Composition Jury

Zygmunt Krauze (b. 1938) is composer and pianist. He divides his work into four categories: the first is unistic (unitary) music inspired by the paintings of Władysław Strzemiński; the second – spatial compositions performed in specially constructed interiors; the third…

Tim Benjamin is a composer well known for his work (also as a director) in opera, most recently The Fire of Olympus; or, On Sticking It to the Man – which was also made into a feature film. He is…

Dan Dediu (b. 1967) studied composition in Bucharest with Ștefan Niculescu and Dan Constantinescu, and in Vienna with Francis Burt. He has composed more than 180 works covering almost all musical genres: five symphonies and 20 other pieces for orchestra,…

Jennifer Higdon makes her living from commissions and receives approximately 250 performances a year of her works. A Pulitzer Prize and three-time Grammy winner, Higdon works in many genres within classical music: from opera to chamber, symphonic to band, solo…

Born on July 6, 1951 in Bucharest, Adrian Iorgulescu is one of those multivalent musicians who, through a complex training in several fields, has distinguished himself creatively, theoretically, politically, pedagogically and administratively. He graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in…

Magnus Lindberg was born in Helsinki in 1958. Following piano studies, he entered the Sibelius Academy where his composition teachers included Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen. The latter encouraged his pupils to look beyond the prevailing Finnish conservative and nationalist…

Gerard McBurney is a composer and orchestrator, writer, lecturer, broadcaster and deviser, particularly known for his completions and reconstructions of lost and forgotten works by Shostakovich. After post-graduate study at the Moscow Conservatory in the 1980s, he spent many years…

Adrian Pop (b. Cluj, September 10, 1951) took his first music lessons from his father, the renowned choir conductor and professor Dorin Pop, and then studied composition at the Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca (1971-1976), where he studied…

“Doina Rotaru’s personal, unique and easily distinguishable style is based on an archetypal aesthetic that uses sound and timbral models that return to the primary Romanian and universal transgeographical folklore, as well as structural principles with symbolic value and function…

Outi Tarkiainen was born in Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, a place that has proved a constant source of inspiration for her. She has long been drawn to the expressive power of the human voice, but has written vocal, chamber and…

Coming from a family of artists, Elsa Vautrain was immersed in art field from a very young age; production, painting, writing, music, and haute couture are then part of his daily life. She got her classical guitar and chamber music…