Città di Udine International Composition Competition
The "Città di Udine" International Composition Competition is a competition held biennially in Udine, Italy. It takes place at the San Giorgio Theatre in Udine; since its foundation (1995) is organized by Taukay Edizioni Musicali. It is open to all composers, regardless of nationality or age. The competition is divided in two sections: "instrumental compositions for chamber orchestra" and "electroacustic music". The instrumental group is made up of: a string quartet (two violins, viola and cello), piano, flute (piccolo, alto flute and bass flute), clarinet (clarinet in E flat, clarinet in B flat, clarinet in A and bass clarinet), percussion instruments (vibraphone, glockenspiel, tom toms, suspended cymbals, tam tam, templeblocks, small percussion instruments such as triangle, wood blocks, maracas, etc.).
Prizes
Prizes include:
- Best composition in the section "instrumental composition for chamber orchestra" (cash)
- Best composition in the section "electro-acoustic music" (cash)
- Special Prize Piero Pezzè - in memory of the composer who died in 1980 (cash)
- Special mention and medal of the Presidente della Repubblica Italiana
- Special mention and medal of the Senato della Repubblica Italiana
- Special mention and medal of the Camera dei deputati della Repubblica Italiana
- Award of the Ministro della Gioventù della Repubblica Italiana to the best composer less than 30 years of age
- Award of FIDAPA to the best female composer to incentivize the female presence in the competition
The best compositions entered are performed during the winning ceremony (San Giorgio Theatre in Udine) and recorded on compact disc.
Jury
Members of the jury have included:
Bernardino Beggio (Italy)
Michele Biasutti (Italy)
Philippe Blanchard (France)
Giovanni Bonato (Italy)
Edmund Campion (USA)
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (Italy)
Marek Choloniewski (Poland)
Renzo Cresti (Italy)
Michele Dall'Ongaro (Italy)
James Dashow (USA)
Jean-Luc Darbellay (Switzerland)
Jurai Duris (Slovak Republic)
Bernard Fort (France)
Lucio Garau (Italy)
Dinu Ghezzo (USA)
Thomas Kessler (Switzerland)
Daniel Kessner (USA)
Yuji Itoh (Japan)
Salvatore Macchia (USA)
Javier Torres Maldonado (Mexico)
Özkan Manav (Turkey)
Flo Menezes (Brasil)
de:Harald Muenz (Germany)
Ivo Nilsson (Sweden)
Jane O'Leary (Ireland)
Guido Pipolo (Italy)
Nicola Sani (Italy)
Alexander Shchetynsky (Ukraine)
Marco Stroppa (Italy)
Robert Scott Thompson (USA)
Jesus Villa Rojo (Spain)
John Yannelli (USA)
Winners
| Year | Composer | Nationality | Title of the composition | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Germán Alonso Rodriguez | Spain | Badass octet | Chamber music |
| 2012 | Daniel Blinkhorn | Australia | frostbYte cHatTer | Electroacoustic music |
| 2012 | Andrea Mattevi | Italy | Punto-linea e nature morte | Chamber music |
| 2012 | Massimo Lauricella | Italy | Fiabe, miti, magie | Chamber music |
| 2012 | Joan Magrané Figuera | Spain | Madrigal (Musik mit Gesualdo) | Chamber music |
| 2012 | Helga Arias Parra | Spain | Confluencias | Chamber music |
| 2012 | Maxime Corbeil-Perron | Canada | Fragments | Electroacoustic music |
| 2012 | Orestis Karamanlis | Greece | Toys | Electroacoustic music |
| 2010 | Marco Marinoni | Italy | Del vuoto incanto | Chamber music |
| 2010 | Admir Shkurtaj | Albania | Quartetto per archi n.2 | Chamber music |
| 2010 | John Palmer | Great Britain | Transference | Chamber music |
| 2010 | Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière | Canada | Plier-Déplier | Electroacoustic music |
| 2010 | Tom Williams | Great Britain | Can | Electroacoustic music |
| 2010 | Stefano Bonilauri | Italy | Coda 08 | Chamber music |
| 2010 | Mauricio Meza | Mexico | Confabulation 1.7 | Chamber music |
| 2010 | Kah Hoe Yii | Malaysia | Wild Cursive | Chamber music |
| 2008 | Nicolas Tzortzis | Greece | Four flash fear | Chamber music |
| 2008 | Paul Robinson | Great Britain | A Night in the Palace of Reason | Chamber music |
| 2008 | Giancarlo Turaccio | Italy | A_notion | Chamber music |
| 2008 | Felipe Otondo | Chile | Ciguri | Electroacoustic music |
| 2008 | Paul Rudy | USA | In lake'ch | Electroacoustic music |
| 2008 | Konstantinos Chizaris | Greece | November drops | Chamber music |
| 2008 | Christian Winther Christensen | Denmark | From the perfect ground | Chamber music |
| 2008 | Riccardo Panfili | Italy | In margine a un testo occulto | Chamber music |
| 2006 | Patrick Odiard | France | Rhizome | Chamber music |
| 2006 | Stefano Bulfon | Italy | Stultifera navis | Chamber music |
| 2006 | Alastair Greig | Great Britain | Steering for dream | Chamber music |
| 2006 | Raffaele Grimaldi | Italy | Visioni primitive | Chamber music |
| 2006 | João Pedro Oliveira | Portugal | Spirals of light | Chamber music |
| 2006 | Filippo Perocco | Italy | Continuo sospeso | Chamber music |
| 2006 | Yu-Chung Tseng | Taiwan | SSScream | Electroacoustic music |
| 2004 | Roberta Silvestrini | Italy | L’Acquata | Chamber music |
| 2004 | Jean-François Laporte | Canada | Dans le ventre du dragon | Electroacoustic music |
| 2004 | Per Bloland | USA | Dissent | Chamber music |
| 2004 | Maxwell Dulaney | USA | Implosions | Chamber music |
| 2004 | Barbara Magnoni | Italy | Omaggio a Schönberg | Chamber music |
| 2004 | Jeffrey Roberts | USA | Skimming | Chamber music |
| 2004 | Elisabeth Anderson | USA | Neon | Electroacoustic music |
| 2004 | Yu-Chung Tseng | Taiwan | T.J.CHI | Electroacoustic music |
| 2002 | Satoshi Ohmae | Japan | Altro Festone | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Leilei Tian | China | Wu | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Antti Sakari Saario | Finland | bullet train ballad n.1 | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Marco Bertona | Italy | YGGDRASIL | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Kee-Yong Chong | Malaysia | Four short Laments for X | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Fabrizio Fanticini | Italy | Lagune oltre Kronos | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Antonio Giacometti | Italy | Battito d'ali | Chamber music |
| 2002 | Roberto Filoseta | Italy | Threnody | Electroacoustic music |
| 2000 | Moritz Eggert | Germany | Croatoan I | Chamber music |
| 2000 | Sergio Lauricella | Italy | Levis strepitus | Chamber music |
| 2000 | Luigi Manfrin | Italy | Di nuovo seguendo le azzurre evanescenze del tempo | Chamber music |
| 2000 | Paolo Rismondo | Italy | Quartetto per archi | Chamber music |
| 2000 | Valerio Sannicandro | Italy | Dans un sentiment sourd et tumultueux | Chamber music |
| 2000 | Francesca Virgili | Italy | Come un incantesimo | Chamber music |
| 2000 | Diego Garro | Italy | Six dreaming Jewels | Electroacoustic music |
| 2000 | Juan Manuel Marrero | Spain | Confidencias estéticas para tiempos trágicos | Electroacoustic music |
| 1998 | Adrian Bamford | Great Britain | Guernica | Chamber music |
| 1998 | Luca Belcastro | Italy | Las mariposas bailan... en la nada | Chamber music |
| 1998 | Carlo Carcano | Italy | Piano, piccolo. Piccolo | Chamber music |
| 1998 | Francesco Chiari | Italy | Come l'acqua di un lago trepida ti circonda | Chamber music |
| 1998 | Jong-Woo Kim | Korea | String Quartet No.1 | Chamber music |
| 1998 | Andrea Vigani | Italy | Graffiti I-IV | Chamber music |
| 1998 | Linda Antas | USA | Still, Yet, Again | Electroacoustic music |
| 1998 | Francis Dhomont | France | En Cuerdas | Electroacoustic music |
| 1996 | Carlo Carcano | Italy | sss | Chamber music (national edition) |
| 1996 | Cesare Gallo | Italy | D'approfondir le secret douloureux qui me faisait languir | Chamber music (national edition) |
| 1996 | Luigi Manfrin | Italy | Coniunctio | Chamber music (national edition) |
| 1996 | Walter Olmo | Italy | Quartetto per archi | Chamber music (national edition) |
| 1996 | Vincenzo Pasceri | Italy | Sezionando | Chamber music (national edition) |
| 1996 | Michele Sartori | Italy | Quartetto per archi numero 2 | Chamber music (national edition) |
| 1996 | Andrea Cera | Italy | Trickster Museum | Electroacoustic music (national edition) |