The Jury of the Eighth International Competition for Composers Citta' di Udine
La Giuria del Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Città di Udine - ottava edizione

Nicola Sani (President - Italy) - Michele Biasutti (Italy) - Edmund J. Campion (USA)
Harald Muenz (Germany) - Ivo Nilsson (Sweden)

A native of Dallas, Texas, Edmund Campion (b. 1957) (www.edmundcampion.com) did his doctoral work in composition at Columbia University and spent several years in France studying with Gérard Grisey. In 1993 he was selected to work at IRCAM where he composed Losing Touch for vibraphone and tape. He was subsequently commissioned by IRCAM to write a large-scale piece for interactive electronics and MIDI grand piano.
The resulting Natural Selection received its premiere with the composer at the piano in 1996. After his return from Paris, Campion joined the composition faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) (www.cnmat.berkeley.edu).

Many of Campion's works explore relationships between sound and space-explorations often born of extra-musical inspirations or thoughts. Among his multimedia works is the complete ballet Playback, commissioned by IRCAM and the Socitété des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in collaboration with the choreographer François Raffinot. Domus Aurea, performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 2001, involves a sonic rumination on the "grotesque" inspired by the fantastic, fifteen-hundred-year-old frescoes adorning the walls of Emperor Nero's Roman villa. ME, for baritone and computer was commissioned by the CIRM in Nice and was composed in close collaboration with poet John Campion. Other projects include a French Ministry of Culture Commande d'Etat for Ondoyants et Divers (Wavelike and Diverse) (Billaudot Editions, Paris), written for the Percussion de Strasbourg Ensemble. Practice, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra was premiered in Carnegie's Zankel Hall in March of 2006. Recent commissions include a work for the violin and piano duo of David Abel and Julie Steinberg. The Zellig ensemble premiered a commission from Radio France at the Festival Presence in 2009 and Campion is currently working on a new commission for the Zellig ensemble to be premiered in 2010.
Upcoming projects include a Koussevitzky Foundation commission for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and a new work for the Argento Ensemble in New York. Other prizes and honors include: the Rome Prize, the Nadia Boulanger Award, the Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood, a Charles Ives Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Fulbright scholarship for study in France.

Harald Muenz (born in Schwäbisch Hall) calls his work “a research for acoustic situations which cannot be described within the limitedness of traditional terms of music and composition. Even if you do not want to call it music: it’s still there…” He had lessons with such different personalities of composers like Helmut Lachenmann (1994-97), Krzysztof Meyer (1988-93), Johannes Fritsch and Clarence Barlow as well as in the Electronic Studio of Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (Hans-Ulrich Humpert), the Institute for Sound Engineering in Detmold and at the Institute for Phonetics of Cologne University (Georg Heike). Alongside chamber, orchestra and vocal compositions he has been especially involved with articulatory speech sound composition (Aesthetic Phonetics), radiophonic works and computer aided concepts.
His works have been premiered by, amongst others, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Ensemble Apartment House (London), Ensemble Alter Ego (Rome), Neue Vokalsolisten (Stuttgart), Ensemble Mosaik (Berlin), Ensemble Phorminx, quartett avance, duo: archaeopteryx, Black Jackets Company (Brussels), Beth Griffith, Carin Levine, David Smeyers, Hanna Aurbacher and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has received performances in Belgium, Germany, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, South Korea and the USA, and his music has been broadcast throughout Germany and many other countries including also RAI Rome, BBC 3 London, Korea and the USA. His works have been heard at many festivals,
including the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels (1993), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1994, 2000), Kunststichting Rotterdam (1994), Melos-Étos in Bratislava (1999), Metapher in Stuttgart (1999), Emergenze in Rome (2000), Ultraschall in Berlin (2000, 2002), Schreyahner Herbst (2001), Pan Music Festival in Seoul (2002), and IPEM in Ghent (Belgium, 2003) among others. A large scale project for music theatre is in course.
He has received many bursaries and prizes, including the Research Grant of NRW (2001 for the ethnologicalphonetical music project SprachProben), Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW (1999), the Förderpreis Musik des Landes NRW (1997), the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Stipendium Köln (1997), and he has been a fellow of the artist’s residencies Künstlerhof Schreyahn (2005), Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2000) and Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf (1995). Recently, two CDs (Feedback CD 3 and DEGEM CD8) with an excerpt from „writing “ and “dreimal neunzig sekunden wirklichkeit” were published at cybele records. The new music magazine MusikTexte (vol. 103, November 2004) dedicated a focus to his artistic work.
Harald Muenz lives in Cologne and London. He is also active in several other functions inside the new music “scene”, f.e. as a radio and print media author, specialist translator and lecturer on new music. In Cologne, he is a member of the musical advisory boards for Kunst-Station Sankt Peter and for the Italian Institute (IIC). He is also a member of Initiativkreis Freie Musik (IFM) and of the composer's collective Krahnenbaum Company Köln. He recently edited a book with essays on Franco Evangelisti (Saarbrücken: Pfau-Verlag 2002).
He was a lecturer at the Phonetics Department of Cologne University (2001-2005) and lectured at the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Würzburg (since 2003). He was invited as a guest lecturer by Cologne University (musicology, phonetics), FH Würzburg and Technical University Cottbus and he was a teacher at the Summer Courses of Jeunesses Musicales Germany. Currently he holds a position as full-time permanent Lecturer in Music at the School of Arts of Brunel University in Uxbridge/West London.
He is a co-founder and member of the ensemble sprechbohrer (www.sprechbohrer.de), which performs articulatory speech sound art.

Ivo Nilsson is educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at IRCAM in Paris. In 1989 his Octet was premiered by the Ensemble L’Itinéraire at Radio France.
Since then, his music has been performed by ensembles such as Cantus, Ensemble Son, Ensemble Recherche, KammarensembleN, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Orchestre des Flûtes Français, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Slowind at festivals like Biennale di Venezia, Gaudeamus Music Days (Amsterdam), Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival, Ilhom (Tashkent), Musica (Strasbourg), Roaring Hoofs (Mongolia), 2 Days and 2 Nights (Odessa), Sonorities (Belfast), Spazio Musica (Cagliari), Spectra (Tirana), Time of music (Viitasaari), Ultima (Oslo), Warsaw Autumn, Nordic Music Days (Copenhagen) and the World Music Days in Zagreb.
His music has also been recorded by the radio companies BBC, DR, RNE, SR and YLE and by the record labels Ariadne, Phono Suecia and SFZ Records.
Ivo Nilsson was the artistic director of the Stockholm New Music festival in 2003 & 2005.
In 2007 Ivo Nilsson was awarded the Interpreters price from the Society of Swedish Composers.

Eighth International Competition for Composers Citta' di Udine - Rules and conditions

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