2012 ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award – Eric Nathan

The American composer Eric Nathan (b. 1983) has won the 2012 ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award for Walls of Light. The work for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and percussion was performed as part of the 2012 ISCM World Music Days in Belgium.

For a number of years now, the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC) has teamed up with ISCM to present a commissioning award to a young composer.  Any composer who is under the age of 35 and has a work programmed on the festival is automatically eligible for this prize. 

The judges were:
Stephen Lias (USA)
Zou XiangPing (China)
Alper Maral (Turkey)
Emilio Mendoza (Venezuela)
Balázs Horváth (Hungary)

Eric Nathan’s ISCM-commissioned work, Paestum for sinfonietta, received its world premiere performance in a performance by the Melos Ethos Ensemble conducted by Daniel Gazon in the Small Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava, Slovakia on 8 November 2013 during the 2013 ISCM World Music Days in Košice, Bratislava and Vienna.

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