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Yoshiaki Onishi wins Gaudeamus Prize 2011
Yoshiaki Onishi (1981) is the winner of the Gaudeamus Prize 2011. The winner was announced after the closing concert of the Gaudeamus Music Week at Museum Speelklok in Utrecht. From the thirteen nominees the international jury, consisting of Tadeusz Wielecki (Poland), Miguel Azguime (Portugal) and Rozalie Hirs (The Netherlands), unanimously chose for Yoshiaki Onishi from Japan. The prize was awarded by the mayor of Utrecht: Aleid Wolfsen.
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Gaudeamus Music Week moves to Utrecht
In 2011 the Gaudeamus Music Week, the internationally celebrated annual festival for young composers and new music, moved its location from Amsterdam to Utrecht.
On 7 December 2010, Music Center the Netherlands (MCN), organizers of the Music Week for the past three years, and the city of Utrecht signed an agreement that the Gaudeamus Music Week will become an independent foundation. The Gaudeamus Music Week shall continue to be financed by MCN until the end of 2012, during which period the festival will be developed with the support of the city of Utrecht.
The first Utrecht edition will be held from 5 - 11 September 2011 at various locations in the city. The new foundation will be housed at Centrum Muziek XXI, a music center for ensembles on Loevenhoutsedijk which opened its doors in the fall of 2009.
Gaudeamus Music Week
The Gaudeamus Music Week was one of the many activities of the Gaudeamus Foundation, which merged in 2008 with other national music organizations into Music Center the Netherlands, the national institute for music. Because the Gaudeamus Music Week festival does not match with the responsibilities of MCN as established by the Dutch government, MCN decided to discontinue the organization of this festival.
The city of Utrecht offers numerous opportunities for the further development of the Gaudeamus Music Week as an attractive public manifestation, an (international) podium for the development of talent, a shop window for Dutch ensembles, and a junction of international cooperation and exchange.
Gaudeamus Music Week
Each year in the first week of September, the contemporary department at MCN presented a cross section of the latest developments in the global village of contemporary music at this world renowned festival. The major event of the Gaudeamus Music Week is the competition for young composers.
Do you want to know more?
- Read more ubout the Gaudeamus Music Week 2011
- Read more about the history of the Gaudeamus Music Week.
- In the hall of fame you will find all winners of the Music Week since 1957.
