Gaudeamus International Composers Award
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.
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 Puer to (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 (SRB/GER)
- 2011 Yoshiaki Onishi (JPN/USA)
See also