{"id":21851,"date":"2026-06-24T08:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:44:49","slug":"elizabethtown-college-music-therapy-alumnus-receives-statewide-composition-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/elizabethtown-college-music-therapy-alumnus-receives-statewide-composition-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Music Therapy Alumnus Receives Statewide Composition Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Music Therapy alumnus Connor Deah \u201926 received second place in the Young Artist category of the 2026 Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association (PMTA) Keystone Composition Competition<\/a> for his original composition.<\/p>\n

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Connor Deah ’26<\/p><\/div>\n

Deah\u2019s composition, \u201cBright, Shining Joy,\u201d was created as part of his Honors in the Discipline project, developed under the mentorship of Elizabethtown College Professor of Music, Justin Badgerow. Deah also studied music composition under James Haines, Professor of Music Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt brings me great joy to be able to not only make music, but to be able to share it with others and give back to something that has given so much to me,\u201d Deah said. \u201cI want to extend a special thanks to Dr. Badgerow, Dr. Haines, and Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet and Saxophone Faith Shiffer for their efforts in helping me to write and configure this work.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a high-placing competitor, Deah has been invited to showcase his composition at the Dorothy Sutton Performance Festival Showcase Recital<\/a> on Nov. 7 through 8 at Etown\u2019s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The showcase will bring together talented student musicians from across the commonwealth to perform their original works.<\/p>\n

The PMTA is an annual competition that recognizes musical excellence among young Pennsylvania-based composers. Applicants were required to submit an audio recording of their original composition, as well as a fully realized score and detailed manuscript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Music Therapy alumnus Connor Deah \u201926 received second place in the Young Artist category of the 2026 Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association (PMTA) Keystone Composition Competition for his original composition. Deah\u2019s composition, \u201cBright, Shining Joy,\u201d was created as part of his Honors in the Discipline project, developed under the mentorship of Elizabethtown College Professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":21853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,775],"tags":[197,1350,1433],"class_list":["post-21851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-music","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21859,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions\/21859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}