Results of competitions
- Seung-Ah Oh received Sunday August 29th the Buma Toonzetters Prize for her composition JungGa qualified as the best Dutch Jcomposition of 2009 and was awarded in Music aan 't IJ in the Third Edition of Toonzetters Festival. For the first time the SENA Performers Prize was awarded to Joel Bons, artistic director of the New Ensemble, which performed JungGa composition. ....read more
- Malle Maltis (Estonia) with "Chameleon chant" (for violin and live-electronics) performed by Barbara Lüneburg and the electronic part by Tammo Sumera wins the 3rd ECPNM European Competition for Live-Electronic Music Projects. An international jury selected 5 projects; on 21 August they were premiered during the Avantgarde Tirol festival in Rattenberg-am-Inn, Austria. ....read more
- The winner of the 2010 Pierrot Lunaire International Composition Competition: First prize for "Moving Image" for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano by Teo Syjuco (*1981, Singapore ....read more
- The winner of the 31st Irino Prize for Chamber-Orchestral Composition, 2010 is Yair Klartag (1985 . born in Israel) with "Bipolar Disorder" (13' 30'') ....read more
- Afterwards the concert at 9 October- 9 pm. award ceremony: Andrzej-Dobrowolski-composition award Land Steiermark 2010 for Klaus Lang and Andrzej-Dobrowolski-scholarship Land Steiermark 2010 for Peter Jakober. ....read more
- The Polar Music Prize 2010 is being awarded to Italian composer, arranger and conductor Ennio Morricone. ....read more
- The 2011 Salzburg Music Prize will be awarded to Friedrich Cerha. The award, with its prize money of EUR 60,000, will be presented to the composer at a concert during the Salzburg Biennale 2011. ....read more
- Works selected for IAWM's 2010 Annual Concert will be performed in the annual concert, "IAWM's 2010 Annual Concert: An Acousmatic Evening," which will take place in Lyon, France, on Oct. 22, 2010, in the Musée des moulages de l'Université de Lyon II, in conjunction with the Music Season 10/11 of Grame, National Center for Music Creation ....read more
- B. Maderna 2010, I edition -awarded the following prizes: o1th prize: TAINA' by Antonio Giacometti, o2nd prize: GLI GNOMI by Federico Cumar, o3rd prize: TERRA MADRE by Walter Stefano Bonadè ....read more
- Kranichstein Musikpreis 2010 is awarded to Stefan Prins (Composition / Belgium) and flutist Matteo Cesari (Interpretation / Italy). At the end of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. ....read more
- The winner of the 31st Irino Prize for Chamber-Orchestral Composition, 2010 is Yair Klartag (1985 . born in Israel) with "Bipolar Disorder" (13' 30'') ....read more
- Concours International De Composition Acousmatique Metamorphoses Results 2010 Un verre n'est pas un verre by Adam Basanta (Canada) and the 8 finalists category youger thans 50 and Labyrinth by Robert Ratcliffe (UK) as most impressive work for " Espace du son " ....read more
- Sascha Lino Lemke (1976, Germany) has been awarded the Paul Hindemith-Preis 2010 ....read more
- Ties Mellema receives The Dutch Music Prize on November 14th, Eindhoven, the Philipszaal, the highest award a Dutch musician can receive from the state: Mellema studied with Anner Bijlsma and took lessons with a.o. Kenny Werner, Lucas Vis, Brian Pollard, Lieuwe Visser and Paquito d'Rivera ...read more
- American composer John Luther Adams has been named the 2010 winner of the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The announcement was made today (April 29) by the Northwestern University Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music. ....read more
- Jennifer Higdon in an interview that appears on the Web page of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). Higdon has been named the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her for Violin Concerto. Only two months earlier, Higdon had been awarded a Grammy Award in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Percussion Concerto ....read more
- Concours International De Composition Acousmatique Metamorphoses Results 2010 Un verre n'est pas un verre by Adam Basanta (Canada) and Les 8 finalists category youger thans 50 and Labyrinth by Robert Ratcliffe (UK) as most impressive work for " Espace du son " ....read more
- The Cypriot composer Marios Joannou Elia is the winner (First Prize) of the Counterpoint international composition competition "Luciano Berio" 2010 in New York. Marco Reghezza receives the Second Prize and David Sherr the Honorable Mention. ...read more
- Brandenburg Composers' Prize is awarded to Carsten Hennig, (Germany); the "Da Capo-Prize" is awarded to Valery Voronov (Russia), for his symphonic poem "Marmor" and toAleksandra Zabegaeva (Russia) for her symphonic poem "Echo of Byzantium" ...read more
- 2010/06/23 - Live broadcast 7pm. Cristóbal Halffter wins the award for a body of work that has contributed to the idea of a European contemporary music. Halffter has also played an instrumental role in reintroducing Spanish music into the mainstream of contemporary music. ...read more
- Kala Pierson of New York City, N.Y., has been named to receive the second Ruth Anderson Prize for Singing Stones a series of three different installations at stone sculptures in Vienna, Munich, and Amsterdam. Honorable mention goes to Naomi Luci lle Kagaya and Stephanie Cheng Smith for Concert Earth, an interactive multimedia performance work ...read more
- The winner of the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2010 is Katia Beaugeais (Australia) for the work Sound Box (2008) for soprano saxophone. This award was inaugurated in 2002 and is presented each year to a selected composer under 35 whose work is featured in the annual ISCM World New Music Days Festival. The 2010 award consists of a special commission of €2000 to write a new work to be premiered at an international event in 2011. ...read more
- Sylvia Maessen is winner of the composition competition with NOVA ZEMBLA a historic oratorium for soprano, tenor, bariton, mixed choirr and orchestra on the occasion of 25 years RBO Sinfonia: ...read more
- Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin has won the 16th Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition. He also receives both prizes of the Belgian public : the Klara-Canvasprijs (VRT) and the Prix Musiq'3 (RTBF). Each performance is still available as VOD, until 15 September 2010. ...read more
- Arvo Pärt will receive a lifetime achievement award on 7 june at the 38th International Istanbul Music Festival this year. A concert paying tribute to the composer will include the world première of his new work: Adam's Lament for choir and orchestra. The work emerged from a co-commission by two European Capitals of Culture - Istanbul 2010 and Tallinn 2011 ....read more
- The ECPNM - European Conference of Promoters of New Music announces the 5 finalists for the 3rd European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects 2010 and will be premiered at a concert on 21 August 2010 during the festival "Avantgarde Tirol" in Rattenberg, Austria ....read more
- "Au clair de la lune", a composition for 4-part vocal ensemble and surround electronics by Fred Momotenko, is greatly valued by the international jury from Free Sounds Organisation, Linux Audio Organisation, Muziekinstituut MultiMedia (MiMM), Utrecht School of the Arts and Open Source Organisation and it has awarded the second price of the "150-Years-of-Music-Technology Composition Competition". ....read more
- On April 12, 2010, composer Jennifer Higdon was named the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music ....read more
- EMCY is the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth: a network of around sixty national and international music competitions for young people across Europe. ....read more
- Rob Zuidam has been awarded the Kees van Baaren-Prize 2010 for his opera Rage d'amours. Zuidam will receive the prize later this year in The Hague Around this occasion, the Residentie Orchestra and singers of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague will give several performances of Rage d'amours ....read more
- Die österreichische Komponistin Olga Neuwirth, Großen Österreichischen Staatspreis 2010 und den Louis Spohr Musikpreis der Stadt Braunschweig, Die Preisverleihung findet am 16. Mai in der Braunschweiger Stadthalle statt. ....read more
- ASCAP Names 37 Recipients of the 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards at The Times Center in New York City on May 27, 2010 ....read more
- Results of The call for projects issued by temp'óra in February 2009 Carsten Hennig commissioned by ensemble United Berlin (Berlin, Germany) , Daniel Sprintz Todros by ensemble XX-XXI (Badajoz, Spain), Nicolas Tzortzis by ensemble Proxima Centauri (Bordeaux, France) ....read more
- Results of The call for projects issued by temp'óra in February 2009 Carsten Hennig commissioned by ensemble United Berlin (Berlin, Germany) , Daniel Sprintz Todros by ensemble XX-XXI (Badajoz, Spain), Nicolas Tzortzis by ensemble Proxima Centauri (Bordeaux, France) ....read more
- Young Composers Meeting 2010 results Commission for Orgelpark - Amsterdam - Giuliano Bracci (Italië); for YCM Christiaan Richter (Nederland); for NJO, for the Nederlandse Orkest- en Ensemble-Academie - Nikos Ioakeim (Griekenland) and for orkest de ereprijs - Trevor Grahl (Canada) to be performed during the Gaudeamus Music Week 2010 ...read more
- The jury of the Gaudeamus Music Week 2010, consisting of Helena Tulve (Estonia), Donnacha Dennehy (Ireland), and Roderik de Man (The Netherlands), has nominated 21 compositions for the Gaudeamus Prize 2010. These compositions, selected from more than 400 entries, will be performed in the Gaudeamus Music Week, which will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from September 6 to 12, 2010. ...read more
- The National Association of Composers, USA announce the results of the 2009 Young Composers Competition: Andrew Allen, for his Keichu's Wheel; Ryan Carter for his 20 (or so) Variations; Honorable Mention:Mark Popeney for his Channels for string quartet. ) ....read more
- Quera by Sixto Manuel Herrero Rodes, Raga by Hikari Kiyama (also the Publics'Prize), Japan , STRICHVIER mal 5 by Tim Kienecker, awarde by Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Musik in Mönchengladbach/Ensemblia Festival ....read more
- The young Chinese composer Zhenzhen Zhang (China)with her work "Xiang" won the first prize in the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2009. The Luxembourg Sinfonietta, under its conductor Marcel Wengler, gave the first performances 18th October 2009 during the final round. Other compositions were by Pui-shan Cheung (Hong Kong), Miguel Farias (Chile), Takahiro Sakuma (Japan) ....read more
- Professor Inho Park, the president of ISCM Korea, was awarded the 27th Korean National Composers' Prize with Grand prix and the Composition Prize of the 3rd Daewon Music Award hosted by the Daewon Cultural Foundation. Sukhi Kang who is honorary member of ISCM and Unsuk Chin had received the two previous Daewon Composition Prizes. ....read more
- Results of the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2009 by the National Academy of Music, in conjunction with the Municipal Conservatories of Neapolis and Sykies in Greece ....read more
- Pianist Louise Bessette was honored to receive two "Special Awards": Performer of the Year (accompanied by a prize of $5000 from the Canada Council for the Arts) and "Musical Event of the Year" for Automne Messiaen 2008 ....read more
- Dream Variations II for symphony orchestra by Musheng Chen (China) has won the Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition for Composing 2009 Athens, Greece ...read more
- Cristian Marina is the latest recipient of the Carin Malmlof-Forssling Composition Prize of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. 30th of November. read more...
- Prize Winners of Competition Destellos / Ganadores del segundo Concurso de Composicion Destellos Diana Simpson (Inglaterra) por su obra "Papyrus" y Chikashi Miyama (Japan) por el audiovisual "Piano Chimera". read more...
- This year's winner of the British Composers' Award in the category of Instrumental Solo or Duo is Thomas Simaku ...read more
- Klas Torstensson with his work Polarhavet awarded by the Swedish Music Publishers Association (The Swedish MPA's Awards) in thecategory of large ensemble/opera ...read more
- Composer Louis Andriessen is Composer of the Year announced by Musical America. Musician of the Year is Riccardo Muti, instrumentalist Joshua Bell and Elina Garanca; 14 December 2009 ceremony at Lincoln Center(New York)...read more
- For the category of Arts and Philosophy of the 2009 Kyoto Prize, Mr. Pierre Boulez (age 84, France) was selected as a composer, has greatly contributed to the contemporary music with his innovative works by advancing the musical style of serialism and then by utilizing electroacoustic technique ...read more
- The winners of the 2009 Paul Lowin Prizes were announced on 30 October 2009 at a special ceremony at The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House. The judges voted Mary Finsterer the winner of the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for her work In Praise of Darkness, while Andrew Schultz won the $15,000 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize for his work To the evening star. ...read more
- The results of temp'óra call for projects are online, ...read more
- The young Chinese composer Zhenzhen Zhang with her work Xiang won the first prize in the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2009 ...read more
- Ned McGowen winner of the Harvey Gaul Competition from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble in the USA. ...read more
- The winners of the 2009 British Composer Awards are announced at the Law Society, London on Tuesday 1 December and are presented by BASCA and sponsored by PRS for Music. In association with BBC Radio 3, the event will be broadcast in "Performance on 3" on Wednesday 2nd December at 7pm. ...read more
- Alex Nowitz (Germany) with "Minotaurus" for singer/performer, live-electronic gestural controllers wins the 2nd ECPNM European Competition for Live-Electronic Music Projects ...read more
- Ted Hearne received the Gaudeamus Prize 2009 for Katrina Ballads, performed on September 10, 2009 at the Conservatory of Amsterdam by `the ereprijs with Wim Boerman conducting and Hearne himself as vocal soloist and an honourable mention went to Toru Nakatani (Japan, 1979) for 16_1/64_1 ...read more
- Three prizes were presented on occasion of the Project Young Composers (PJC) by the Holland Symfonia during the final concert of the Gaudeamus Music Week; the PJC prize (€ 4,000) went to Matthias Kranebitter and both the PJC Incentive prize and PJC Audience Prize (each € 1,000) went to Janco Verduin...read more
- Prize Winners of the 19th International Piano Competition "Rome 2009" Chopin Prize - Soloists born since 1975 in Rome ...read more
- 2009/10/10 results of temp'óra call for projects, Carsten Hennig , Daniel Sprintz Todros, Nicolas Tzortzis will receive €1000 for there pieces commissioned by ensemble Proxima Centauri (Bordeaux, France) ...read more
- 2009/10/15 "Papyrus" by Diana Simpson (United Kingdom) winner of the Second International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music by The Foundation Destellos ...read more
- 2009/10/15 Joachim F.W. Schneider (Germany)with Drei Orchesterstücke winner of the II International Uuno Klami Composition Competition ...read more
- Giovanni Enrico Lo Curto Winner of the 30th Irino Prize for Chamber music 2009 Mentions Toru Nakatani and Fabian Svensson ...read more
- Results of international nomination committees for The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is one of the most internationally renowned scholarship programs ...read more
- Mr. Pierre Boulez one of the laureates (Arts and Philosophy) of the 2009 Kyoto Prize by the Inamori Foundation is available ....read more
- Johannes Maria Staud receives the Emil-Berlanda-Preis 2009...read more
- Results of the 2nd International Composition Competition "Sond'Ar-te 2009 - Chamber Music with Electronics" announced by Miso Music Portugal and the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble ....read more
- Results of the 2009 International Rostrum of Composers: First Harmonium Concerto (2008) for harmonium and orchestra by Dutch composer Martijn PADDING (born 1956) and Aquarelle (2007) for mixed choir by young Lithuanian composer Juste JANULYTE (born 1982) are the works selected by radio music producers participating in the 56th International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) held at the Maison de Radio France, June 8 to 12, 2009. ....read more<//a></><//><//a>
- L'ARSENALE WANTS YOU! four composers those will collaborate with the musicians of Ensemble L'arsenale and the flutist Mario Caroli has been selected ....read more
- Christopher Parkening and Pepperdine University today announced the winner of the second triennial Parkening International Guitar Competition, Malibu, Calif.U.S.A. Emanuele Buono, 21, of Italy ....read more<//a></><//><//a>
- Ray Chen has won the The Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2009 ....read more
- Winners Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2008 Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation ...read more
- ISCM Poland announced the results of the Kazimierz Serocki 11th International Composers' Competition 2008 read more...
- 2009/08/18 Tiroler composer Johannes Maria Staud receives the Paul Hindemith-Preis 2009 ...read more
- 2009/09/12 Premiere of "cvetic, kucica.../ la lugubre gondola" by Marko Nikodijevic winner of the Komponistenpreises der 3. Brandenburger Biennale ...read more
- 2009/10/13 announcement nominations for the XLIIIe PRIX de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco a.o. Louis Andriessen ...read more
- 2009/05/8 II International Uuno Klami Composition Competition (finalists)....read more
- 2009/10/04 Concert with Six nominations for the 2nd European competition for live-electronic music projects organized by the ECPNM and will be premiered in Gothenburg during the ISCM World New Music Days 2009 in Sweden ...read more
- 2009/09/12 Ted Hearne wins with Katrina Ballads, a composition performed on September 10 at the Conservatory of Amsterdam by the ensemble ‘de ereprijs’ the Gaudeamus Prize 2009 during the International Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdan, 7-12 september 2009 ...read more
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