Toru Takemitsu Composition Award
The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is an international music competition for young composers organized in Tokyo, Japan.
History
The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award was established in 1997.Each year, only one judge picks the winner of the award. For the first 3-year cycle, Takemitsu himself chose the judges: Henri Dutilleux, György Ligeti, and Luciano Berio. Then, after Takemitsu's death, the three successors, Louis Andriessen, Oliver Knussen and Joji Yuasa were nominated by the initial judges.
For the third 3-year cycle, George Benjamin, Magnus Lindberg and John Adams were nominated on the recommendation of the competition's advisors and preceding judges.
For the fourth 3-year cycle, the advisors and previous judges selected Akira Nishimura, Steve Reich and Helmut Lachenmann.
Tristan Murail, Salvatore Sciarrino and Toshio Hosokawa were appointed as judges for the new 2010-2012 cycle.
The nominated pieces are performed at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.
As of 2011, fifty different composers had been nominated for this prize since its inception in 1997.
The total sum of the cash award is 3,000,000 Yen each year.
Results
The winners are:| Year | Judge | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize | 4th prize | Notes |
| 1997 | not awarded |
| PAGAN II by Marc Kenneth Yeats | - | ||
| 1998 | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | - | ||
| 1999 | "Uninterrupted Song" by Katsuji Maeda | "DINAMORPHIA" by Ken Itō | "Polychrome" by Toshiya Watanabe | - | ||
| 2000 | "L'été – L'oubli rouge" by Jun Nagao | "AWAKENINGS" by Joe Cutler | "Pulsating" by Sho Ueda | - | ||
| 2001 | "5 pieces for orchestra" by Luke Bedford | "Stein/Stern" by Ryuji Kubota | - | |||
| 2002 | "Tzolkin" by | - | ||||
| 2003 | "Allégories" by Joël Mérah | "Calling Timbuktu" by Dai Fujikura | - | |||
| 2004 | "Fantasia on a Theme by Vaughan Williams" by Paul Stanhope | - | ||||
| 2005 | The competition was cancelled | - | ||||
| 2006 | There was no competition | - | ||||
| 2007 | "Never Stand Behind Me" by Sho Ueda | "CUBE" by Andrea Portera | - | |||
| 2008 | "What dou you think about the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?" by Yuichi Matsumoto | "La Noche de Takemitsu" by Tomás Barreiro | - | |||
| 2009 | "Hexagonal Pulsar" by Kenji Sakai | - | ||||
| 2010 | "...Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" by Roberto Toscano | "Deux Presages" by Chikako Yamanaka | - | |||
| 2011 | "Flux et reflux" by Florent Motsch-Etienne | "Subliminal" by Bernd Richard Deutsch | - | |||
| 2012 | "Mano d'erba, per orchestra" by Federico Gardella | "Une Œuvre pour l'Echo des Rêves, pour orchestra" by Ioannis Angelakis |
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| 2013 | "SIGHS – hommage à Fryderyk Chopin" by Marcin Stańczyk | "The Lark in the Snow" by Sumio Kobayashi | - | |||
| 2014 | "THE NORTHERN CAMELLIA – GRADATION OF SOUNDING AMITY No. 2" by Kei Daigo | "Until the Sea Above Us Is Closed Again" Giovanni Dario Manzini | - | |||
| 2015 | not awarded | - | ||||
| 2016 | not awarded | - | ||||
| 2017 | "Paysages entrelacés pour orchestre" by Naoki Sakata | not awarded | - | |||
| 2018 | not awarded | - | ||||
| 2019 | "Im Bauch des Fisches drei Tage und drei Nächte " by Siqi Liu | "At The End Of Snow Line" by Zhuosheng Jin | - | |||
| 2020 | "BORÉAS" by Xinyang Wang | "SIX PRAYERS" by David Roche | "POÈMES DE MIDI" by Francisco Domínguez | "Saṃsāra" by Carmen Ho | - | |
| 2021 | "Moonlight Hidden in the Clouds" by Kohsuke Negishi | "BREAKING A MIRROR" by Giorgio Francesco Dalla Villa |
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