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Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2012 goes to Friedrich Cerha. Composers’ Prizes 2012 go to Luke Bedford, Zeynep Gedizlioglu and Ulrich Alexander Kreppein ….read more

The Dudok Quartet won the first prize at International String Quartet Concours at Radom (Poland) with a program of .G. Bacewicz – String Quartet No. 4 and any 20th or 21st century quartet ….read more

Violin Concerto, a piece by composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, has won the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition ….read more

The overall winner of the 2011 IMC Musical Award is Music Play for Life. In the setting of the 4thIMC World Forum on Music, the International Music Council staged the award-giving ceremony of the IMC Musical Rights Awards on September 27th 2011 ….read more

Henriette Bosmansprijs 2011 went to Nikos Ioakeim for his composition A Road not Taken. Christian Richter received for his work Unable Tera de Marez Oyens Prize and is intended to write a new composition. Leo Smith Ensemble Ruud van Eeten performed the works. ….read more

Results of the 6th Jurgenson Composers Competition 2011 by the jury committee consisting of: Vladimir Tarnopolsky (chairman), Alexander Wustin, Boris Getselev, Igor Dronov, Faraj Karaev, Mark Pekarsky awarded 8 prizes in 3 categories ….read more

Gaudeamus Prize 2011 went to Départ dansé by Yoshiaki Onishi, who lives in North America and was performed Friday night 9/11 by the Nieuw Ensemble. Honorable mentions went to Voices and Echo I by Andrew McIntosh, performed on the Wednesday before by Elisabeth Smalt and Vincent Happ and Tracing the Shadows of Broken Time by Wei-Chieh…

Oboist Ivan PODYOMOV: 2nd prize at ARD Music Competition Munich After an exciting finale of highest musical quality the 25-year-old Russian shared the 2nd prize at the ARD Oboe Competition yesterday ? the 1st prize was not awarded ….read more

The Foundation Destellos announce the results of the Fourth International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music The First Prize was given in ex-æquo to : “Magic” by Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece) and “Golden bowls” by David Hindmarch (United Kingdom) ….read more

The Polar Music Prize was presented today for the 20th year and this year’s Laureates, the American string quartet Kronos Quartet and American poet and musician Patti Smith received prize money to the amount of one million Swedish kronor by his Majesty the King of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall. ….read more