NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 – The ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams today announced the recipients of the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.

“For more than four decades, the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards have recognized some of the best up-and-coming concert music composers and it is a thrill to play a part in their developing careers,” said The ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams. “We congratulate all of our award recipients and look forward to their future achievements.”

The 2023 Morton Gould Young Composer Award recipients are listed below:

Liam Cummins of New York, NY (Mansfield, OH); Sophia Kunxu Dou of NY; Grace Ann Lee of Ann Arbor, MI (Seoul, South Korea); Jacky Jiaqi Liu of New York, NY (Beijing, China); Reid Merzbacher of Brooklyn, NY (Cambridge, MA); Marc Migó of New York, NY (Barcelona, Spain); Yash Paz of New York, NY (Princeton, NJ); Alyssa Regent of New York, NY (Guadeloupe); Dorian Tabb of NY; Ziyi Tao of Forest Hills, NY (Beijing, China);  Alex Tedrow of Washington, DC (Shoals, IN); Isabelle Tseng of Gainesville, FL; Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg of Tenafly, NJ; Yiqi Xue of Kansas City, MO (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China); Christian A. Yom of NY; and Charlie Zhong of MA.