Young musician of Romanian origin Tudor Dominik Maican is a 2007 NFAA ARTS Finalist in Music Composition

Dominik, from Bethesda , Maryland , is a senior at Winston Churchill High School , and a fifth year student at Juilliard School , Pre-College Division. He has received more than 40 international awards and honors for his work. In 2006 alone he received top honors at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory's Competition for Young Composers, Italy 's Cultural Association's 7th Annual International Competition for Solo Instrument (piano), and for the second time, the Juilliard School of Music's Annual Competition for Young Composers. This year Dominik was also named Composer-In-Residence Fellow at Dumbarton Concerts in Washington , DC . The fellowship includes commissions for four works to be premiered by the internationally acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet and the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra. Dominik began playing piano at the age of three, and by five he was composing. He has written five symphonies, numerous instrumental works and a requiem. At Juilliard, Dominik studied with Anthony Abel, Ira Taxin , and Olegna Fuschi . He has also studies with composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany . When Dominik received a $25,000 fellowship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development at the Library of Congress in 2005, he met renowned American composer Milton Babbitt, who invited Dominik to study with him at Juilliard and Princeton . Dominik has received the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for three consecutive years. He was featured on NPR's “From the Top” in 2006 and was NBC Today's Show's “Amazing Child of the Year” in 2001.

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