{"id":1055,"date":"2025-11-22T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:09:47","slug":"american-prize-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/22\/american-prize-third-place\/","title":{"rendered":"American Prize &#8211; Third Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oliver was named Third Place for the 2025 American Prize Charles Ives Award, which recognizes excellence in instrumental chamber music. The honor recognizes Oliver&#8217;s trio <em>Siglufjo\u0308r\u00f0ur,<\/em> scored for horn, cello and piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Iceland\u2019s northernmost town, is tucked in a narrow fjord, with towering mountains that dive straight into the sea. Oliver&#8217;s piece is based on a traditional melody he encountered at Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur\u2019s Folk Music Centre. &#8220;I was particular moved by a short song called <em>Bl\u00e1stjarnan \u00fe\u00f3tt skarti sk\u00e6r<\/em>,&#8221; shares Oliver.\u201d &#8220;This hauntingly beautiful melody was collected by ethnomusicologist Benedikt J\u00f3nsson (1846-1939) in northern Iceland. Bl\u00e1stjarnan is the blue star Vega.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Siglufjo\u0308r\u00f0ur by Oliver Caplan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EKzJ3fzISRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver was named Third Place for the 2025 American Prize Charles Ives Award, which recognizes excellence in instrumental chamber music. The honor recognizes Oliver&#8217;s trio Siglufjo\u0308r\u00f0ur, scored for horn, cello and piano. Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Iceland\u2019s northernmost town, is tucked in a narrow fjord, with towering mountains that dive straight into the sea. Oliver&#8217;s piece is based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}