Matthijs Vermeulen Award
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The Matthijs Vermeulen Award is a Dutch composition prize. It was named after the Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen
(1888–1967).
During the years 1972 through 2004, the prize was awarded annually by the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts. The award was discontinued from 2005, when the Amsterdam Foundation merged it with the Amsterdam Award for the Arts (Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst).
In March 2009, the Nederlands Foundation for Stage Arts announced it will renew the prize.
Matthijs Vermeulen
Matthijs Vermeulen , was a Dutch composer and music journalist.- Early life :...
(1888–1967).
During the years 1972 through 2004, the prize was awarded annually by the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts. The award was discontinued from 2005, when the Amsterdam Foundation merged it with the Amsterdam Award for the Arts (Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst).
In March 2009, the Nederlands Foundation for Stage Arts announced it will renew the prize.
List of award winners
- 1972: Jan van Vlijmen (Omaggio a Gesualdo)
- 1973: 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...
(To You) - 1974: Willem BreukerWillem BreukerWillem Breuker was a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist....
(Het paard van Troje) - 1975: Tristan KeurisTristan KeurisTristan Keuris was a Dutch composer.Keuris initially studied with Jan van Vlijmen in Amersfoort. At the age of 15 he started his studies with Ton de Leeuw at the Utrecht Conservatory. Upon graduating from the conservatory he received the 'Prijs voor compositie'...
(Sinfonia) - 1976: not awarded
- 1977: Louis AndriessenLouis AndriessenLouis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
(De Staat) - 1978: Jeugd en Muziek (Zeeland) / Leo Cuypers (Zeelandsuite)
- 1979: Otto Ketting (Symphony for saxophones and orchestra)
- 1980: Jan van Vlijmen (Quatemi)
- 1981: Jan BoermanJan BoermanJan Boerman was born in The Hague on June 30, 1923. He has been in electronic music studios since 1959. The Delft Polytechnic in Utrecht, from which the world-famous Institute of Sonology was developed, housed the first electronic music studio in Holland after the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven,...
(whole oeuvre) - 1982: Ton de LeeuwTon De LeeuwAntonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw was a Dutch composer. He was known for his experiments with microtonality....
(Car mes vignes sont en fleur) - 1983: Klaas de VriesKlaas de Vries (composer)Klaas de Vries is a Dutch composer. De Vries teaches composition at the conservatory of Rotterdam and can be described as influential in the Dutch musical life.-Biography:...
(Discantus) - 1984: Guus JanssenGuus JanssenGuus Janssen is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist. A pianist and harpsichordist, he is also active as a jazz performer....
(Ternet) - 1985: Dick RaaymakersDick RaaymakersDick Raaymakers is a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.-Biography:Raaymakers studied the piano at the Royal...
(Extase) - 1986: Theo LoevendieTheo LoevendieTheo Loevendie is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. As off 1968 he also wrote concert music, among which operas, concertos and chamber music...
(Naima) - 1987: Gottfried Michael KoenigGottfried Michael KoenigGottfried Michael Koenig is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.-Biography:Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig, composition, piano, analysis and acoustics in Detmold, music representation techniques in Cologne and computer technique in Bonn. He attended and later lectured at the...
- 1988: Joep Straesser (Über Erich M.)
- 1989: Jacques Bank (Requiem voor een levende)
- 1990: Peter-Jan WagemansPeter-Jan WagemansPeter-Jan Wagemans is a Dutch composer.Wagemans studied organ , composition with Jan van Vlijmen and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. After his studies he also worked with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.According to Wagemans' philosophy, music is shaped in the observation of the...
(Rosebud) - 1991: Klas Torstensson (Stick on Stick)
- 1992: Louis AndriessenLouis AndriessenLouis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
(M. is for Man, Music and Mozart; Facing Death, Dances, Hout en Lacrimosa) - 1993: Robert Heppener (Im Gestein)
- 1994: Dick RaaymakersDick RaaymakersDick Raaymakers is a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.-Biography:Raaymakers studied the piano at the Royal...
(Der Fall/Dépons; Die glückliche Hand — Geöffnet) - 1995: not awarded
- 1996: Diderik WagenaarDiderik WagenaarDiderik Wagenaar is a Dutch composer and musical theorist.-Life and work:Wagenaar has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born to a musical family that includes Johan Wagenaar, he began playing piano at the age of eight and by the time he was fourteen had set his sights on a musical...
(Trois Poèmes; Prose) - 1997: Ton de LeeuwTon De LeeuwAntonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw was a Dutch composer. He was known for his experiments with microtonality....
(Three Shakespeare Songs) - 1998: Klaas de VriesKlaas de Vries (composer)Klaas de Vries is a Dutch composer. De Vries teaches composition at the conservatory of Rotterdam and can be described as influential in the Dutch musical life.-Biography:...
(A king, riding en Interludium for string orchestraString orchestraA string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
) - 1999: Ron Ford (Salome Fast)
- 2000: Richard RijnvosRichard Rijnvos-Education and influences:Rijnvos studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian Ferneyhough.He received a DAAD scholarship and attended a postgraduate course at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg....
(Times Square Dance) - 2001: Misha MengelbergMisha MengelbergMisha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...
(Opera 2000) - 2002: Peter-Jan WagemansPeter-Jan WagemansPeter-Jan Wagemans is a Dutch composer.Wagemans studied organ , composition with Jan van Vlijmen and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. After his studies he also worked with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.According to Wagemans' philosophy, music is shaped in the observation of the...
(Moloch) - 2003: 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...
(No. 36 NONcerto) - 2004: 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...
(OneOne (opera)One is a chamber opera for soprano, video and soundtrack composed in 2002 by Michel van der Aa. It premiered on 12 January 2003 with Barbara Hannigan in the Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam. In 2004 Michel van der Aa received the Matthijs Vermeulen Award for this work....
) - 2005–2008: not awarded
- 2009: Boudewijn Tarenskeen (Mattheus Passie)