The jury, this year consisting of Mary Finsterer (Australia), Kevin Volans (South Africa) and Yannis Kyriakides (Cyprus/the Netherlands), made a selection of seventeen works out of more than threehundred and eighty entries written by composers from fifty-four different countries ranging from Argentina to Iceland and from Taiwan to Costa-Rica. The selected pieces will be performed in the Music Week and are nominated for the Gaudeamus Prize. At the end of the festival the jury awards the Gaudeamus Prize for best work. In addition to these selected works, a number of compositions by young composers will be programmed. A preliminary program will be available on our website in May. The selected pieces will be performed during this Festival, which take place from 3 to 9 September in Amsterdam, and are nominated for the Gaudeamus Prize. Orchestra Dieter Dolezel (Germany/the Netherlands, 1977) – aber vielleicht Vedran Mehinovic (Bosnia/Herzegovina, 1981) - RA Andrea Sarto (Italy, 1979) - Enbrayage Chamber Music Evis Sammoutis (Cyprus, 1979) - Echopraxia (for string sextet) Marko Nikodijevic (Serbia, 1980) - cvetic, kucica…/la lugubre gondola (funeral music after Franz Liszt) (for ensemble of 13 players) Ignacio Fernandéz Bollo (Chile, 1980) - 7 solos for violoncello, from: Canto a una Plantita - poema epico - Hikari Kiyama (Japan, 1983) - Over Drive Chorus (for four players) Dieter Dolezel (Germany/the Netherlands, 1977) - Hoax (for 3pianists, 1 amplified piano and sound track) Hillary Zipper (U.S.A., 1979) - A field guide to falling snow (for string quartet) Christopher Trapani (U.S.A., 1980) - Sparrow Episodes (for sixteen players) Esaias Järnegard Fogelvik (Sweden, 1983) - Around a sea (for amplified mixed choir and electronics) Andrew Hamilton (Ireland, 1977) - Music for Roger Casement (for eleven instruments) Fabian Svensson (Sweden, 1980) - Tillvaratagna effekter - 25 unfettered movements for violin and electric guitar ensemble Jane Stanley (Australia, 1976) - Triptych (for two percussionists) Electronic Music Hugo Morales Murguia (Mexico, 1979) - Top your buffer (for computer and processed guitar) Stelios Manousakis (Greece, 1980) - Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees? (electronic music) Juan Andrés Verdaguer (Argentina, 1980) - Embryen (for electronics and seven instruments) Project Young Composers The orchestra Holland Symfonia organizes for the 18th time the ‘Project Jonge Componisten’ (Project Young Composers), this year in cooperation with the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007. Young composers from or living in the Netherlands were asked to send their pieces for orchestra. The four selected pieces will be performed during the Gaudeamus Music Week, together with the nominated pieces for the Gaudeamus Prize. At the end of the concert the prize winners will be announced. SNS REAAL sponsors the prices: the SNS REAAL ‘Jonge Componistenprijs’ of € 4.000 the SNS REAAL aanmoedigingsprijs (stimulation prize) of € 1.350. Selected compositions for the ‘Project Jonge Componisten’: Dieter Dolezel (Germany/the Netherlands, 1977) – aber vielleicht Max Knigge (1984, the Netherlands) – Nazomer Evrim Demirel (1977, Turkey/ the Netherlands) – Heterophonic Igor Maia (1988, Brazil/ the Netherlands) – Funeral Memories GAUDEAMUS Contemporary Music Center Piet Heinkade 5 1019 BR Amsterdam info@gaudeamus.nl www.gaudeamus.nl