Gaudeamus International Composers Award
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The Gaudeamus International Composers Award is a European award issued by the Music Center the Netherlands
(which encompasses the former Gaudeamus Foundation
). The prize is awarded at an annual ceremony in the Netherlands to a young composer competing in the highly competitive Gaudeamus Music Week.
Music Center the Netherlands
Music Center the Netherlands is an organization that promotes and archives Dutch professional music. It aims to strengthens the position of Dutch music and music culture in the Netherlands and abroad. It organizes events and informative meetings, workshops, courses; publishes promotional CDs; and...
(which encompasses the former Gaudeamus Foundation
Gaudeamus Foundation
The Gaudeamus Foundation and Contemporary Music Center is a renowned center for contemporary music. The Gaudeamus Foundation organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts both in the Netherlands and abroad...
). The prize is awarded at an annual ceremony in the Netherlands to a young composer competing in the highly competitive Gaudeamus Music Week.
First Prize winners
- 1957 Peter SchatPeter SchatPeter Schat was a Dutch composer.Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the conservatories in Utrecht and The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then went on to study in London with Mátyás Seiber in 1959 and with Pierre Boulez in Basle in 1960–61...
(NL) - 1958 Otto Ketting (NL, Due Canzoni)
- 1959 Louis AndriessenLouis AndriessenLouis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
(NL) - 1960 Lars Johan WerleLars Johan WerleLars Johan Werle was a Swedish modernist composer.-Life and career:He was born in Gävle, Sweden, and taught himself how to compose, although he later studied at the University of Uppsala. He sang in the chorus Bel Canto, was active as a jazz musician, and worked as a producer for Swedish Radio...
(SE) - 1961 Misha MengelbergMisha MengelbergMisha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...
(NL), Per NørgårdPer NørgårdPer Nørgård is a Danish composer.-Biography:Nørgård studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe...
(DK) and Enrique Raxach (ES/NL) - 1962 Pauline OliverosPauline OliverosPauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
(US, Sound PatternsSound PatternsSound Patterns is a musical piece or composition for a cappella mixed chorus by Pauline Oliveros. Oliveros won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1962 with this work....
) - 1963 Arne Mellnäs (SE)
- 1964 Ib NørholmIb NørholmIb Nørholm is a Danish composer and organist.Nørholm studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he later taught , becoming a professor in 1981...
(DK) - 1965 Joep Straesser (NL) and Mario BertonciniMario BertonciniMario Bertoncini is an Italian composer, pianist, and music educator. In 1962 he was awarded the Nicola d'Atri Prize by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for his Sei Pezzi per orchestra and in 1965 he was awarded both the Gaudeamus International Composers Award and the Fondation europeènne...
(IT) - 1966 Alfred Janson (NO) and Ton Bruynèl (NL)
- 1967 Hans-Joachim HesposHans-Joachim HesposHans-Joachim Hespos is a German composer of avant-garde music.Since für Cello solo , he has composed in all genres, including many pieces for unaccompanied solo instruments and theatre works...
(DE), Costin MiereanuCostin MiereanuCostin Miereanu is a French composer and musicologist of Romanian birth.-Biography:Miereanu studied from 1960 to 1966 at the Music Academy of Bucharest with Alfred Mendelsohn, Dan Constantinescu, and Lazar Octavian Cosma, and later at the École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales, at the...
(RO/FR), Maurice Benhamou (FR), Jean Yves Bosseur (FR) and Tona ScherchenTona ScherchenTona Scherchen, also Tona Scherchen-Hsiao , is one of the first composers who brought Chinese elements into European avant-garde art music....
(CH) - 1968 Vinko GlobokarVinko GlobokarVinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...
(FR) - 1969 Jos Kunst (NL)
- 1970 Jan VriendJan VriendJan Vriend is a Dutch classical music composer, conductor and pianist.Vriend was born in Benningbroek, North Holland, and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1960 to 1967, with Else Krijgsoman , Anthon van der Horst and Jan Felderhof , and Ton de Leeuw...
(NL, Huantan) - 1971 John McGuire (US)
- 1972 Daniel LentzDaniel LentzDaniel Lentz , Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is an electronic Western classical-music composer.Daniel Lentz achieved much fame as a musician while quite young—when he was still a student at Brandeis University he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966...
(US) - 1973 Maurice Weddington (US)
- 1974 Christian Dethleffsen (DE)
- 1975 Robert SaxtonRobert Saxton-Biography:After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio....
(UK) - 1976 Fabio VacchiFabio VacchiFabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...
(IT, Les Soupirs de Geneviève) - 1977 Şerban NichiforSerban NichiforŞerban Nichifor is an internationally prominent Romanian musician. He is Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest ; Member of UCMR , SABAM , ECPMN ; Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association; Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA and co-director of the NUOVA MUSICA...
(RO) - 1978-1983 no prizes awarded
- 1984 Mauro Cardi (IT)
- 1985 Unsuk ChinUnsuk ChinUnsuk Chin , is a South Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004 and the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2005.- Biography :...
(KR) - 1986 Uros Rojko (SI)
- 1987 Karen TanakaKaren Tanaka-Biography:Karen Tanaka was born in Tokyo, Japan where she started piano and composition lessons as a child. After studying composition with Akira Miyoshi and piano with Nobuko Amada at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she moved to Paris in 1986 with the aid of a French Government Scholarship...
(JP) - 1988 Michael JarrellMichael JarrellMichael Jarrell is a Swiss composer. Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.His works span many genres...
(CH) - 1989 Richard BarrettRichard Barrett (composer)Richard Barrett is a British composer.-Biography:Barrett began to study music seriously only after graduating in genetics and microbiology at University College London in 1980 . From then until 1983 he took private lessons with Peter Wiegold...
(UK, I open and close) - 1990 Claus-Steffen MahnkopfClaus-Steffen Mahnkopf-Life:Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber und Emanuel Nunes and music theory at the music academy in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and...
(DE) and Paolo Aralla (IT) - 1991 Asbjorn Schaathun (NO)
- 1992 Jörg Birkenkötter (DE)
- 1993 David del Puer to (ES)
- 1994 Richard AyresRichard AyresRichard Ayres is a British composer and teacher.Ayres was born in Cornwall, England in 1965. He followed Morton Feldman’s classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at Huddersfield Polytechnic until 1989, graduating with...
(UK) - 1995 Jesús Torres (ES) and Michael OesterleMichael OesterleMichael Oesterle is a Canadian composer currently living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada. His pieces are written in the contemporary classical genre....
(CA) - 1996 Régis CampoRégis Campo- Biography :Born in Marseille in 1968, Régis Campo is one of France’s best-known young composers. His music possesses a distinct rhythmic energy and vitality, is highly melodic, and possesses a certain humour that found in the work of French composers such as Janequin, Rameau, Couperin, Satie or...
(FR) - 1997 Hang Zou (CN)
- 1998 Kumiko Omura (JP) and Geoff HannanGeoff HannanGeoff Hannan is a British composer and musician born in London on 25 April 1972 to Irish parents. A music scholarship to Winchester College enabled him to study privately with Michael Finnissy from 1987 to 1990 before reading Music at the University of Manchester...
(UK) - 1999 Michel van der AaMichel van der AaMichel van der Aa is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.- Early years :Michel van der Aa trained as a recording engineer at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
(NL) - 2000 Yannis KyriakidesYannis KyriakidesYannis Kyriakides is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music...
(CY/NL) - 2001 Palle Dahlstedt (SE) and Takuya Imahori (JP)
- 2002 Valerio Murat (IT)
- 2003 Dmitri Kourliandski (RU)
- 2004 Sampo Haapamäki (FI, SignatureSignatureA signature is a handwritten depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a signature is a signatory. Similar to a handwritten signature, a signature work describes the work as readily identifying...
) - 2005 Oscar BianchiOscar BianchiOscar Bianchi is a Gaudeamus Laureate composer of Italian and Swiss citizenships.-References:*http://brahms.ircam.fr/composers/composer/21896/*http://music.columbia.edu/columbiacomposers/?page_id=261...
(IT/CH) - 2006 Lefteris PapadimitriouLefteris Papadimitriou-Biography:He was born in Volos, Greece and lives in Athens. He studied composition with Iannis Ioannidis and has written many compositions for live instruments and electronic media....
(GR) and Gabriel Paiuk (AR) - 2007 Christopher Trapani (US)
- 2008 Huck HodgeHuck HodgeHuck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Hodge's music "is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance"...
(US, ParallaxParallaxParallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. The term is derived from the Greek παράλλαξις , meaning "alteration"...
es, for chamber orchestra) - 2009 Ted Hearne (US, Katrina Ballads)
- 2010 Marko Nikodijevic (SRB/GER)
- 2011 Yoshiaki OnishiYoshiaki Onishiis a composer, conductor, and a clarinetist. He has attended Columbia University, Yale University, and University of the Pacific, studying with Fabien Lévy, Martin Bresnick, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Klingbeil, Robert Coburn, and François Rose...
(JPN/USA)
See also
- Gaudeamus FoundationGaudeamus FoundationThe Gaudeamus Foundation and Contemporary Music Center is a renowned center for contemporary music. The Gaudeamus Foundation organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts both in the Netherlands and abroad...
- Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award