Toonzetters announces Ten Best Works

A professional jury of international festival programmers has made the selection for Toonzetters 2010. The best work of 2009 will be awarded this August with the Buma Toonzetters Prize which includes € 10,000.

A large number of works premiered in 2009 were submitted and the following compositions have been nominated:

• Spaces of Blank – Michel van der Aa
• Verdichtingen – Michel van der Aa
• Nr. 44 (Diary Pieces) – Richard Ayres
• Koranfragment – Wilbert Bulsink
• La vida breve (The brief life) – Ezequiel Menalled
• JungGa – Seung-Ah
• Oh White Eagle – Martijn Padding
• Kringen – Bart Spaan
• Preludio all’Infinito – Diderik Wagenaar
• Viaggio Interiore (Awakenings of Alice) – Aliona Yurtsevich

During the festival Toonzetters 2010 these ten best new compositions from 2009 will be presented. Toonzetters takes place on August 28 & 29 in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam

Members of the jury this year are:

• Lucas Vis (dirigent, juryvoorzitter)
• Mark Delaere (Transit, Leuven, België)
• David Pay (Music on Main, Vancouver, Canada)
• Rainer Pöllmann (Ultraschall, Berlijn, Duitsland)
• Massimo Simonini (Angelica Festival, Bologna, Italië)

Toonzetters is organised by Buma Cultuur, Music Center the Netherlands and the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.