FLORENCE, Ala., June 4 -- University of North Alabama issued the following news release:

Michelle R. Eubanks

, UNA, at meubanks@una.edu,

256.765.4392

FLORENCE, AL - Dr. Martin Hebel, music composition and theory faculty member at the University of North Alabama, has won Second Prize in the Alexander Zemlinsky Prize for Chamber Music Composition for his piano trio Ashfall.

The Alexander Zemlinsky Prize for Composition, administered by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, or CCM, is one of the most prestigious international competitions for young composers recognizing achievement in musical composition for artists ages 35 and younger. This inaugural competition for the Chamber Music Composition Prize opened in 20...