CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI WINS GAUDEAMUS PRIZE 2007 At the final concert of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 3 to 9 September, the Gaudeamus Prize was awarded to the American composer Christopher Trapani (1980). He receives the award of 4,550 Euros, intended as a commission for a new work to be performed at the next edition of the International Gaudeamus Music Week in 2008. Trapani received the prize for Sparrow Episodes, a composition for ensemble and electric guitar, performed on September 5 at the “Muziekgebouw aan ’t Y” by the Asko Ensemble conducted by Etienne Siebens. Trapani himself was the soloist on electric guitar. There were three honorable mentions: Marko Nikodijevic (Serbia, 1980) received the mention for cvetic, kucica, performed on 3 September by the Ives Ensemble in the Muziekgebouw, Stelios Manousakis (Greece, 1980) for his tape-work Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees, played back op 5 September in the Bimhuis, and Vedran Mehinovic (Bosnia Herzegovina, 1981) received an honorable mention for RA, performed on 8 September in the Muziekgebouw by Holland Symfonia conducted by Fabrice Bollon. The Gaudeamus Prize and the honorable mentions were awarded by jury members Mary Finsterer (Australia), Kevin Volans (South-Africa), and Yannis Kyriakides (the Netherlands). For this year’s International Gaudeamus Music Week, which was open to composers under 31, the Gaudeamus Foundation received about 300 scores from all over the world; the jury subsequently selected seventeen works to compete for the Gaudeamus Prize 2007. There were two other competitions in de Gaudeamus Music Week: the Project Jonge Componisten (PJC) by Holland Symfonia, and the European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects. In the PJC three prizes were awarded: the ‘NOG Jonge Componistenprijs’ (4,000 Euros) and the Audience Prize both went to Dieter Dolezel for aber vielleicht, the ‘NOG Aanmoedigingsprijs’ was won by Max Knigge for Nazomer. The Prize for the electronic projects was won by Duo Con:Fusion for their work #Un4scene#. The next edition of the International Gaudeamus Music Week will take place from 1 to 7 September 2008 in Amsterdam. Deadline for applications is 31st of January 2008. Gaudeamus Contemporary Music Center Piet Heinkade 5 1019 BR Amsterdam The Netherlands Telephone: +31 - 20 - 5191800 info@gaudeamus.nl www.gaudeamus.nl