Pedro Lima (b. 1994 in Braga) has been awarded the 2025 ISCM Young Composer Award for his postmodern composition You Should (Should!) Be Dancing scored for chamber ensemble with electronics which received its world premiere performance by the Remix Ensemble of Porto’s Casa da Música under the direction of Ilan Volkov during the 2025 ISCM World New Music Days in Portugal.

Samuel Hvozdík (b. 1993 in Slovakia) has been awarded the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award for his organ composition Magma which was performed by Swedish organist Hans Hellsten in the Fuglafjarðar Kirkja in Fuglafjørður during the 2024 ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. The award is a commission to write a new…

Swedish-born Norwegian-based composer Maja Linderoth (b. 1989) was named the winner of the 2022 ISCM Young Composer Award during the 2022 ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand for her inventive and challenging Sonata form denatured prose (2014) for unaccompanied youth choir. This award, which was initiated in 2002 (and since 2013 has been co-sponsored by Music…

Madli Marje Gildemann Sink (b. 1994 in Estonia) has been awarded the 2023 ISCM Young Composer Award for her 2020 composition Osmosis for violin, viola, cello, and piano which was performed during the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa during an afternoon concert at the Morris Isaacson Centre for Music in Soweto…

Thomas Adès (b. 1971 in London) received the 2002 ISCM Young Composer Award for his string quartet Arcadiana which was performed on 15 October 2002 by Ensemble Antipodes at Hong Kong’s City Hall Concert Hall during the 2002 ISCM World Music Days. Renowned as both composer and performer, Adès works regularly with the world’s leading…

Bieniek represented Australia at the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World Music Days festival in 2003, held in Slovenia, where his clarinet solo Fleshold: at the crossing over was awarded the international ISCM-CASH Young Composer Award and a commission to write a work for the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2005. (Bieniek’s commissioned work, Uninhabited…

Diana Rotaru (1981, Romania) received the Prize for Shakti (or Sakti) concerto for saxophone and orchestra performed on October 27 by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. The 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 Music Days. The award consists of a special…

Nicholas Casswell wins the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2007Nicholas Casswell (1974, UK) received the Prize for Triplicity, performed on November 28 by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta conducted by Marcel Wengler during the ISCM-ACL World Music Days 2007 which took place from 22nd November to 2nd December in Hong Kong. For the sixth time the International Society for…

On 12 October 2014, at the final concert of the ISCM World Music Days in Wrocław, Poland, the winner of the 2014 ISCM Young Composer Award (supported by Music on Main) was announced. It is the aim of the ISCM to promote exposure, research, and performance of contemporary music on an international scale, and to…

At the ISCM World New Music Festival from 14 to 29 July 2006 in Stuttgart, the 2006 ISCM-CASH Young Composer Award was awarded to Helena Tulve (b. 1972, Estonia). She received the prize for Sula (Thaw) for large orchestra and didgeridoo, a composition performed on July 14 by the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted…