Dance (2008). Ilya Demutsky

Michael Kaulkin writes about judging a composition contest at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music:

It was interesting that the winning piece was so off-the-charts good that the three of us agreed on it hands-down, and there was very little discussion needed. My congratulations to student composer Ilya Demutsky for his a cappella setting of the Lorca poem “Dance”, which was well thought-out, well written for voices and also just plain entertaining.

Here's a video of Demutsky's electronic piece Black Square: