The ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2008

Diana Rotaru (1981, Romania) received the Prize for Shakti" (or Sakti) concerto for saxophone and orchestra performed on October 27 by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

The award was inaugurated in 2002 and will be presented each year to a selected composer under 35 whose work is featured in the annual ISCM World Music Days.
The award consists of a special commission (5000 Euro) to write a chamber ensemble piece to be premiered during the International Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

With this initiative the ISCM and IAMIC foster the development of contemporary music through the promotion of young talents in the contemporary music field. For four years in a row the ISCM Young Composer Award was generously supported by CASH, the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong.

The 2008 ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award was judged by a distinguished panel of international composers appointed by the ISCM. Announcement of the Winner and prize took place in the intermission of the concert at the National Philharmonic Hall 30th October by Olga Smetanova, President of the IAMIC and Henk Heuvelmans, Secretary General of the ISCM and head of the contemporary music department of the Music Center the Netherlands in Amsterdam.