We are really excited about the success of this first edition of the contest!
We received 145 works from 36 countries from the four corners of the world: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Korea, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK, Hungary, and USA.
Among these works the jury, chaired by the composer László Tihanyi (HUNGARY) and made of the composer Alessio Elia (ITALY) and the pianist Krisztina Fejes (HUNGARY), has decreed, at its unquestionable judgment, the following result:
1. Prize | DANIELE GASPARINI (1975) – ITALY
“Tres recuerdos del cielo” Average mark: 8,83 / 10 wins
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2. Prize | JOÃO PEDRO OLIVEIRA (1959) – PORTUGAL / USA
“Mosaic” Average mark: 8,33 / 10 wins
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3. Prize ex aequo | MICHAEL BARRETT (1987) – USA / GERMANY
“Listen to this alone” Average mark: 7,83 / 10 wins
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3. Prize ex aequo | ANDRIUS MASLEKOVAS (1985) – LITHUANIA
“Splinters of Broken Silence” Average mark: 7,83 / 10 wins
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One-year consultations | FANNY LIBERT (2000) – BELGIUM
“onaipos” |
The winning works will be recorded by the international acclaimed pianist Krisztina Fejes in the Budapest studios with the sound engineer Kálmán Melha of the Liszt Academy of Music and will be addressed to the major Italian and Hungarian radios specialized in art music (RAI Radio 3, Radio Vaticana, Radio Cemat, Bartók Radio, Radio Klassik). The recording will also be published on our YouTube channel and advertised on all our social platforms.
The one-year consultations will be held by the composer Alessio Elia, starting from January 2021.
DANIELE GASPARINI (1975) ![]() After he won the Masterprize (third prize) in 1998, his works got awards at several important international competitions including: Premio Internazionale Valentino Bucchi (2000), Premio Internazionale 2 Agosto (2002), Premio Reina Sofia (2004), Premio Internazionale Guido d’Arezzo (2006), the Netherlands National Radio Groot Omroepkoor Prijs (2007), Concours Pablo Casals (2009), Premio Monodramma 2013, Barto Prize (2014), Karol Szymanowski Composition Prize (2015 and 2018). His compositions have been performed by renowned players such as the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding’s conducting, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española under Adrian Leaper, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Ulf Schirmer, the Polish National Radio Orchestra under Christopher Lyndon-Gee and José Maria Florêncio, the Croatian National Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra under Ari Rasilainen the BBC Orchestras, the Netherlands National Radio Choir under Simon Halsey, Salvatore Accardo, Tzimon Barto, the Trio di Parma, the Ensemble Calliopée, etc. and broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world. Recently he has collaborated with the writer Raul Montanari author of the libretto for the monodrama “Incubi e amore” and the text for “Trans Europe Express”, a melologue for actor, piano and wind orchestra. After his classical studies he took a degree in Philosophy at Università degli Studi Carlo Bo in Urbino. Always interested in the relations among music, literature and figurative arts, he regularly gives lectures on such themes. He teaches Theory of Harmony and Analysis at the Conservatorio di Musica Alfredo Casella in L’Aquila. Official website |
![]() JOÃO PEDRO OLIVEIRA (1959) holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition for the University of Photo credit: Gabrieu Algusto |
![]() MICHAEL BARRETT (1987) was born in the Washington D.C. in the USA. After a musical childhood during which he played various instruments and in various ensembles, he began his compositional career at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, Ohio. Here, he received various awards, including being recognized as the school’s most outstanding composer 3 years consecutively by winning their Lee Goldstiein Composition award. |
![]() ANDRIUS MASLEKOVAS (1985) a Lithuanian composer and researcher, who studied composition at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, as well as Norwegian Music Academy. He defended his doctoral thesis on the subject of sound quality in 2016. As a composer, Andrius is dedicated to acoustic music and eagerly explores peculiarities of acoustic instruments. |
![]() FANNY LIBERT (2000) was born in Brussels. She started to play the piano and composing at an early age. Her interests include folk music (mainly from the Balkan area) and harpsichord, with also a strong interest in ancient music. |