The Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award is offered by 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...

 to outstanding young performers winning the International Gaudemus Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music. The competition provides an opportunity for performers of contemporary music to meet other musicians from all over the world. During the festival workshops, master classes and concerts take place.

First Prize Winners

• 1963 1st Prize not awarded
• 1964 Duo Petr Messiereur ( Czechoslovakia, violin) and Jarmila Kozderk ( Czechoslovakia, piano)
• 1965 Charles de Wolff ( Netherlands, organ)
• 1966 Harald Boje ( Germany, piano) and Zygmunt Krauze
  Zygmunt Krauze
  - Biography :Polish composer and pianist , who studied composition and piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is known as a composer of unistic music, based on the theory of unistic art adopted from the painting of Wladyslaw Strzeminski...
  
   
• 1967 Duo Joan Ryall  and June Clark 
• 1968 Ronald Lumsden 
• 1969 Frank van Kooten ( Netherlands, oboe)
• 1970 Bart Berman
  Bart Berman
  Bart Berman is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music....
  
   ( Netherlands, piano)
• 1971 Doris Hays 
• 1972 Harry Sparnaay
  Harry Sparnaay
  Harry Sparnaay is a noted Dutch bass clarinetist, composer, and teacher. He is the most well-known player of new music for the bass clarinet and has won the following: First Prize Gaudeamus Contest , Swedish Record Prize , Bulgarian Composers Union Award , Inaugural Sounds Australian Award ,...
  
   ( Netherlands, bass clarinet)
• 1973 Michiko Takahashi ( Japan, marimba)
• 1974 Herbert Henck ( Germany, piano)
• 1975 Fernando Grillo ( Italy, contrabass)
• 1976 Max Lifchitz
  Max Lifchitz
  Max Lifchitz is a classical pianist, composer, and conductor.He was born and grew up in Mexico City. Following one year of study in Mexico, he came to the United States in 1966 and studied at the Juilliard School, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan.In 1980, he founded the...
  
   ( Mexico, piano)
• 1977 Toyoji Peter Tomita 
• 1978 Edward Johnson
  Edward Johnson
  -Politicians:* Edward Johnson * Edward Johnson , former mayor of Baltimore* Edward A. Johnson , first African American elected to New York state legislature...
  
   
• 1979 Mircea Ardeleanu ( Kingdom of Romania, percussion)
• 1980 Florean Popa ( Kingdom of Romania, clarinet)
• 1981 David Arden 
• 1983 John Kenny 
• 1985 Amadinda Percussion Group
  Amadinda Percussion Group
  Amadinda Percussion Group was formed in 1984 in Budapest by four musicians, just after having graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Since founding the ensemble, the central point of their activity has been double...
  
   ( Hungary, percussion)
• 1987 Stefan Hussong ( Germany, accordion)
• 1989 Louis Bessette ( Canada, piano)
• 1991 Tomoko Mukaiyama ( Japan, piano)
• 1993 Aleksandra Krzanowska 
• 1994 Margit Kern ( Germany, accordion)
• 1995 Guido Arbonelli ( Italy, bass clarinet)
• 1996 Helen Bledsoe 
• 1997 Alan Thomas 
• 1999 Ralph van Raat
  Ralph van Raat
  Ralph van Raat is a Dutch classical pianist.- Biography and career :Ralph van Raat studied music at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, with Ton Hartsuiker and Willem Brons...
  
   ( Netherlands, piano)
• 2001 Tony Arnold
  Tony Arnold
  Tony Dale Arnold is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He made his MLB debut in with the Baltimore Orioles and played his final game in . He is currently the pitching coach for the Kinston Indians.-External links:...
  
   
• 2003 Philip Howard
  Philip Howard
  Philip Howard may refer to:*Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, Saint Philip Howard, *Philip Howard , English army officer and Member of Parliament*Philip Howard Philip Howard may refer to:*Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, Saint Philip Howard, (1557–1595)*Philip Howard (1629–1717), English...
  
   ( United Kingdom, piano)
• 2005 Ashley Hribar ( Australia, piano)
• 2007 Mathias Reumert ( Denmark, percussion)
• 2009 Małgorzata Walentynowicz 
• 2011 Brian Archinal

External links

• Review of the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition of 2001, also gives some general background