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Konstantin Heuer wins Gaudeamus Prize 2012

Konstantin Heuer (1989) from Germany is the winner of the Gaudeamus Prize 2012 unanimously chosen by the international jury consisting of Martijn Padding (NL), Annie Gosfield (USA) and Christopher Butterfield (CAN) Alaska – for two speakers, soprano, tenor, bass, six violins, viola, cello and electronics – by Heuer was performed on Tuesday by VocaalLAB and…

Thirteen compositions have been shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize 2013

Thirteen compositions have been shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize 2013. Over 200 composers under the age of 30, hailing from 29 different countries, entered a composition in hopes of winning this much sought-after award. Now the jury, consisting of Peter Adriaansz (NL), Annelies van Parys (BE), and Dmitri Kourliandski (RU) has made its selection. At the…

Wen Liu winner of Ö1 talents Market Composition Prize 2012

Winner of Ö1 talents Market Composition Prize 2012, Wen Liu of the Vienna Conservatory. The young musician from China, born 1988, studied composition with Wolfgang Liebhart. The junior-promotion is worth 10,000 euros and is supported by the Austrian National Bank (OeNB)….read more

Julia Hanadi Al Abed (France), Alejandro Montes De Oca (Mexique), Sam Salem (Royaume Uni) winners of the 10th Luc Ferrari COmpetition

Julia Hanadi Al Abed (France), Alejandro Montes De Oca (Mexique), Sam Salem (Royaume Uni) The 10th anniversary of the Luc Ferrari Competition proposes the candidates to compose a ” Hörspiel ” around the word ” Correspondance ” with maximum freedom. This inventive form of composition allows narration as much as abstraction, and the most minimalistic…

Manuella Blackburn wins 7th Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition

The 7th Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition, organized by Musiques et Recherches and held in occasion of the 19th International Acousmatic Festival Espace du Son has attributed the following prizes: First prize: Manuella Blackburn – Switched on Prize of the Public: Orestis Karamanlis – Toys ….read more

Finalists of Forme Uniche 2012

Finalists of Forme Uniche 2012: Ewan Campbell (United Kingdom) Matteo Casula (Italy), Kazue Kaku (Korea) , Giulia Lorusso (Italy), Samuel Messer (United Kingdom), Sandro Mungianu (Italy), Mari Ohno (Japan), Sebastian Phlox (Australia) , Iran Sanazadeh (Iran / Australia), Tania Sikelianou (Greece), ….read more

ISCM WMD 2014 Call for Works

Deadline for the ISCM World Music Days 2014 was June 30, 2012. ISCM Polish Section is organizing The ISCM World Music Days in Wroclaw from 3rd to 12th of October, 2014. The Call for Scores had 22 categories in which multimedia and electronics are possible. ….read more

Friedrich Cerha awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation honours Friedrich Cerha with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, often called the “Nobel Prize for Music”. Cerha will receive the prestigious award at a musical ceremony in Munich at the Cuvilliés Theatre on 22 June 2012 ….read more

José Javier Torres Maldonado wins 5th Brandenburg Biennial Composition Award

The jury of the 5th Brandenburg Biennial on Tuesday 19th of June at 7 p.m. assigned the Komponistenpreis award to Ms Ying Wang (Shanghai/Cologne) and the “da capo” prize to Mr José Javier Torres Maldonado (Mexico/Italy). ….read more

Toru Takemitsu Award 2012 won by Federico Gardella and Ioannis Angelakis

Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2012 1st Prize Federico Gardella (Italy) Mano d’erba, per orchestra and Ioannis Angelakis (Greece) une œuvre pour l’écho des rêves (II), pour orchestre and 2 3rd Prizes Masato Kimura (Japan) I do hope to sleep in the silent universe and Shiori Usui (Japan) WARAI ….read more