The Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition
The Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition (formerly called the Youth Competition of the Polish Composer's Union) is organized annually since 1958. Its aim is to give a start to young Polish composers and to encourage them to work and take independent initiative.
The TADEUSZ BAIRD YOUNG COMPOSERS COMPETITION (formerly called the YOUTH COMPETITION OF THE POLISH COMPOSERS' UNION) is organized annually since 1958. Its aim is to give a start to young Polish composers and to encourage them to work and take independent initiative. Until 1990, the event's rules stated that the competition piece is to be any piece with duration over 5 minutes. The participants received a 3-month stipend to compose from the Ministry of Culture and Art. The grand prize of the competition was a stipend to a foreign country, the second prize - participation in a music festival organized in one of the eastern block countries, while the award of distinction – a free stay at the "WARSAW AUTUMN" festival.
Since 1990, the Ministry has withdrawn from awarding creative stipends. From that time, the Grand Prize, the Tadeusz Baird Prize of 2,500 dollars to be dedicated for further studies in composition is funded by Alina Sawicka-Baird, the wife of the deceased composer, Tadeusz Baird. The two second prizes and the award of distinction are financed by the Head Board of the Polish Composers' Union.
Since 1990, the BAIRD COMPETITION is open to all Polish composers who are not yet 35 years of age on the day of the submission deadline (formerly it was addressed to graduates of composition departments of the State Higher Schools of Music). The object of the competition is different every year.
Grand prize winners included:
- The 1st Competition (1958): Juliusz Luciuk for SZKIC SYMFONICZNY
- The 2nd Competition (1959): Krzysztof Penderecki for STROFY
- The 3rd Competition (1960): Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki for MONOLOGI I
- The 4th Competition (1961): Romuald Twardowski for ANTIFONE PER TRE GRUPPI
- The 5th Competition (1962): no winner
- The 6th Competition (1963): no winner
- The 7th Competition (1964): no winner
- The 8th Competition (1965): Zbigniew Bargielski for PARADY
- The 9th Competition (1966): Piotr Warzecha for EWOLUCJE
- The 10th Competition (1967): no winner
- The 11th Competition (1968): no winner
- The 12th Competition (1969): Marian Sawa for ASSEMBLAGE
- The 13th Competition (1970): no winner
- The 14th Competition (1971): no winner
- The 15 Competition (1972): Zbigniew Pniewski for MUZYKA
- The 16th Competition (1973): no winner
- The 17th Competition (1974): no winner
- The 18th Competition (1975): Stanislaw Moryto for NOCTURN
- The 19th Competition (1976): Slawomir Czarnecki for GRADITO PER ORCHESTRA
- The 20th Competition (1977): Ryszard Szeremeta for PROZNO PLAKAC
- The 21st Competition (1978): Wieslawa Alicja Garr for SURA
- The 22nd Competition (1979): Pawel Szymanski for GLORIA
- The 23rd Competition (1980): Pawel Buczynski for MUZYKA OPADAJACYCH LISCI
- The 24th Competition (1981): Piotr Radko for POEMAT KONTEMPLACJI
- The 25th Competition (1982): no winner
- The 26th Competition (1983): Katarzyna Bortkun for DE CARITATE
- The 27th Competition (1984): no winner
- The 28th Competition (1986): no winner
- The 29th Competition (1987): Andrzej Dziadek for POEMAT SYMFONICZNY
- The 30th Competition (1988): Wieslaw Rentowski for WAYANG
- The 31st Competition (1989): no winner
- The 32nd Competition (1990): no winner
- The 33rd Competition (1991): no winner
- The 34th Competition (1992): ex aequo: Alicja Gronau for OKNA and Robert Kurdybacha for SYMFONIA KAMERALNA
- The 35th Competition (1993): no winner
- The 36th Competition (1994): no winner
- The 37th Competition (1995): ex aequo: Marcin Bortnowski for KWARTET SMYCZKOWY and Adam Falkiewicz for PO DRUGIEJ STRONIE SLONCA
- The 38th Competition (1996): Wieslaw Pluskota for TRIO NA 3 KLARNETY I TASMY
- The 39th Competition (1997): Marcel Chyrzynski for FERRAGOSTO PER TROMBA, PIANOFORTE E BATTERIA
- The 40th Competition (1998): no winner
- The 41st Competition (1999): ex aequo: Aleksander Kosciow for NOC SWIETOJANSKA and Bartosz Kowalski for STUDIUM PRZESTRZENI
- The 42nd Competition (2000): no winner
- The 43rd Competition (2001): ex aequo: Bartosz Kowalski for SNY O PRZEOBRAZENIACH MATERII i Daria Jablonska for IMAGES OF BROKEN LIGHT
- The 44th Competition (2002): no winner
- The 45th Competition (2003): ex aequo: Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz for Stadium (for piano and string quartet) and Pawel Strzelecki for Piano Quintet
- The 46th Competition (2004): no winner
- The 47th Competition (2005): ex aequo: Dariusz Przybylski for The Rest is Silence (for 2 pianos and percussion) and Adrian Foltyn for Son'tasy 2.1 (for 2 pianos and live electronic media)
Polish Music Information Center Polish Composer's UnionJanuary 2002 updated: November 2006 | |
Rynek Starego Miasta 27
00-272 Warszawa
Phone: (+48 22) 831 16 34
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