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Adam Sovkoplas wins 2005 CFAMC Scholarship
Adam Sovkoplas, a Masters student in composition at Sam Houston State University is the recipient of the 2005 Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers Scholarships. The purpose of the annual award is to recognize and support Christian student composers who demonstrate both excellence in their Christian testimony and achievement and potential in art music composition. Sovkoplas received a $1000 award, to be used for academic or summer study in composition. The judges included CFAMC Regional Events Director Donald M. Wilson, retired Professor of Composition at Bowling Green State University, CFAMC Board Member Mark Chambers, doctoral candidate in composition at the University of Alabama and music leader at Westminster Reformed PCA in Suffolk, Virginia, and CFAMC founder and President Mark Hijleh, Professor of Composition and Conducting at Houghton College.
Adam Sovkoplas was born in Brownsville, Texas, in 1982. After enrolling at the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) in 2000, he became the school’s very first music theory/composition major in 2002. In 2003, Sovkoplas was awarded an Alpha Chi Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship for his work 9-11. Other of his compositions have been featured on two UTB recitals, and in concert by the UTB wind ensemble. Sovkoplas is currently completing the first year in the Masters program at Sam Houston State.
Mr. Sovkoplas notes, “Though not everything I write is religious, it is still influenced by my religion. My devotion to God and my devotion to the art of musical composition are distinct but intertwined aspects of my being. Musical composition is both my gift from God and my gift to God, and I will praise Him with all the passion he has given me in my music and through my music.”