Toronto - The Azrieli Music Prizes
Created in 2014 by Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, the biennial Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) is Canada’s largest competition devoted to music composition. AMP advances the Foundation’s commitment to discovering, elevating and amplifying artistic voices that exhibit excellence and embodies its belief in music as a vital human endeavour that expresses our creativity, expands our worldview and fosters positive cultural exchange.
Agenda
Open to the international music community, AMP accepts nominations for works from individuals and institutions of all ages, faiths nationalities and genders, which are then submitted to its expert juries through an open call for scores and proposals. Past prize-winners include Georgian-Israeli composer Josef Bardanashvili (2024), Israeli composer Yair Klartag (2024), Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi (2022), Canadian-born Israeli composer Aharon Harlap (2022), Canadian composers Jordan Nobles, (2024), Rita Ueda (2022), Keiko Devaux (2020), Kelly-Marie Murphy (2018) and Brian Current (2016), Dutch-born American composer Yotam Haber (2020), Israeli-born Australian composer Yitzhak Yedid (2020), Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman (2018) and U.S.-based Polish composer Wlad Marhulets (2016).
Contact
The Azrieli Foundation
Jason van Eyk
c/o WFIMC
1205 Genève
Switzerland
On the red carpet at the 2022 AMP Gala Concert (L to R): Soloist Naomi Sato, Conductor Alexandre Bloch, Soloist Sharon Azrieli, 2022 AMP Laureate Rita Ueda and Soloist Zhongxi Wu. ©️Danylo Bobyk
A percussionist of the Orchestre Métropolitain improvises with soloist Zhongxi Wu in a segment of Birds Calling…from the Canada in You by 2022 AMP Laureate Rita Ueda. ©️Danylo Bobyk
Final bows at the 2022 AMP Gala Concert (L to R): Soloist Sharon Azrieli, 2022 AMP Laureate Aharon Harlap, 2022 AMP Laureate Iman Habibi, Soloist Sepideh Raissadet, Soloist Zhongxi Wu, 2022 AMP Laureate Rita Ueda, Soloist Naomi Sato and Conductor Alexandre Bloch with the Orchestre Métropolitain©️Danylo Bobyk
2020 AMP Laureates Yitzhak Yedid, Keiko Devaux and Yotam Haber at the NYC premieres of their AM-winning works by Talea Ensemble. ©️Danylo Bobyk
2018 Laurate Kelly-Marie Murphy with conductor Yoav Talmi and the Orchestre classique de Montréal (credit: Danylo Bobyk)
Maestro Steven Mercurio, cellist Ariel Barnes, soprano Sharon Azrieli, harpist Heidi Krutzen and violinist Lara St. John with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra (credit: Lukáš Bíba)