Local Student Wins 1st at Texas Music Teachers Association Composition Contest
May 7, 2010 – Katy, Texas – Daniel Silliman has been awarded First Place in the High School Ensemble division of the Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA) Composition Contest. He will be honored for this achievement at the upcoming TMTA Convention, to be held June 10-14 at the Arlington Convention Center in Arlington, Texas. The sixteen-year-old studies piano and composition with Tobin Wright and is currently completing his junior year at Taylor High School. Silliman was also awarded the American Festival for the Arts/Accessible Contemporary Music Young Composer’s Prize, which entailed a public performance of his composition at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, last November. Please mention you found this on www.KatyMagazine.com.
