The International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council

International Music Council

The International Music Council was created in 1949 as UNESCO's advisory body on matters of music. It is based at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France, where it functions as an independent international non-governmental organization...

 that offers broadcasting

Broadcasting

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 representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...

. It is funded by contributions from participating national radio networks.

The first Rostrum took place in 1954 and involved delegates from the German, French, Belgian and Swiss national broadcasting companies. From then until 2002 the Rostrum's sessions were held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, with the exception of 2000 when they were hosted by Muziek Groep Nederland and the Gaudeamus Foundation

Gaudeamus Foundation

The Gaudeamus Foundation and Contemporary Music Center is a renowned center for contemporary music. The Gaudeamus Foundation organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts both in the Netherlands and abroad...

 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

. Since 2003, a rotation system has been in place, where the Rostrum is hosted every other year by Radio France

Radio France

Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...

 and in the intervening year visits a European venue.

Over thirty national radio networks now send delegates, presenting in total sixty or so works each year that have been composed no more than five years previously. Following sessions of listening and discussion, the delegates highlight one of the works submitted (that year's "selected work") and recommend a number of the others. They also highlight one or two works by composers under the age of thirty and recommend one or two others. These selected and recommended works are those most likely to be broadcast or played in concerts sponsored by the participating networks or others that follow the Rostrum's deliberations. All works presented are offered by the European Broadcasting Union

European Broadcasting Union

The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 74 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 49 associate broadcasters from a further 25...

 to its members via satellite. Copies of recordings, scores and notes featured during the forum are kept at the Gaudeamus Foundation.

From 1991 until 2003 the composer of each year’s selected work was awarded the UNESCO Mozart Medal

UNESCO Mozart Medal

The UNESCO Mozart Medal is an award named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and administered by UNESCO.-Recipients:* Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 1991* Alicia Terzian, 1995* Elfi von Dassanowsky, 1996...

. Since 2004 the composer of each year’s selected work is awarded the UNESCO Picasso-Miró Medal and the composer or composers under the age of thirty whose work or works are selected are awarded the Guy Huot Bursary

Bursary

A bursary is strictly an office for a bursar and his or her staff in a school or college.In modern English usage, the term has become synonymous with "bursary award", a monetary award made by an institution to an individual or a group to assist the development of their education.According to The...

 for young composers.

List of winners

The International Rostrum of Composers has two main categories:

• the general category (the names of the winners are listed in bold)
• the category of composers under 30 years of age.

Usually there is one winner in each category, but sometimes there are more winners.

2011

• Francesco Filidei
  Francesco Filidei
  Francesco Filidei is an Italian organist and composer, student of Salvatore Sciarrino and Jean Guillou.He imagines music which has lost the sound element.-Notes:...
  
  (1973, Italy): Macchina per scoppiare Pagliacci, for double orchestra (2005)
• Juan Pablo Nicoletti (1983, Argentina): Abismo al Abismo, electroacoustic work (2011)

2010

• Simon Steen-Andersen (1976, Denmark): Ouvertures (Part 1), for guzheng, sampler and orchestra (2008)
• Kristaps Pētersons (1982, Latvia): Twilight Chants, for mixed choir, double bass and glasses (2009)

2009

• Martijn Padding
  Martijn Padding
  Martijn Padding is a Dutch composer. Taught by Louis Andriessen , Geert van Keulen and Fania Chapiro . He also studied sonology at the University of Utrecht. He is a teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.-References:*-External links:**...
  
  (1956, Netherlands): First Harmonium Concerto, for harmonium and orchestra (2008)
• Justė Janulytė (1982, Lithuania): Aquarelle, for mixed choir (2007)

2008

• Misato Mochizuki (1969, Japan): L'Heure Bleue, for orchestra (2007)
• Florent Motsch (1980, France): Memoire du Vent, for orchestra (2006)

2007

• Erin Gee (1974, USA): Mouth Piece IX, for voice and orchestra (2006)
• Ülo Krigul (1978, Estonia): Jenzeits, for orchestra (2005)

2006

• Arnulf Herrmann (1968, Germany): Terzenseele, for ensemble (2005-06)
• Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977, Latvia): Légende de la femme emmurée, for mixed choir (2005)

2005

• Mārtiņš Viļums (1974, Latvia): Le temps scintille..., for mixed choir (2003)
• Luke Bedford (1978, United Kingdom): Rode with darkness, for large orchestra (2003)

2004

• Helena Tulve
  Helena Tulve
  Helena Tulve is an Estonian composer.Born in Tartu, she studied composition at the Tallinn Secondary Music School under Alo Põldmäe and from 1989–1992 at the Estonian Academy of Music with Erkki-Sven Tüür, being the latter’s sole student of composition thus far...
  
  (1972 Estonia): Sula (Thawing), for orchestra (1999)
• Santa Ratniece (1977, Latvia): Sens nacre, for ensemble (2004)
• Abigail Richardson (1976, Canada): dissolve, for harp, piano, percussion (2002)

2003 (the 50th edition)

• Hanna Kulenty
  Hanna Kulenty
  Hanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw and in Arnhem .- Musical education :...
  
  (1961, Poland): Trumpet Concerto, for trumpet and symphony orchestra (2002)
• Johannes Maria Staud (1974, Austria): Polygon for piano and orchestra (2002)

2002

• Anders Hillborg (1954, Sweden): Dreaming River, for orchestra (1999)
• Daniel Vacs (1972, Argentina): Viento negro, for violin (2002)

2001

• Uljas Pulkkis (1975, Finland): Enchanted Garden, for violin and orchestra (2000)
• Brian Current (1972, Canada): For the time being, for orchestra (1999)

2000

• Georg Friedrich Haas
  Georg Friedrich Haas
  Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer of spectral music.He grew up in Tschagguns and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz...
  
  (1953, Austria): Violin Concerto, for violin and orchestra (1998)
• Jüri Reinvere
  Jüri Reinvere
  Jüri Reinvere is an Estonian-born composer and poet living in Berlin, Germany. Since 2005 he has used his own poetry as spoken word as an integrated part of his music...
  
   (1971, Estonia): Loodekaar, for chamber ensemble (1998)

1999

• Brett Dean
  Brett Dean
  Brett Dean is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor.-Career:Dean studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he received a Medal of Excellence. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as a freelance...
  
  (1961, Australia): Ariel's Music, for clarinet and orchestra (1995)
• Rolf Wallin
  Rolf Wallin
  Rolf Wallin is a Norwegian composer, trumpeter and avant-garde performance artist.Rolf Wallin has established a reputation as one of the leading Scandinavian composers of his generation. He studied in Oslo with Finn Mortensen and Olav Anton Thommessen and later at the University of California...
  
   (1957, Norway): Ground, for cello and string orchestra (1997)
• Maja Ratkje
  Maja Ratkje
  Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, born 29 December 1973 in Trondheim, is a Norwegian vocalist and composer. She performs and releases music for concerts, recordings, films, installations, theatre, dance and other performances. Maja is a member of SPUNK, a Norwegian improv group, and Agrare, a...
  
   (1973, Norway): Waves II B, for chamber orchestra (1997-78)

1998

• Pascal Dusapin
  Pascal Dusapin
  Pascal Dusapin , is a French composer born in Nancy. He is one of France's best-known living composers; his works have been performed worldwide....
  
  (1955, France): Watt, for trombone and orchestra (1994)
• Tommi Kärkkäinen (1969, Finland): Seven miniatures, for orchestra (1996)

1997

• Marc-Andre Dalbavie (1961, France): Violin Concerto, for violin and orchestra (1997)
• Thomas Heinisch (1968, Austria): Abglanz und Schweigen, for chamber ensemble (1996)

1996

• Pär Lindgren (1952, Sweden): Oaijé, for orchestra (1993)
• Mari Vihmand (1967, Estonia): Floreo, for orchestra (1995-96)

1995

• Michio Kitazume (1948, Japan): Ei-Sho, for orchestra (1993)
• Paweł Mykietyn (1971, Poland): 3 for 13, for chamber orchestra (1994)

1994

1994 International Rostrum of Composers

The 40th edition of the International Rostrum of Composers took place from May 9–13 1994. It was the third time in a row a Finnish composer won the senior category.-Recommended Works:** Thomas Adès - Living Toys** Mogens Christensen - Winter Light...

• Eero Hämeenniemi (1951, Finland): Nattuvanar, for chamber ensemble (1993)
• Thomas Adès
  Thomas Adès
  Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...
  
   (1971, United Kingdom): Living Toys, for chamber orchestra (1993)

1993

1993 International Rostrum of Composers

The 1993 International Rostrum of Composers was the 39th edition of the forum. Finnish composer Kimmo Hakola won the UNESCO Mozart Medal with Capriole, a 1991 composition for cello and double bass.-Recommended Works:** Jorge Antunes - Idiosynchronie...

• Kimmo Hakola (1958, Finland): Capriole, for bass and cello (1991)
• Gisle Kverndokken (1967, Norway): Initiation, for violin and orchestra (1992)

1992

• Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...
  
  (1955, Finland): Floof, for soprano and chamber orchestra (1982)
• Jesper Koch (1967, Denmark): Icebreaking, for two accordion and percussion (1991)

1991

• Thomas Demenga (1954, Switzerland): Solo per due, for cello and orchestra (1990)
• Chris Harman (1970, Canada): Iridescence, for 24 strings (1990)

1990

• Edith Canat de Chizy (1950, France): Yell, for orchestra (1985)
• Benoit Mernier (1964, Belgium): Artifices, for organ (1989)

1989

• Daniel Börtz (1943, Sweden): Parodos, for orchestra (1987)
• Jukka Koskinen (1965, Finland): String Quartet, (1987)

1988

• Jukka Tiensuu
  Jukka Tiensuu
  Jukka Tiensuu is a Finnish contemporary classical composer, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.His repertoire as musician ranges from baroque music to John Cage and free improvisation and he has given master classes in baroque performance practice and free improvisation.He has written as well...
  
  (1948, Finland): Tokko, for male choir and computer-generated tape (1987)
• Srdjan Dedic (1965, Croatia): Snake charmer, for bass clarinet (1986)

1987

• Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...
  
  (1943, Australia): Piano Concerto, for piano and orchestra (1985)
• Kimmo Hakola
  Kimmo Hakola
  Kimmo Hakola is a Finnish composer of notational music born in 1958 in Jyväskylä. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Magnus Lindberg...
  
   (1958, Finland): String Quartet, (1986)

1986

• Magnus Lindberg
  Magnus Lindberg
  Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...
  
  (1958, Finland): Kraft, for clarinet, cello, piano, 2 percussion, orchestra and tape (1983-85)
• Luc Brewaeys (1959, Belgium): E poi c 'era, for orchestra (1985)

1985

• Alejandro Iglesias Rossi (1960, Argentina): Ancestral Rites of a Forgotten Culture, mezzo and 6 percussion (1983)
• George Benjamin
  George Benjamin (composer)
  George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....
  
   (1960, United Kingdom): At first light, oboe and orchestra (1982)

1984

• Eugeniusz Knapik (1951, Poland): String Quartet, (1980)
• Alessandro Solbiati (1956, Italy): Di Luce, for violin and orchestra (1982)

1983

• György Kurtág
  György Kurtág
  György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...
  
  (1926, Hungary): Messages de feu demoiselle R.V. Troussova, soprano and chamber orchestra (1976-80)
• Detlev Müller-Siemens (1957, Germany): Passacaglia, for orchestra (1978)

1982

• Yoshihisa Taïra (1938, France): Meditations, for orchestra (1982)
• Magnus Lindberg (1958, Finland): ... de Tartuffe, je crois, for piano quintet (1981)

1981

• Frederik van Rossum (1939, Belgium): Réquisitoire, for brass ensemble and percussion (1973)
• Jouni Kaipainen (1956, Finland): Trois morceaux de l’aube, for cello and piano (1980-81)

1980

• Akira Nishimura
  Akira Nishimura
  is a Japanese composer.Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He also studied Asiatic traditional music, religion, aesthetics, cosmology and the heterophonic concepts, all of which had a lasting influence on his...
  
  (1953, Japan): Ketiak, for 6 percussion (1979)
• Aleksander Lason (1951, Poland): Symphony No. 1, for brass winds, percussion, 2 pianos (1975)

1979

• Charles Chaynes (1925, France): Pour un monde noir, 4 poems for soprano and orchestra (1976)
• Young-Hi Pagh-Pann (1945, South Korea): Man-Nam, for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1977)

1978

• Manfred Trojahn (1949, Germany): String Quartet (1976)

1977

• Louis Andriessen
  Louis Andriessen
  Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
  
  (1932, Netherlands): De Staat, for 4 female vocal soloists and 27 instruments (1972-76)

1976

• Dimitri Tapkov (1929, Bulgaria): Cantate pour la paix, for soprano, choir and orchestra (1975)
• Tomás Marco
  Tomás Marco
  Tomás Marco Aragón is a Spanish composer and writer on music.-Life and work:Marco studied violin and composition in Madrid while at the same time pursuing the study of law...
  
   (1942, Spain): Autodafé, for piano, organ, three instrumental groups, and violins in echo (1975)

1975

• Zsolt Durkó (1934, Hungary): Burial prayer, oratorios for tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra (1967-72)
• Boris Ulrich (Yugoslavia): Sinfonia Vespro, (1974)

1974

• Hans Kox (1930, Netherlands): L 'Allegri, soprano and orchestra, (1967)
• Marek Stachowski (1936, Poland): Neuzis II, vocal ensemble, Celli, contra basses and percussion (1968)
• Teizo Matsumura (1929, Japan): Piano Concerto No 1, piano and orchestra (1973)
• Marlo Nobre (1939, Brazil): Biosfera, string orchestra, (1970)
• Ladislav Kubík
  Ladislav Kubik
  Ladislav Kubík is a contemporary Czech-American composer. His style is associated with other post-war Eastern European composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski....
  
  (1946, Czechoslovakia): Lament of the Warrior's Wife, for soprano, viola, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, and tape (1974)
• Salvatore Sciarrino (1947, Italy): Rondo, flute and sextet, (1972)

1973

• Henryk Górecki
  Henryk Górecki
  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...
  
  (1933, Poland): Ad Matrem, for soprano, choir and orchestra (1971)
• Giacomo Manzoni (1932, Italy): Paroles de Beckett, 2 choirs, 3 groups of instruments and tape (1971)
• Peter Schat (1935, Netherlands): To You, mezzo-soprano and 21 electric instruments (1972)

1972

• Sandor Balassa (1935, Hungary): Requiem for Lajos reserve, for choir and orchestra (1968-69)

1971

• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
  
  (1929, USA): Ancient Voices of Children, soprano and octet (1970)
• Peter Ruzicka
  Peter Ruzicka
  Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music.Peter Ruzicka was born in Düsseldorf on July 3, 1948. He received his early musical training at the Hamburg Conservatory. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte...
  
   (1948, West Germany): Metastrophe, an attempt at a break out for 87 instrumentalist, orchestra (1971)

1970

• András Szőllősy
  András Szőllősy
  András Szőllősy was the creator of the Szőllősy index , a frequently used index for the works of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, was born at Szászváros in Transylvania on February 27, 1921. He studied composition under Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music where he was a professor of...
  
  (1921, Hungary): Concerto No. 3, for sixteen strings (1969)
• Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
  Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
  Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.Haubenstock-Ramati studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy in Kraków and Lemberg from 1937 to 1940. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. From 1947 to 1950 he was...
  
   (1919, Poland): Symphony K, for orchestra (1967)
• Steven Gellmann (1947, Canada): Mythos II, for flute and string quartet (1968)

1969

• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
  (1923, Hungary/Austria): Lontano, for orchestra (1967)

1968

• Witold Lutosławski (1913, Poland): Symphony No. 2, for orchestra (1966-7)
• Jan Kapr
  Jan Kapr
  Jan Kapr was one of the most prolific Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century.- Life :He studied at the Prague Conservatory, as a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký, and at the master school under Jaroslav Křička. In 1939–1946 he worked as a director in the Czechoslovak Radio...
  
   (1914, Czechoslovakia): Exercises pour Gydli, for soprano, flute and harp (1967)
• John Tavener
  John Tavener
  Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...
  
   (1944, United Kingdom): The Whale, dramatic cantata (1966)

1967

• Luboš Fišer
  Luboš Fišer
  Luboš Fišer was a Czech composer, born in Prague. He was known both for his soundtracks and chamber music. From 1952 to 1956 he studied the composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Emil Hlobil. From 1956 he studied at the AMU in Prague...
  
  (1935, Czechoslovakia): Fifteen Prints after Dürer’s Apocalypse, for orchestra (1965)
• Franco Donatoni
  Franco Donatoni
  Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
  
  (1927, Italy): Puppenspiel No, for flute and orchestra (1965)

1966

• Tadeusz Baird
  Tadeusz Baird
  Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.He was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to Scottish immigrant parents. He studied composition, piano and musicology in Warsaw with, among others, Kazimierz Sikorski. In 1956, with Serocki, he founded the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival...
  
  (1928, Poland): Four Dialogues, for oboe and chamber orchestra (1965)

1965

• Angelo Paccagnini (1930, Italy): Wind in the Wind, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1964)
• Tōru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
  
  (1930, Japan): Textures from the Arc, for piano and orchestra (1964)

1964

• Angelo Paccagnini (1930, Italy): Actuelles, for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra (1963-64)
• Witold Lutosławski (1913, Poland): Three poems by Henri Michaux, for 20 voice choir and orchestra (1963)

1963

• Niccolò Castiglioni
  Niccolò Castiglioni
  Niccolò Castiglioni was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music.Castiglioni was born and raised in Milan, where he began studying piano at the age of 7. He received his performer's diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1952, and graduated there in composition in 1953...
  
  (1932, Italy): Decors, for orchestra (1962)
• Tadeusz Baird
  Tadeusz Baird
  Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.He was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to Scottish immigrant parents. He studied composition, piano and musicology in Warsaw with, among others, Kazimierz Sikorski. In 1956, with Serocki, he founded the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival...
  
  (1928, Poland): Variations without a theme, for orchestra (1962)
• Tōru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
  
  (1930, Japan): Kan Sho (Coral Island), for soprano and orchestra (1962)

1962

• Luigi Nono
  Luigi Nono
  Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...
  
  (1924, Italy): España en el corazon, for soprano, baritone, choir and instruments, (1952)
• Niccolò Castiglioni
  Niccolò Castiglioni
  Niccolò Castiglioni was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music.Castiglioni was born and raised in Milan, where he began studying piano at the age of 7. He received his performer's diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1952, and graduated there in composition in 1953...
  
   (1932, Italy): Through the Looking Glass, a radio opera
• Akira Miyoshi (1933, Japan): String Quartet No. 1 (1962)

1961

• Elliott Carter
  Elliott Carter
  Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
  
  (1908, USA): String Quartet No. 2, (1959)
• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
  
  (1913, United Kingdom): A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera (1960)
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  Krzysztof Penderecki
  Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...
  
  (1933, Poland): Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, for string orchestra (1959-61)

1960

• Humphrey Searle
  Humphrey Searle
  Humphrey Searle was a British composer.-Biography:He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying — somewhat hesitantly — with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to Vienna on a six month scholarship to become a private pupil of Anton...
  
  (1915, United Kingdom): Diary of a Madman, a radio opera (1958)
• Sven-Erik Bäck
  Sven-Erik Bäck
  Sven-Erik Bäck was a Swedish composer of classical music. He was born in Stockholm.Bäck studied from 1939 until 1943 in the King's Music-Academy and from 1940 until 1945, was a composition student of Hilding Rosenberg...
  
  (1919, Sweden): The Twilight Crane (Tran springs), a radio opera, (1956)

1959

• Witold Lutosławski (1913, Poland): Funeral Music, for string orchestra (1956-8)
• Tadeusz Baird
  Tadeusz Baird
  Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.He was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to Scottish immigrant parents. He studied composition, piano and musicology in Warsaw with, among others, Kazimierz Sikorski. In 1956, with Serocki, he founded the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival...
  
   (1928, Poland): Four Essays, for orchestra (1958)

1958

• Niccolò Castiglioni
  Niccolò Castiglioni
  Niccolò Castiglioni was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music.Castiglioni was born and raised in Milan, where he began studying piano at the age of 7. He received his performer's diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1952, and graduated there in composition in 1953...
  
  (1932, Italy): Symphony No. 1, for soprano and orchestra (1956)

1957

• Ingvar Lidholm
  Ingvar Lidholm
  Ingvar Natanael Lidholm is a Swedish composer.Ingvar Lidholm was born in Jönköping. He was a pupil of Hilding Rosenberg from 1943 to 1945, becoming a viola player with the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. Having been awarded the Jenny Lind Fellowship for 1946–7, he travelled to France, Switzerland...
  
  (1921, Sweden): Ritournelle, orchestra (1955)

1956

• Frank Martin (1890, Switzerland): Cembalo Concerto, for harpsichord and orchestra (1951-52)
• Hans Werner Henze
  Hans Werner Henze
  Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
  
   (1926, Germany): Symphony No 3, for symphony orchestra (1949-50)

1955

• Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
  
  (1916, France): Symphony No. 1, for orchestra (1951)
• Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
  
  (1925, Italy) Chamber Music, for voice, clarinet, cello, harp (1953)

External links

• International Rostrum of Composers on the International Music Council's website hosted by UNESCO.