Buch is finalist in worldwide competition.

Buch is finalist in worldwide competition. Brian Buch, who won first prize in the 2007 MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National AssociationMTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee)Young ArtistsComposition Competition, has been named one of the finalists in the 2007Queen Elisabeth Composition Competition in Brussels, Belgium. Buch, a senior at Indiana University Indiana University,main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. in Bloomington, Indiana, isthe son of Bruce and Hedy Buch. A native of Westborough, Massachusetts,he has been studying composition for four years under Alia Cohen cohenor kohen(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. . Buch's piece, "Prayer for an Unnamed Grave," was oneof five scores selected from 165 compositions on five continents. At 22,Buch is the youngest finalist and the only composer from the westernhemisphere. The other finalists are from China, Italy, France and Spain. The Queen Elisabeth Competition, a founding member of the WorldFederation of International Music Competitions The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that maintains a network of the internationally recognized organisations that aim to discover the most promising young talents in classical music through public , has been considered oneof the most prestigious in the world since its founding. For more information, visit http://newsinfo.iu.edu.