2006 ISCM-CASH Young Composer Award – Helena Tulve

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 by Lukas Vis. The ISCM-CASH Young Composer Award is 2.500 US$, intended as a commission for a new chamber ensemble work to be premiered in the International Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The award is a joint project of the ISCM and the Composers and Authors Society Hong Kong (CASH). It was inaugurated in 2002, and is presented each year to a selected composer under the age of 35 whose work is featured at the annual ISCM World New Music Festival. The award includes the commission of a new work. Tulve’s ISCM-commissioned work, Where the Two Seas Meet?, received its world premiere in a performance by Ensemble Insomnio, conducted by Ulrich Pöhl at the Korzo Theatre in the Hague, Netherlands on 2 April 2010.

Recording of Sula/Thaw on Soundcloud.