Matthijs Vermeulen Award
The Matthijs Vermeulen Award is the most important Dutch composition prize. It was named after the Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen.
During the years 1972 through 2004, the prize was awarded annually by the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts. The award was discontinued from 2005, when the Amsterdam Foundation merged it with the Amsterdam Award for the Arts.
In March 2009, the Nederlands Foundation for Stage Arts announced it will renew the prize. The prize money is €20,000. Since its launch, the prize has been awarded twenty times more often to male than female composers.
List of award winners
- 1972: Jan van Vlijmen
- 1973: Peter Schat
- 1974: Willem Breuker
- 1975: Tristan Keuris
- 1976: not awarded
- 1977: Louis Andriessen
- 1978: Jeugd en Muziek / Leo Cuypers
- 1979: Otto Ketting
- 1980: Jan van Vlijmen
- 1981: Jan Boerman
- 1982: Ton de Leeuw
- 1983: Klaas de Vries
- 1984: Guus Janssen
- 1985: Dick Raaymakers
- 1986: Theo Loevendie
- 1987: Gottfried Michael Koenig
- 1988: Joep Straesser
- 1989: Jacques Bank
- 1990: Peter-Jan Wagemans
- 1991: Klas Torstensson
- 1992: Louis Andriessen
- 1993: Robert Heppener
- 1994: Dick Raaymakers
- 1995: not awarded
- 1996: Diderik Wagenaar
- 1997: Ton de Leeuw
- 1998: Klaas de Vries
- 1999: Ron Ford
- 2000: Richard Rijnvos
- 2001: Misha Mengelberg
- 2002: Peter-Jan Wagemans
- 2003: Richard Ayres
- 2004: Michel van der Aa
- 2005–2008: not awarded
- 2009: Boudewijn Tarenskeen
- 2011: Richard Rijnvos
- 2013: Jan van de Putte
- 2015: Peter Adriaansz
- 2017: Kate Moore
- 2019: Aart Strootman
- 2021: Calliope Tsoupaki
- 2023: Pete Harden