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| Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) |
Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (annual competition of orchestral composition), which is a international composition award following Takemitsu's principles "Prayer, Hope, Peace", continues since 1997 to encourage younger generation of composers who will shape the coming age by creating new musical works.
The nucleus of this award is in its uniqueness that each year only one judge is responsible for the outcome. For the first 3-year cycle, Mr Takemitsu himself chose the following three composers to head the competition : Henri Dutilleux (1997), György Ligeti (1998), and Luciano Berio (1999). Then, after Mr Takemitsu’s passing, the three successors, Louis Andriessen (2000 recommended by Berio), Oliver Knussen (2001 recommended by Dutilleux) and Joji Yuasa (2002 recommended by Ligeti) were nominated by the initial judges.
For the third 3-year cycle (2003-2005), George Benjamin (2003), Magnus Lindberg (2004) and John Adams (2005 • cancelled) were nominated by recommendation from the Advisors (Hiroyuki Iwaki, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Kazushi Ohno, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hiroshi Wakasugi) and the predecessors.
For the fourth 3-year cycle (2007-2009), selection by the Advisors Committee members and the previous judges, Akira Nishimura (2007), Steve Reich (2008) and Helmut Lachenmann (2009) have been appointed as the judges.
Now, we are glad to announce that Tristan Murail (2010), Salvatore Sciarrino (2011) and Toshio Hosokawa (2012) has been appointed as new judges for the next 3-year cycle in a similar way, and would like to start the application process for coming three years with strong hope that we will see the birth of high quality works with the attractive originality.
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