The Matthijs Vermeulen Award is the most important Dutch composition prize. It was named after the
Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen
Matthijs Vermeulen (born Matheas Christianus Franciscus van der Meulen) (8 February 1888 – 26 July 1967), was a Dutch composer and music journalist.
Early life
Matthijs Vermeulen was born in Helmond. After primary school he initially wante ...
(1888–1967).
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 (
Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst).
In March 2009, the Nederlands Foundation for Stage Arts announced it will renew the prize. The prize money is €20,000.
List of award winners
*1972:
Jan van Vlijmen (Omaggio a Gesualdo)
*1973:
Peter Schat
Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935, in Utrecht – 3 February 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer.
Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the Utrecht Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then ...
(To You)
*1974:
Willem Breuker
Willem Breuker (4 November 1944 – 23 July 2010) was a Dutch bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
Career
During the mid 1960s, he played with percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, co-founding the Insta ...
(Het paard van Troje)
*1975:
Tristan Keuris
Tristan Keuris (3 October 1946 in Amersfoort – 15 December 1996 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer.
Life and career
Keuris initially studied with Jan van Vlijmen in Amersfoort. At the age of 15 he started his studies with Ton de Leeuw at the U ...
(Sinfonia)
*1976: ''not awarded''
*1977:
Louis Andriessen
Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although ...
(De Staat)
*1978: Jeugd en Muziek (Zeeland) /
Leo Cuypers (Zeelandsuite)
*1979:
Otto Ketting
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded f ...
(Symphony for saxophones and orchestra)
*1980:
Jan van Vlijmen (Quatemi)
*1981:
Jan Boerman (whole
oeuvre)
*1982:
Ton de Leeuw
Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality.
Life and career
Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth i ...
(Car mes vignes sont en fleur)
*1983:
Klaas de Vries (Discantus)
*1984:
Guus Janssen
Guus Janssen (born 13 May 1951) is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist. A pianist and harpsichordist, he is also active as a jazz performer.
He studied piano and composition at the Sweelinck Academy of Music in Amster ...
(Ternet)
*1985:
Dick Raaymakers
Dick Raaijmakers (Maastricht, 1 September 1930 – The Hague, 4 September 2013), also known as Dick Raaymakers or Kid Baltan, was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape mu ...
(Extase)
*1986:
Theo Loevendie
Johan Theodorus Loevendie (born 17 September 1930 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.
Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the music academy (Conservatorium) of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. A ...
(Naima)
*1987:
*1988:
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* Joep Baartmans-van den Boogaart (born 1939), Dutch female politician
* Joep van Beeck (1930–2011) ...
(Über Erich M.)
*1989:
Jacques Bank (Requiem voor een levende)
*1990:
Peter-Jan Wagemans (Rosebud)
*1991:
Klas Torstensson
Klas Torstensson (born 16 January 1951) is a Swedish-Dutch composer.
Career
Torstensson was born in Nässjö, and studied composition Ingesunds Musikhögskola, musicology at Göteborgs universitet and electronic music at the Institute for So ...
(Stick on Stick)
*1992:
Louis Andriessen
Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although ...
(M. is for Man, Music and Mozart; Facing Death, Dances, Hout en Lacrimosa)
*1993:
Robert Heppener
Robert Heppener (9 August 1925 in Amsterdam – 25 August 2009 in Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second ...
(Im Gestein)
*1994:
Dick Raaymakers
Dick Raaijmakers (Maastricht, 1 September 1930 – The Hague, 4 September 2013), also known as Dick Raaymakers or Kid Baltan, was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape mu ...
(Der Fall/Dépons; Die glückliche Hand — Geöffnet)
*1995: ''not awarded''
*1996:
Diderik Wagenaar
Diderik Wagenaar (born 10 May 1946 in Utrecht) is a Dutch composer and musical theorist.
Life and work
Wagenaar has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born to a musical family that includes Johan Wagenaar, he began playing piano at ...
(Trois Poèmes; Prose)
*1997:
Ton de Leeuw
Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality.
Life and career
Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth i ...
(Three Shakespeare Songs)
*1998:
Klaas de Vries (A king, riding en Interludium for
string orchestra
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)
*1999:
Ron Ford (Salome Fast)
*2000:
Richard Rijnvos
Richard Rijnvos (born 16 December 1964, in Tilburg) is a Dutch composer.[Richard Rijnvos](_blank)
Department of Mus ...
(Times Square Dance)
*2001:
Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 459. Oxford University Press. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz ...
(Opera 2000)
*2002:
Peter-Jan Wagemans (Moloch)
*2003:
Richard Ayres
Richard Ayres (born 29 October 1965, Cornwall) is a British composer and music teacher.
Biography
Born in Cornwall, England, Richard Ayres followed Morton Feldman's classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied composition, ...
(No. 36 NONcerto)
*2004:
Michel van der Aa
Michel van der Aa (; born 10 March 1970) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.
Early years
Michel van der Aa was born 10 March 1970 in Oss. He trained as a recording engineer at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and studie ...
(''
One'')
*2005–2008: ''not awarded''
*2009:
Boudewijn Tarenskeen (''Mattheus Passie'')
*2011:
Richard Rijnvos
Richard Rijnvos (born 16 December 1964, in Tilburg) is a Dutch composer.[Richard Rijnvos](_blank)
Department of Mus ...
(''Die Kammersängerin'')
*2013:
Jan van de Putte (''Kagami-Jishi'' for piano solo and orchestra)
*2015:
Peter Adriaansz (Scala II)
*2017:
Kate Moore (The Dam)
* 2019:
Aart Strootman (Shambling Emerge – after party)
* 2021:
Calliope Tsoupaki
Calliope Tsoupaki ( gr, Καλλιόπη Τσουπάκη; born 27 May 1963) is a Greek pianist and composer.
Biography
Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in Athens and ...
(Thin Air)
References
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