Gaudeamus International Composers Award

"Gaudeamus Prize" redirects here. For the contemporary music performance prize, see Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award.

The Gaudeamus International Composers Award is a European award issued by the Muziek Centrum Nederland (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.

The Gaudeamus Foundation had held an annual music week of Dutch compositions since 1947, alternating with an international competition until 1959, from which time they became fully international (Anon 2001).

First Prize winners

• 1957 Peter Schat (NL)
• 1958 Otto Ketting (NL, Due Canzoni)
• 1959 Louis Andriessen (NL)
• 1960 Lars Johan Werle (SE)
• 1961 Misha Mengelberg (NL), Per Nørgård (DK) and Enrique Raxach (ES/NL)
• 1962 Pauline Oliveros (US, Sound Patterns)
• 1963 Arne Mellnäs (SE)
• 1964 Ib Nørholm (DK)
• 1965 Joep Straesser (NL) and Mario Bertoncini (IT)
• 1966 Alfred Janson (NO) and Ton Bruynèl (NL)
• 1967 Hans-Joachim Hespos (DE), Costin Miereanu (RO/FR), Maurice Benhamou (FR), Jean Yves Bosseur (FR) and Tona Scherchen (CH)
• 1968 Vinko Globokar (FR)
• 1969 Jos Kunst (NL)
• 1970 Jan Vriend (NL, Huantan)
• 1971 John McGuire (US)
• 1972 Daniel Lentz (US)
• 1973 Maurice Weddington (US)
• 1974 Christian Dethleffsen (DE)
• 1975 Robert Saxton (UK)
• 1976 Fabio Vacchi (IT, Les Soupirs de Geneviève)
• 1977 Şerban Nichifor (RO)
• 1978–1983 no prizes awarded
• 1984 Mauro Cardi (IT)
• 1985 Unsuk Chin (KR)
• 1986 Uros Rojko (SI)
• 1987 Karen Tanaka (JP)
• 1988 Michael Jarrell (CH)
• 1989 Richard Barrett (UK, I open and close)
• 1990 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (DE) and Paolo Aralla (IT)
• 1991 Asbjorn Schaathun (NO)
• 1992 Jörg Birkenkötter (DE)
• 1993 David del Puerto (ES)
• 1994 Richard Ayres (UK)
• 1995 Jesús Torres (ES) and Michael Oesterle (CA)
• 1996 Régis Campo (FR)
• 1997 Hang Zou (CN)
• 1998 Kumiko Omura (JP) and Geoff Hannan (UK)
• 1999 Michel van der Aa (NL)
• 2000 Yannis Kyriakides (CY/NL)
• 2001 Palle Dahlstedt (SE) and Takuya Imahori (JP)
• 2002 Valerio Murat (IT)
• 2003 Dmitri Kourliandski (RU)
• 2004 Sampo Haapamäki (FI, Signature)
• 2005 Oscar Bianchi (IT/CH)
• 2006 Lefteris Papadimitriou (GR) and Gabriel Paiuk (AR)
• 2007 Christopher Trapani (US)
• 2008 Huck Hodge (US, Parallaxes for chamber orchestra)
• 2009 Ted Hearne (US, Katrina Ballads)
• 2010 Marko Nikodijevic (RS/DE)
• 2011 Yoshiaki Onishi (JP/US)
• 2012 Konstantin Heuer (DE)
• 2013 Tobias Klich (Germany)
• 2014 Anna Korsun (Ukraine)
• 2015 Alexander Khubeev (RU)

Sources

• Anon. 2001. "Gaudeamus Foundation". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.