Gaudeamus International Composers Award Explained

The Gaudeamus International Composers Award is made by the Gaudeamus Foundation. The prize is awarded yearly, to a young composer at Dutch music concert, Gaudeamus Muziekweek.^[1]

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.^[2]

Winners

• 1957 Peter Schat (NL)
• 1958 Otto Ketting (NL)
• 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)
• 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), Ralph Lundsten – Leo Nilson (SWE)
• 1968 Vinko Globokar (FR)
• 1969 Jos Kunst (NL)
• 1970 Jan Vriend (NL)
• 1971 John McGuire (US)
• 1972 Daniel Lentz (US)
• 1973 Maurice Weddington (US)
• 1974 Christian Dethleffsen (DE)
• 1975 Robert Saxton (UK)
• 1976 Fabio Vacchi (IT)
• 1977 Şerban Nichifor (RO)
• 1978 Stefan Dragostinov (BG)
• 1979–1983 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)
• 1990 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (DE) and Paolo Aralla (IT)
• 1991 Asbjørn Schaathun (NO)
• 1992 Jörg Birkenkötter (DE)
• 1993 David del Puerto (ES)
• 1994 Richard Ayres (UK)
• 1995 Michael Oesterle (CA) and Jesus Torres (ES)
• 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 (RU)
• 2004 Sampo Haapamäki (FI)
• 2005 Oscar Bianchi (IT/CH)
• 2006 Lefteris Papadimitriou (GR) and Gabriel Paiuk (AR)
• 2007 Christopher Trapani (US)
• 2008 Huck Hodge (US)
• 2009 Ted Hearne (US)
• 2010 Marko Nikodijevic (RS/DE)
• 2011 Yoshiaki Onishi (JP/US)
• 2012 Konstantin Heuer (DE)
• 2013 Tobias Klich (Germany)
• 2014 Anna Korsun (Ukraine)
• 2015 (RU)
• 2016 Anthony Vine (US)
• 2017 Aart Strootman (NL)^[3]
• 2018 Sebastian Hilli (FI)
• 2019 Kelley Sheehan (US)
• 2021 Annika Socolofsky (US)^[4]
• 2022 Rohan Chander (US)
• 2023 Zara Ali (US)
• 2024 Yixie Shen (CN)^[5]

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Nominees (not including the winners)

• 2022 Bekah Simms (CA), Alex Paxton (UK), Baldwin Giang (US), Bethany Younge (US) ^[7]
• 2023 Artun Çekem (TR), Saad Haddad (US), Uri Kochavi (IL), Aya Yoshida (JP) ^[8]
• 2024 Patrick Ellis (UK), Beniamino Fiorini (IT), Cem Güven (TR), Lucy McKnight (US)^[9]
• 2025 Matthew Grouse (UK), Golnaz Shariatzadeh (IR), Robin Haigh (UK), Yaz Lancaster (US)

External links

• Web site: Winners of the Gaudeamus Award . gaudeamus.nl . Utrecht . 7 May 2019.

Notes and References

1. Web site: American Composer Kelley Sheehan Wins 2019 Gaudeamus Award . 9 September 2019 . NewMusicBox . . U.S. . en . 7 January 2020.
2. Book: Sadie . Stanley . Tyrrell . John . The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2001 . Macmillan Publishers . London . 2nd. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .
3. Web site: 2017 . Music pioneer Aart Strootman wins Gaudeamus Award 2017 . gaudeamus.nl . Utrecht . 13 October 2017.
4. Web site: 2021 . Winnaar Gaudeamus Awards 2021 Annika Socolofsky . gaudeamus.nl . Utrecht . 15 September 2021.
5. https://gaudeamus.nl/en/nieuws/yixie-shen-winner-gaudeamus-award-2024/
6. https://www.classical-music.uk/news/article/gaudeamus-festival-announces-2024-award-winner
7. https://gaudeamus.nl/en/nieuws/gaudeamus-award-2022-nominees/
8. https://gaudeamus.nl/en/nieuws/gaudeamus-award-2023-genomineerden/
9. https://gaudeamus.nl/en/nieuws/nominees-gaudeamus-award-2024/