Toru Takemitsu Composition Award Explained

The is an international music competition for young composers organized in Tokyo, Japan.^[1]

History

The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award was established in 1997.

Each year, only one judge picks the winner of the award. For the first 3-year cycle, Takemitsu himself chose the winners: Henri Dutilleux (1997), György Ligeti (1998), and Luciano Berio (1999). Then, after Takemitsu's death, the three successors, Louis Andriessen (2000 recommended by Berio), Oliver Knussen (2001 recommended by Dutilleux) and Joji Yuasa (2002 recommended by Ligeti) were nominated by the initial judges.

For the third 3-year cycle (2003–2005), George Benjamin (2003), Magnus Lindberg (2004) and John Adams (2005 • cancelled) were nominated on the recommendation of the competition's advisors (Hiroyuki Iwaki, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Kazushi Ohno, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hiroshi Wakasugi) and preceding judges.

For the fourth 3-year cycle (2007–2009), the advisors and previous judges selected Akira Nishimura (2007), Steve Reich (2008) and Helmut Lachenmann (2009).

Tristan Murail (2010), Salvatore Sciarrino (2011) and Toshio Hosokawa (2012) were appointed as judges for the new 2010-2012 cycle.^[2]

The nominated pieces are performed at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.^[3]

As of 2011, fifty different composers had been nominated for this prize since its inception in 1997.

The total sum of the cash award is 3,000,000 Yen each year.^[4]

Results

The winners are:^{[5] [6]}

width=40 style="background-color:navajowhite"	Year	width=150 style="background-color:navajowhite"	Judge	width=300 style="background-color:navajowhite"	1st prize	width=300 style="background-color:navajowhite"	2nd prize	width=300 style="background-color:navajowhite"	3rd prize	width=300 style="background-color:navajowhite"	4th prize	width=40 class=unsortable style="background-color:navajowhite"	Notes
1997		not awarded	"ZÉULA" by Massimo Botter "Mabuni-no-Oka" by Hideki Kozakura	PAGAN II by Marc Kenneth Yeats
1998		not awarded	not awarded	not awarded
1999		"Uninterrupted Song" by Katsuji Maeda	"DINAMORPHIA" by Ken Itō	"Polychrome" by Toshiya Watanabe
2000		"L'été – L'oubli rouge" by Jun Nagao	"AWAKENINGS" by Joe Cutler	"Pulsating" by Sho Ueda
2001		"AQUILO" by Arlene Elizabeth Sierra "Gebilde-Gegenbild" by René Mense	"5 pieces for orchestra" by Luke Bedford	"Stein/Stern" by Ryuji Kubota
2002		"Canticum Tremulum" by Royuki Yamamoto "Tenunan II" by Tazul Tajuddin	"FEEDBACK" by Panayiotis Kokoras "Scene for Orchestra" by Theodor Pauss	"Tzolkin" by Michael John Wiley	^[7]
2003		"Allégories" by Joël Mérah	"Calling Timbuktu" by Dai Fujikura	"Nights Bright Days" by Phillip Neil Martin "Da/Fort" by Vittorio Zago
2004		"Fantasia on a Theme by Vaughan Williams" by Paul Stanhope	"Phenomenon" by Narong Prangcharoen "Focal Distance II" by Sho Ueda	"YU-HYUN" by Soonjung Suh "TALKING" by Marius Baranauskas
2005		The competition was cancelled
2006		There was no competition
2007		"Never Stand Behind Me" by Sho Ueda	"CUBE" by Andrea Portera	"AQUA" by Man Fang "Reminiscence of a dream" by YiMing Wu "In Killing Fields Sweet Butterfly Ascend" by Jonas Valfridsson
2008		"What dou you think about the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?" by Yuichi Matsumoto	"La Noche de Takemitsu" by Tomás Barreiro	"God in the Machine" by Damian Barbeler "16_1/32_1" by Toru Nakatani
2009		"Hexagonal Pulsar" by Kenji Sakai	"Creatura Temporale" by Raffaele Grimaldi "ZAI" by Kazutomo Yamamoto	"Cronica Fisiologica Universal" by Lucas Fagin "A Whirl of Endless Repetition  - To the Chaotic Ocean" by Masato Kimura
2010		"...Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" by Roberto Toscano (Brazil)	"Aquarius" by Andrej Slezak (Slovakia/Hungary) "Infinito Nero e Lontano la Luce" by Ken Namba (Japan)	"Deux Presages" by Chikako Yamanaka (Japan)
2011		"Flux et reflux" by Florent Motsch-Etienne (France)	"Subliminal" by Bernd Richard Deutsch (Austria)	"Parts II" by Jan Erik Mikalsen (Norway) (4th prize: "NAMOK" by Heera Kim (Korea))	^[8]
2012		"Mano d'erba, per orchestra" by Federico Gardella (Italy)	"Une Œuvre pour l'Echo des Rêves (II), pour orchestra" by Ioannis Angelakis (Greece)	"I Do Hope to Sleep in the Silent Universe" by Masato Kimura (Japan) "WARAI" by Shiori Usui (Japan)
2013		"SIGHS – hommage à Fryderyk Chopin" by Marcin Stańczyk (Poland)	"The Lark in the Snow" by Sumio Kobayashi (Japan)	"Zwei Landschaftsbilder" by Huan Liu (China) "'CLOSE' to You to 'OPEN'" by Nana Kamiyama (Japan)
2014		"THE NORTHERN CAMELLIA – GRADATION OF SOUNDING AMITY No. 2" by Kei Daigo (Japan)	"Until the Sea Above Us Is Closed Again" Giovanni Dario Manzini (Italy)	"BLACK BOXES für drei Orchestergruppen" by Timo Ruttkamp (Germany) "AWAKENING / SERENITY" by Siraseth Pantura-umporn (Thailand)
2015		"Reachings for orchestra" by Sebastian Hilli (Finland) "[difeʁãs] for orchestra" by Yiğit Kolat (Turkey/USA)	"cuadro de presencia for orchestra" by Fabià Santcovsky (Spain) "loop-fantasy for orchestra" by Thomas Wally (Austria)	not awarded	^[9]
2016		"ARCHETYPE" by Michael Seltenreich (Israel) "Let's speak in Wondrous Words! for orchestra" by Hirofumi Mogi (Japan)	"triple sensibilities for orchestra" by Myunghoon Park (Korea) "Nacres for Orchestra" by Alice Nakamura (Japan)	not awarded
2017		"Paysages entrelacés pour orchestre" by Naoki Sakata (Japan)	"at the still point for orchestra" by Zihua Tan (Malaysia) "NOWHERE for orchestra" by Annachiara Gedda (Italy) "Ich habe nie Menschenfleisch gegessen for orchestra" by Stefan Beyer (Germany)	not awarded
2018		"Quanta" by Barnaby Martin (UK) "STARING WEI JIE TO DEATH" by Paulo Brito (Brazil/USA)	"Quantum Vacuum" by Lukas Hövelmann-Köper (Germany) "SLEEPING IN THE WIND" by Bo Li (China)	not awarded	^[10]
2019		"Resonanz vom Horizont" by Shiqi Geng (China) "Entelequias" by Pablo Rubino Lindner (Argentina)	"Im Bauch des Fisches drei Tage und drei Nächte " by Siqi Liu (China)	"At The End Of Snow Line" by Zhuosheng Jin (China)
2020		"BORÉAS" by Xinyang Wang (China)	"SIX PRAYERS" by David Roche (UK)	"POÈMES DE MIDI" by Francisco Domínguez (Spain)	"Saṃsāra" by Carmen Ho (UK)
2021		"Moonlight Hidden in the Clouds" by Kohsuke Negishi (Japan)	"BREAKING A MIRROR" by Giorgio Francesco Dalla Villa (Italy)	"TEHOM" by Jakob Gruchmann (Austria) "The echo of shadows, hallucination..." by Minchang Kang (Korea)

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Toru Takemitsu Composition Competition . Australian Music Centre. 15 August 2009.
2. Web site: Toru Takemitsu Composition Award. Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation.
3. Web site: Facilities/Concert Hall . Operacity.jp . 10 September 1997 . 30 May 2010.
4. Web site: 2018 . How to entry . operacity.jp . Tokyo . Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation . 30 April 2018.
5. Web site: Toru Takemitsu Composition Award: Judges and Schedule . Operacity.jp . 7 December 2009 . 30 May 2010.
6. Web site: Toru Takemitsu Composition Award: Results . Operacity.jp . 2018 . 30 April 2018.
7. News: Lin . Rouwen . 21 January 2015 . Opera and mak yong remixed for the staged story of Kelantan's 'Puteri Saadong' . The Star . Malaysia . 30 April 2018.
8. News: 18 February 2014 . Klingender Pointillismus . . de . 30 April 2018.
9. News: Cook . Amanda . 20 January 2017 . 5 Questions to André de Ridder (Artistic Director, Musica nova Helsinki) . I Care If You Listen . Ithaca, New York. 30 April 2018.
10. News: Wirausky . Dirk . 4 February 2018 . Asiatische Kunst als Quell der Inspiration . . de . 30 April 2018.