Udine, July 2016
TEM - Taukay Edizioni Musicali and Delta Produzioni Associazione Culturale announce the results of the international composition competition "Città di Udine" – Eleventh Edition (2016).
The Jury is composed as follows:
Michele Biasutti (Italy) President
Sonia Bo (Italy)
Ricardo Dal Farra (Argentina)
Juraj Duris (Slovakia)
Robert Scott Thompson (USA)
460 scores and recordings arrived at our office (352 for “Compositions for chamber instrumental group or solo instrument” section and 108 for “Electroacoustic music” section) from the following countries:
Argentina 10, Australia 6, Austria 6, Belgium 11, Bosnia 1, Brazil 2, Bulgaria 1, Canada 11, Chile 3, China 7, Colombia 5, Cuba 1, Denmark 1, Ecuador 1, Finland 1, France 7, Germany 17, Japan 15, Greece, 20, Hong Kong 3, Iran 5, Ireland 4, Israel 10, Italy 135, Latvia 1, Luxembourg 1, Mexico 2, Moldavia 1, Montenegro 1, Norway 1, New Zealand 2, The Netherlands 7, Peru 1, Poland 11, Portugal 5, Puerto Rico 2, Czech Republic 9, Romania 3, Russia 8, San Marino 1, Serbia 2, Singapore 4, Slovenia 2, Spain 14, South Korea 18, Sweden 3, Switzerland 6, Thailand 1, Taiwan 5, Turkey 1, Ukraine 1, UK 22, Ungheria 4, USA 37, Venezuela 1.
After that the competition bureau checked the formal requirements of the participating compositions, the Jury President made a first selection for the “Compositions for chamber instrumental group or solo instrument” section (a) and the “Electro-acoustic music” section (b).
(a) The Finalists for the “Compositions for chamber instrumental group or solo instrument” section chosen by the whole Jury were:
Jacopo Aliboni - Italy
Utku Asuroglu - Turkey
Konstantinos Baras - Greece
Riccardo Belletti - Italy
Jean-Patrick Besingrand - France
Andrea Damiano Cotti - Italy
François Couvreur - Belgium
Misaki Goto - Japan
Haris Kittos - Greece
Massimo Lauricella
- Italy
Teodor Nicolau - Finland/Romania
Tommaso Scandroglio - Italy
Michael Seltenreich - Israel
Tomasz Skweres - Poland
Kazutomo Yamamoto - Japan
YoungWoo Yoo - South Korea
Among the Finalists the Jury selected:
Haris Kittos (Greece)
with the composition Dancechase
Tomasz Skweres (Poland)
with the composition 1. String Quartet
Konstantinos Baras (Greece)
with the composition About Sorrow
- Special mention and medal of the Camera dei Deputati della Repubblica Italiana for the “Compositions for chamber instrumental group or solo instrument” section (public performance and realization of a CD of the concert)
Andrea Damiano Cotti (Italy)
with the composition La tua aurora / la mia sera
- Special Mention with the awarding of a Plaque offered by the Italian Embassy in Oslo for this edition of the event for the “Compositions for chamber instrumental group or solo instrument” section (public performance and realization of a CD of the concert)
Massimo Lauricella (Italy)
with the composition Eco di un tempo perduto
YoungWoo Yoo (South Korea)
with the composition The unblossomed flower
The six selected compositions will be performed during “Contemporanea” festival in October 2016 in Udine (Italy).
(b) The Finalists for the “Electro-acoustic music” section chosen by the whole Jury were:
Andrew Babcock - USA
Manuella Blackburn - UK
Maxime Corbeil-Perron - Canada
Gustavo Adolfo Delgado - Argentina/Italy
Mei-Fang Lin - Taiwan
Felipe Otondo - Chile
Among the Finalists the Jury selected:
Andrew Babcock (USA)
with the composition Ventriloquy
Felipe Otondo (Chile)
with the composition Night Study 2
All the finalist compositions of the “Electroacoustic music” section will be performed during “Contemporanea” festival in October 2016 in Udine (Italy).
with the composition Ice Breaker
with the composition Cubic
with the composition Permanente e transitorio
with the composition Entre le son et la lumiere
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Vittorio Vella
Manager of TEM – Taukay Edizioni Musicali