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 Talk about a rogue's gallery. I'm not sure if I really want to admit that two of these reprobates are my friends! CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI WINS GAUDEAMUS PRIZE 2007
At the final concert of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 3 to 9 September, the Gaudeamus Prize was awarded to the American composer Christopher Trapani (1980). He receives the award of 4,550 Euros, intended as a commission for a new work to be performed at the next edition of the International Gaudeamus Music Week in 2008.
Trapani received the prize for Sparrow Episodes, a composition for ensemble and electric guitar, performed on September 5 at the “Muziekgebouw aan ’t Y” by the Asko Ensemble conducted by Etienne Siebens. Trapani himself was the soloist on electric guitar. There were three honorable mentions: Marko Nikodijevic (Serbia, 1980) received the mention for cvetic, kucica, performed on 3 September by the Ives Ensemble in the Muziekgebouw, Stelios Manousakis (Greece, 1980) for his tape-work Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees, played back op 5 September in the Bimhuis, and Vedran Mehinovic (Bosnia Herzegovina, 1981) received an honorable mention for RA, performed on 8 September in the Muziekgebouw by Holland Symfonia conducted by Fabrice Bollon.
The Gaudeamus Prize and the honorable mentions were awarded by jury members Mary Finsterer (Australia), Kevin Volans (South Africa), and Yannis Kyriakides (the Netherlands). For this year’s International Gaudeamus Music Week, which was open to composers under 31, the Gaudeamus Foundation received about 300 scores from all over the world; the jury subsequently selected seventeen works to compete for the Gaudeamus Prize 2007. |
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #1 on: 14:05:03, 11-09-2007 » |
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Excellent. Congratulations to all. But I only have met one of these reprobates...
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« Reply #2 on: 14:47:25, 11-09-2007 » |
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Gosh, chaps, you needn't have dressed up for it, no, really...  |
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« Reply #3 on: 14:49:51, 11-09-2007 » |
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Ah, the legendary self-proclaimed Queen of Serbia, good to see him doing well...  |
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« Reply #4 on: 14:53:46, 11-09-2007 » |
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Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees ...does that title belongs somewhere on these boards  |
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« Reply #5 on: 17:28:05, 11-09-2007 » |
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Gosh, chaps, you needn't have dressed up for it, no, really... Don't know about the others, really, but ... that is dressed up for Marko. At least he bothered to put on a shirt! |
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CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI WINS GAUDEAMUS PRIZE 2007
At the final concert of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 3 to 9 September, the Gaudeamus Prize was awarded to the American composer Christopher Trapani (1980). He receives the award of 4,550 Euros, intended as a commission for a new work to be performed at the next edition of the International Gaudeamus Music Week in 2008.
Trapani received the prize for Sparrow Episodes, a composition for ensemble and electric guitar, performed on September 5 at the “Muziekgebouw aan ’t Y” by the Asko Ensemble conducted by Etienne Siebens. Trapani himself was the soloist on electric guitar. There were three honorable mentions: Marko Nikodijevic (Serbia, 1980) received the mention for cvetic, kucica, performed on 3 September by the Ives Ensemble in the Muziekgebouw, Stelios Manousakis (Greece, 1980) for his tape-work Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees, played back op 5 September in the Bimhuis, and Vedran Mehinovic (Bosnia Herzegovina, 1981) received an honorable mention for RA, performed on 8 September in the Muziekgebouw by Holland Symfonia conducted by Fabrice Bollon.
The Gaudeamus Prize and the honorable mentions were awarded by jury members Mary Finsterer (Australia), Kevin Volans (South Africa), and Yannis Kyriakides (the Netherlands). For this year’s International Gaudeamus Music Week, which was open to composers under 31, the Gaudeamus Foundation received about 300 scores from all over the world; the jury subsequently selected seventeen works to compete for the Gaudeamus Prize 2007. Well, crap. There goes my dream of being the first American to win in the modern era. Not that I've ever been shortlisted or anything  Congrats to Chris, though!! I don't know most of the others (Herr Queen excepted) but I imagine he most likely earned it. |
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« Reply #7 on: 13:44:27, 12-09-2007 » |
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So which is which, and how do you all know the Queen of Serbia?
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« Reply #8 on: 13:51:27, 12-09-2007 » |
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Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees ...does that title belongs somewhere on these boards If you pay virtual peanuts you get digital monkeys, I imagine... Best, Alistair |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #9 on: 13:58:47, 12-09-2007 » |
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So which is which, and how do you all know the Queen of Serbia?
 Gaudeamus Iggi Tour I don't have the honour of knowing any of them but I did guess instantly, and correctly, which one was the Queen of Serbia if that helps. |
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« Reply #10 on: 14:15:14, 12-09-2007 » |
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How did you know you were correct, George?! (And - erm - 'Queen ... he'? Is this one for the Pedantry Thread?  ) From L to R: Christopher Trapani - Vedran Mehinović (?) - Marko Nikodijević - Stelios Manousakis (?) [I'm guessing on nos 2 and 4] I know Chris because he studied with a friend of mine, and Marko because I bumped into him in the George Hotel in Huddersfield a couple of years ago. I think all the young composers here who know Marko do so from having been fellow participants in a summer course at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where Ollie was a resident artist at the time and where I think Richard must have put in a passing visit. |
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« Reply #11 on: 14:22:47, 12-09-2007 » |
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How did you know you were correct, George?! (And - erm - 'Queen ... he'? Is this one for the Pedantry Thread? ) From L to R: Christopher Trapani - Vedran Mehinovi? (?) - Marko Nikodijevi? - Stelios Manousakis (?) [I'm guessing on nos 2 and 4] I know Chris because he studied with a friend of mine, and Marko because I bumped into him in the George Hotel in Huddersfield a couple of years ago. I think all the young composers here who know Marko do so from having been fellow participants in a summer course at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where Ollie was a resident artist at the time and where I think Richard must have put in a passing visit. "Passing visit"? Mais non, he was the guest of honor. and yes, I think your diagnosis of the source of queenly proximity is quite correct. |
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« Reply #12 on: 14:31:26, 12-09-2007 » |
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"Passing visit"? Mais non, he was the guest of honor.
A hundred thousand apologies. I knew nothing. Maid of hono (U)r it is. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #13 on: 14:33:04, 12-09-2007 » |
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How did you know you were correct, George?! Oh, only by using the quote button on the picture and assuming you had identified them all and put the names in order  . I did type 'she' first of of all but wasn't sure if that was allowed. |
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« Reply #14 on: 14:50:17, 12-09-2007 » |
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How did you know you were correct, George?! Oh, only by using the quote button on the picture and assuming you had identified them all and put the names in order . Ooh, you are clever! |
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