2022 ISCM Young Composer Award (supported by Music on Main) – Maja Linderoth

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 on Main), is given each year to an outstanding composer under 35 years of age whose work was featured during ISCM’s annual World New Music Days festival. The jury selects a composer whose programmed work shows great promise, and that composer then receives a commission to compose a new piece to be featured on a future World New Music Days festival.