2022 GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS
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The Azrieli Music Prizes
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ABOUT THIS COMPETITION
The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition by awarding three prize packages each valued at $200,000 CAD: The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music and the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music.
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ELIGIBILITY
The 2024 Azrieli Music Prizes will call for works for a cappella choir. Composers will have the option to also include up to four (4) additional instruments and/or soloists. The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music is awarded to a composer who has written the best undiscovered work of Jewish music. Works may be nominated by individuals and institutions. Eligible works may have been premiered within 75 years of the award date, but must not have a significant performance history, and must not have been commercially recorded. The Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music is offered to encourage composers to creatively and critically engage with the question "What is Jewish music?" A commission is given to the composer who proposes a response to this question that displays the utmost creativity, artistry, technical mastery and professional expertise. Both Jewish Music Prizes are open to composers worldwide. Scores, proposals and supporting documents are accepted from nominators and individuals of all genders, faiths, backgrounds and affiliations. The winning submissions are chosen by the AMP Jury for Jewish Music. The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music is awarded to a Canadian composer to create a new musical work that creatively and critically engages with the complexities of composing concert music in Canada today. The prize is given to the composer who proposes a response to this challenge that displays the utmost creativity, artistry, technical mastery and professional expertise. Proposals and supporting documents are accepted from Canadians of all genders, faith, backgrounds and affiliations. The winning proposal is chosen by the AMP Jury for Canadian Music.
ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE
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| Travel Covered? | Yes |
| Frequency | Biennial |
| First prize | $10,000 to $50,000 |
| Additional prizes | Performances |
| Jury chair(s) | Jewish Prizes: Boris Brott, l'Orchestre Classique de Montréal; Canadian Prize: Ana Sokolovic, Université de Montréal |
| Additional jurors | Jewish Prizes Jury: Betty Olivero, music composition, Bar Ilan University; Brian Current, composer/conductor, artistic director, New Music Concerts; Neil Levin, artistic director, Milken Archive of Jewish Music; Steven Mercurio, conductor/music director, Czech National Symphony Orchestra Canadian Prize Jury: Andrew Staniland, composer/professor, Memorial University; Barbara Assiginaak, composer/professor, Wilfrid Laurier University; David Pay, artistic director, Music on Main; Mary Ingraham, musicologist/dean, Faculty of Arts, St. Mary's University |
| Jury size | 6 to 10 |
| Application fee | $0 |
| Application deadline | May 5, 2023 |
| Application notes | The next Call for Scores and Proposals for the 2024 competition will open on February 1, 2023. The focus will be on choral music. All three Prizes have a deadline of May 5, 2023. Submissions will be accepted via our Acceptd online application site. The 2024 AMP Laureates will be publicly announced no later than mid-November 2023. |
FINALS (live rounds)
The 2022 Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert will be held October 20, 2022, in Montréal, Canada, at Maison symphonique with Performance Partner l'Orchestre Métropolitain conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. AMP announced the Laureates of its 2022 competition on November 4, 2021. |
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COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?
| ✖ | Semifinals | ✖ | Semifinals streamed |
| ✔ | Finals | ✔ | Finals streamed |
PAST COMPETITION WINNERS
Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music
2022 Iman Habibi, The Evening Bird for Vocalist and Orchestra
2020 Yotam Haber, Estro Poetico-armonico III for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra
2018 Kelly-Marie Murphy, En el escuro es todo uno (In the Darkness All is One), a double-concerto for cello, harp and orchestra
2016 Brian Current, Seven Heavenly Halls for tenor, choir and orchestra
Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music
2022 Aharon Harlap, Out of the Depths have I cried unto Thee O'Lord for soprano and orchestra
2020 Yitzhak Yedid, Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed for 14 musicians
2018 Avner Dorman, "Nigumin (Violin Concerto No. 2)"
2016 Wlad Marhulets, "Klezmer Clarinet Concerto"
Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music
2022 Rita Ueda (Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music), Birds Calling from the True North Strong and Free, a double concerto for suona, sho and orchestra
2020 Keiko Devaux (Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music), Arras for 14 musicians
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