At the end of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2004, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 6 to 12 September, the GAUDEAMUS PRIZE was awarded to Sampo Haapamäki (Finland, 1979). He received the prize for Signature, a composition performed on September 11 in the Amsterdam ‘Beurs van Berlage’ by the Radio Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Etienne Siebens. The Gaudeamus Prize is 4550 Euros, intended as a commission for a new work to be performed in the following edition of the Music Week in 2005. There were two HONORABLE MENTIONS: Adrian Pavlov (Bulgaria, 1979) received an honourable mention for Harmonies, performed on September 6 by the Nieuw Ensemble, conducted by Otto Tausk; Anthony Pateras (Australia, 1979) received an honourable mention for Twitch, performed by the Twitch Ensemble on September 11, conducted by the composer. The composers who receive an honorable mention are asked, without commission, to propose a new or recent work for performance during the following Gaudeamus Music Week. The Gaudeamus Prize and the honorable mentions have been awarded by the jury consisting of Takayuki Rai (Japan), Karin Rehnqvist (Sweden), and Klas Torstensson (The Netherlands). For the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2004, open to composers under 31, the Gaudeamus Foundation received 439 scores from 42 countries; the jury selected 17 works to compete for the Gaudeamus Prize 2004. INTERNATIONAL GAUDEAMUS MUSIC WEEK 2004 Gaudeamus Prize 2004: Sampo Haapamäki Sampo Haapamäki (Finland, 1979) first studied composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Tapio Nevanlinna (1998-2002), and since 2002 with Veli-Matti Puumala. He has taken masterclasses from Magnus Lindberg, Luca Francesconi, Noël Lee, Jouni Kaipainen and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In 2003 Haapamäki was a finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Composition in Brussels and won Second Prize at the composers’ competition of the Baltic Academies of Music. He has also worked as a pianist, has been a member of Ears Open Society since 2000 and a member of Society of Finnish Composers since 2001. Works by Sampo Haapamäki have been performed at the following festivals: Klangspuren 2003 (Austria), Time of Music 2003 (Finland), Novelum 2003 (France), Ung Nordisk Musik 2001 (Denmark) & 2002 (Iceland) & 2003 (Norway), EUROPAMUSICALE 2004 (Germany), and Musica Nova 2003 & 2004 (Finland). His music has been performed by NYYD Ensemble (cond. Olari Elts), Nordlys Ensemble, John-Edward Kelly, Bob Versteegh, Susanne and Veli Kujala, The California Wind Orchestra (cond. Les Lehr), Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo, Risto-Matti Marin, Hanna Kinnunen, Sampo Haapamäki, Mikko Kauppinen, UMO Jazz Orchestra (cond. Kirmo Lintinen), Miika Jämsä, Academic Wind Band of Helsinki University (cond. Janne Ikonen), and Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. He is currently writing works for FORUM 2004, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (cond. Lorraine Vaillancourt), +Ensemble, and Linea Ensemble. Honorable Mention: Adrian Pavlov Adrian Pavlov (Bulgaria, 1979) began studying piano at the age of seven. From 1998-2003 he continued his piano studies with Georg Sava, and in 2002 began studying composition with Hanspeter Kyburz at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin. In 2003 he participated in a masterclass given by Henri Pousseur. Honorable Mention: Anthony Pateras Born in Australia in 1979, Anthony Pateras is a composer/pianist working at the nexus of notated composition, improvisation and electronics. His primary interests include post-1940s composition, Balkan folk music, real-time electronics, contemporary improvisation and noise. Initially studying composition at the LaTrobe University Department, his music has since been performed and broadcast throughout Europe, Russia, the US and Australia by performers such as the Flux Quartet, Slave Pianos, and percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson. Recently, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Markus Stenz premiered his Chromatophore for eight amplified strings. Pateras performs mainly on prepared piano in the Baxter-Brown-Pateras Trio, and with Robin Fox - this duo undertaking a highly successful tour of Europe, New York and Tokyo in April-May 2003, with a follow-up European tour in May-June 2004. Pateras and Fox have also performed at the What Is Music? Festival at the Sydney Opera House, Electrofringe Festival in Newcastle and have had pieces included at exhibitions such as Variable Resistance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Gating at West Space Melbourne. To date, Pateras has released four internationally acclaimed albums - Malfunction Studies, Coagulate (with Robin Fox), and Ataxia (with Sean Baxter and David Brown). Recently, his second collection of chamber works entitled ‘Mutant Theatre’ was released on John Zorn's legendary Tzadik label. In March 2004 the entire album was staged in Melbourne, conducted by Pateras and performed by some of Australia’s finest percussionists and improvisers. Pateras has also written music for short films screened at festivals in the US (Telluride, Hawaii, Mill Valley), South America (Rio, Sao Paulo), Russia (Message to Man), Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane) and Europe (Cannes, La Huesca, Dresden, Bilbao), winning the 2003 Klangmusik Preis for best score of an international film at the Dresden Film Festival. He is currently completing a PhD in composition at Monash University in Melbourne, lecturing and performing at universities in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra through March-April 2004.