'd like to now point out to everyone that we now have our "Competition Hall of Fame" thread open, so the winning work will be placed there; this will continue throughout all subsequent competitions as well.