Marvel Jem Roth Awarded 2024 G. Schirmer Prize

Congratulations to 2023–24 Luna Lab fellow Marvel Jem Roth, who was just awarded the 2024 G. Schirmer Prize for Luna Composition Lab for her work lens.

Inaugurated in 2019, G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers, part of the Wise Music Group, awards the G. Schirmer Prize each year to a Luna Lab fellow. It offers access to publishing industry professionals and a cash prize, as well as educational mentoring and networking opportunities.

“We’re thrilled that Marvel Jem Roth has been chosen as the recipient of the 2024 Schirmer Prize. Her work lens, for string quartet and electronics, is an innovative and fresh work that combines exciting rhythmic passages, extended techniques, manipulated electronics, and surprising textures, all resulting in a gorgeously original compositional voice. We’re sure that Marvel will continue to thrive in her compositional career and we’re excited to be with her at its very beginning.” —Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid

Watch the world premiere of lens, performed by Kronos Quartet

“Los Angeles. Home of Hollywood and tabloids. Home to Malibu waves, to rare rain, to fire, earthquakes, to helicopters. lens was written encapsulating what Los Angeles has meant to me as a second-generation Angeleno. This work in a way is a “lens” into my life, driving from the Santa Monica Mountains to Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the ways in which I have seen my life, my home, be distorted through media.” – Marvel Jem Roth

Learn more about Marvel and the G. Schirmer Prize