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The Prix des Editions Musicales Européennes was founded by Georges Kan, in the aim to make known young composers at the beginning of their carreer. For its first issues, this prize was partner of the Ensemble Aleph and its International Forum for Young Composers. Now it opens his selection to the whole european cursus for young composers and specially to Session de composition de Royaumont
Georges Kan has decided to offer to one composer selected from these forums the possibility to be published by Editions Musicales Européennes, Paris.
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Prix des Editions Musicales
Européennes - 2006
partnership with Fondation
Royaumont
Winner :
Ondrej
Adámek
(Session de composition 2005 of Abbaye de Royaumont)
Ondrej Adámek, born in Praha in 1979, passed his composer diploma, first in Praha Conservatory and then in Praha Music Academy. Since 2000, he studied in Conservatoire de Paris composition and electroacoustic (G. Reibel, F. Durieux, M. Stroppa, L. Naon, Y. Geslin, T. Mays) as well as orchestration, improvisation, analysis and indian music.
In April 2002, he
granted the Bourse de l'UNESCO for a residence with modern dance
company Gaara in Nairobi for the premiere of a show: Abila. For his
electro-acoustic pieces, he was awarded the Prix au Concours
International de Bourges (IMEB 2003), the Prix Métamorphoses
(Musique et Recherche - Belgique 2002, 2004), and the Prix de la
Radio Hongroise (2004). In 2004, he had a collaboration with Nouvel
Ensemble Moderne in Montreal within its 2004 forum. In 2006, he was
awarded the Prix Biennal d'orchestre symphonique of Brandebourg.
He composed instrumental pieces, electroacoustic music, and works
with contempory dance.
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Prix des Editions Musicales Européennes - 2003
Winner :
Carsten Hennig
(2e Forum International des jeunes compositeurs de l'ensemble Aleph,
2002)
Carsten Hennig studied film music at the Filmakademie Baden/Württemberg and composition with Adriana Hölszky at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock. Since 2001 he has been following postgraduate studies with Hölszky at the Mozarteum, Salzburg.
In 1997 he was invited to the International Gaudeamus Music Week with his composition Ein Ort Nirgends, and in 1998 he worked with the Ensemble Modern on his work LONDON 5697. Also in 1998 his composition Amatus sum was performed in Stockholm by the ArtGenda-festival.
In 1999, with a group of other composers, he wrote the music theater piece Parzival, wich was premiered at the Stadttheater Gießen before being performed at the Münchner Biennale.
In 2000 his orchestral piece synonym 2 was commissioned by the Deutsche Musikrat and peformed by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the festival Dresdner Tage für Zeitgenössische Musik.
In 2001 Carsten Hennig was awarded a bursary by the government of Mecklenburg/Vorpommern.
He won Second Prize in the Luxembourg International Composition Competition 2002 and in the DTKV Leipzig International Composition Competition.
His work Kadenzes - 13 Fälle für Frauenstimme und Ensemble was selected by the Ensemble Aleph for the Second International Forum for Young Composers.
In 2003 his Opera "Malins Heimkehr" - commissioned by the Innsbruck Opera - was premiered in Innsbruck.
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Prix des Editions Musicales Européennes - 2001
Winner :
Aureliano
Cattaneo
(1er Forum International des jeunes compositeurs de l'ensemble Aleph,
2000)
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premiered in Wittener Tage fur Neue Kammermusik 2003 [...] On the other hand, Aureliano Cattaneo's Minotaurus, Dreaming, for soprano, counter-tenor and two ensembles - setting texts by Eduardo Sanguinetti and Friedrich Duerrenmatt - revealed a young composer, born 1974, capable of combining a radical outlook with a vocal sensibility. [...] S & H Contemporary
Festival Review [...] Der Italiener Aureliano Cattaneo (1974) beschwört in “Minotaurus, dreaming" für Sopran, Countertenor und zwei Instrumentalgruppen den bekannten Mythos, gespiegelt in Texten von Edoardo Sanguineti und Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Im verspiegelten Labyrinth ist nicht nur der Stiermensch eingeschlossen, auch Cattaneos Stück “spiegelt" mit den Mitteln von Reduktion, Verzerrung, Parodie dem Zuhörer eine italienische “Oper" vor: Hörend “sieht" man die kombinierten Versatzstücke einer Oper, ihrer Form und Struktur: Intelligent komponiert. [...] neue musikzeitung
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Aureliano Cattaneo was born in Codogno (Lodi-Italy) in 1974, studied piano in the Conservatory of Music of Piacenza, and in 1997 he got his piano diploma with Vincenzo Balzani. He studied composition with Carlo Alessandro Landini, Pippo Molino and Sonia Bo at the Conservatory of music "Verdi" of Milan. He attended master classes of composition with Gerard Grisey, Toshio Hosokawa, Cristóbal Halffter and Mauricio Sotelo.
Winner of prizes of composition (1999 - First prize of Competition "Progetto Giovani Compositori" of Milan; 2000 - Finalist of the 17th International Composition Prize "Alea III" of the Boston University; 2000 - First prize of "Campo de Composición" of Injuve of Madrid; 2001 - First Prize of the IV International Composition Competition "Valcarcel" of the Fundación Botín of Santander), in 2000 he was selected for the "VII International Young Composer's Meeting" of Apeldoorn (Holland) and the "Premier Forum International des Jeunes Compositeurs" of Paris. In Autumn 2000 he was "composer in residence" at "Casa de Velazquez" of Madrid thanks to a "bourse de séjour" of the French Ministry of Culture and in Autumn 2001 he has been selected for the 14th International Composition Seminar of Boswil (Switzerland).
He has collaborated with the Italian poet Edoardo Sanguineti in occasion of the international meeting of poetry "La poesia ante el Tercer Milenio", organised by Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
His works were performed in Italy and abroad (Rome, Reggio Emilia, Milan, Turin, Lodi, Boston, Madrid, Santander, Segovia, Apeldoorn, Cannes, Paris, London, Corfu, Kiev, Mexico D.F., Basel) by ensembles as Klangforum Wien, Ex-Novo, Alea III, Orchestra Cantelli, De Ereprijs, Aleph, Grupo Onix, Solistas de la JONDE, Ensemble Ricochet, directed by Ed Spanjaard. Claudio Ambrosini, Theodore Antoniou, Francisco Lara. His work "Klangregie" for solo piano has been premiered in the 50th Festival Internacional de Santander by Italian pianist Bruno Canino and broadcasted by RNE (Radio Nacional de España). Klangforum Wien has premiered his "concertino" for trombone and amplified ensemble under the direction of Ed Spanijard in November 2001 in the Festival "Europäischen Musikmonats" of Basel.
He has received commissions by the "Centro Para la Difusión de la Música Contemporanea" (CDMC) of Madrid and by the Province of Lodi (Italy). The French Ministry of Culture gave him a commission ("commande d'etat) to write a new piece for violin, cello and accordion for the Trio Aller-Retour.
His future projects include a new piece for piano and accordeon commissioned by Duo Anaki (Iñaki Alberdi and Ananda Sukarlan) that will be premiered in autumn 2002.
He is one of the promoter of the Festival "ContemporaneaMente" of the city of Lodi (Italy).
