Basel Composition Competition (on-demand until 6/7/2021)
$5
Join the final concert of the Basel Composition Competition, one of the most important prizes for contemporary music worldwide. The event includes performances of nominated works, plus interviews with the composers and the prize announcement.
The third edition of the Basel Composition Competition will take place March 4-7, 2021. Since its foundation in 2017, the competition has taken place every other year, and for the 2021 edition a total of seven works for symphony orchestra and five for chamber orchestra were selected from more than 260 submitted scores. Orchestral works that have not yet been performed and have not yet been awarded a prize were eligible.
The nominees for the concerts are:
Sinfonieorchester Basel
Artur Akshelyan (ARM) – Three Pieces for Orchestra
Christian Bloquert (FRA) – Le Temps Qui Se Perd Dans Ses Yeux
Oliver Mattern (GER) – … cum ex re …
Eneko Vadillo (ESP) – SCULPTEO
Basel Sinfonietta
Andrea Mattevi (ITA) – Respiro sul lato dell'abisso
Hiroshi Nakamura (JPN) – Nue
Yiqing Zhu (CHN) – Deep Grey
Kammerorchester Basel
Fernando Garcia Marquez (ESP) – ESPEJO DEL DOLOR
Nicholas Gotch (UK) – TENEBRAE
Angel Hernández-Lovera (VEN) – Nocturno Onírico
Miguel Morate (ESP) – Comme s’en va cette onde
Hyeon Joon Sohn (KOR) – PROSKUENEO
The final concert will feature three to four works from the competition, and culminate in the announcement of the prize winners, chosen by a jury chaired by the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell and including the composers Usunk Chin, Beat Furrer, and Andrea Scartazzini, as well as and the director of the Paul Sacher Foundation, Dr Felix Meyer. The Basel Composition Competition awards an amount of CHF 100,000 (divided among three winners), making it one of the most important prizes for the support of Contemporary Music worldwide.
The broadcast will become available March 7 at 11am Pacific. Stream available for 3 months.
Your ticket purchase will directly support the participating artists through IDAGIO’s Fair Artist Payout Model: IDAGIO pays 80% of the net revenue directly to the performers.