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GP7 Music Competition: Vote Now!

Hello TPS!

We are so excited to announce that voting for the 2023-24 GP7 Music Competition is now open. This year, we had many incredible entries from the talented musicians of TPS. We’re confident that you’ll enjoy these pieces as much as we did!

We’ve selected a group of seven finalists. Now, it’s your turn to choose the winning entries! After listening to each of these pieces, you can cast your vote using the form below. Voting is open now through March 22nd.

Please note: you must be logged in to Campus to access the form and submit your vote.

Thank you for participating, and happy voting!

Cara Pisani and Isabel Rogers, clay Senior Editors
Sarah Carroll and Ava Dargel, Fotia Chapel Directors


“Sorrowful, Yet Always Rejoicing” by Malachi Gutwein
“De Falla” by Eliana Kovacova
“Rain” by Andrew Sua
“Where I’ll Be” by Josie Thom
“Forest River” by Sam Putnam
“Stuck in Contemplation” by Daniel Baker
“Between Worlds” by David Rodgers

Voting is now closed. Thank you for your interest!

You must be logged into TPS Campus to vote in this competition.

73 Comments

  1. congratulations everyone! All these songs are amazing!

  2. Awesome job everyone!!!! I can’t wait to see which ones make it into GP7!!!

  3. nice job! these are really good

  4. omw its sososos hard to choose

  5. All of you are really talented!! well done!

  6. WHAT THE HECK HOW DO I POSSIBLY CHOOSE AAAHHHH

  7. Congratulations everyone!

  8. I love these! the violin one sounds like a studio ghibli song! dont mind if I save the file.. heh. loved the rest, the beats were pretty awesome and it was kinda hard to choose lol.

  9. wow all these songs are great!!!

  10. they’re all really great! tis hard to pick a favorite. i will say though, david rodger’s composition would definitely wake me up for my 8am classes next year haha

  11. woahh these are all incredible!!! love all of them, gj guys!

  12. i am literally incapable of voting because each of these songs is incredible in its own way

  13. oh gosh I cannot pick! they all sound absolutely amazing! good job to everyone!

  14. SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. Aahhhhh. twas hard to pick.
    btw the “de falla” song is actually called “La Vida Breve-Danse Espagnol” and it’s by a guy named “de falla”

  16. Good Job everybody!!!!!!!!! so hard to pick!!!! 🙂 <3

  17. Finally! Goos Job, y’all!!!

  18. THESE ARE ALL SO AMAZING IT WAS SO HARD TO DECIDE <3 GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!!

  19. Wow! All of the songs were amazing. It was truly hard to choose, but I did. I listened to all of them two times to make a (very hard) decision! May the best song win! (also, i don’t really like songs that repeat themselves when I waiting for my classes to start, just a tip)

  20. Incredible job everyone! I have no idea who to choose but again amazing job!

  21. These are great! It will be a hard choice!

  22. Idk how to choose! This is so hard! Good job! These r rlly good!

  23. Thank youuu alll , I LOVE THESE, you guys really work hard in it.

  24. Bro, this would’ve been soooo hard for me if I hadn’t made the voting round. All of them were soooo good!!!!!!!

  25. some of these really sounds like elevator music or those you hear in the background of a vlog xD. GJ EVERYONE!

  26. WOW so hard to choose…good job everybody!

  27. These are all very impressive and it was hard to pick! I really like Malachi’s. It reminds me a lot of the music from Angela’s Christmas. I would look forward to listening to any of these next year though!

  28. WOW! These were great! Good job all!

  29. All of these are amazing! GJ everyone! So hard to decide

  30. All of these songs were amazing! It was so hard to chose which one to vote for!! Good Job, guys!

  31. WOW It was so hard to choose here! Good job all musicians.

  32. Wowwwwww You guys did so well very good job!!!!!!

  33. good job everyone! this song are sooo nice…

  34. I got to say between worlds was the best but they were all good

  35. WOW! Good job everyone! We have so many talented musicians here!!

  36. Amazing songs they are all awesome!

  37. Good job ya’ll! They were all incredible! But I did pick my favorite!!!

  38. these are all so great! I’ll probably save them all. These pieces are all so suitable to listen to when I’m studying 🙂

  39. why does Forest River sound like a song from wii sports? XD

  40. Such a hard choice! GJ everyone!!

  41. Wow these are so good. My brain is exploding they are that good. Congrats!!

  42. I had to listen to them like 3 different times each. it was sooo hard.

  43. Great job everyone!! I loved listening to all of these!! They are all so good!

  44. Vote for Sam Putnam’s “Forest River”! Your vote is very much appreciated!

  45. Josie Thom, I looooooovvveee your song, it is sooo good. I love it! Great Job!

  46. Everyone did an AMAZING job!

  47. They are all good they should all be added

  48. It is impossible to choose any song unless you have a 7-sided coin…and even then you will have second thoughts and try to flip the coin again…

  49. stuck in contemplation was good and between worlds was good too

  50. Everyone did an amazing job!!! Good luck! <3

  51. All of you did so well!! I had a hard time picking!!! I finally picked one

  52. GUYS! vote for Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing! We need more calm music in GP7 xD. Great job everyone!!

  53. Oh my goodness you guys I never knew deciding music was that hard….i had to listen to them all several times to decide!!! Awesome job!!! I wish we could vote twice, or three times…