Senzoku Contemporary Composition Competition

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3rd:The Results of the Final Selection

The final selection was performed April 15, 2015 and the 16th. We will announce the winners name and the compositions.

Viewing of Division A is here
Viewing of Division B is here

【Winners＆Awards】

Division A

1st place award
Roger Zare (USA) / Tectonics
2nd place award
Wataru Mukai (JPN) / EDEN
3rd place award
Yusuke Moriya (JPN) / Fault Line
The Special Jury Award
Wataru Mukai (JPN) / EDEN

Division B

1st place award
Tatsuto Masuda (JPN) / Ballade
2nd place award
Manuel Torres-Arias (UK) / Three Lyric Pieces on Water Themes
3rd place award
Igor Iwanek (Poland) / Black Is The Colour Of My Soul
The Special Jury Award
Hina Sakamoto (JPN) / LIFE for Organ

【Program】

Division A

NO.1 / Haruka Hirota
MIZU WO HASHIRU
NO.2 / Yasunori Kanazawa
Gnome
NO.3 / Yusuke Moriya
Fault Line
NO.4 / Wataru Mukai
EDEN
NO.5 / Roger Zare
Tectonics

Performer：SENZOKU New Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor：Nobutaka Masui(Visiting professor)

Division B

NO.1 /Manuel Torres-Arias
Three Lyric Pieces on Water Themes (pf/Asuka Iino)
NO.2 / Igor Iwanek
Black Is The Colour Of My Soul (pf/Shinji Urakabe)
NO.3 /Takaya Tachiki
«Fantaisie» pour Piano (pf/Satoshi Matsushita)
NO.4 / Hina Sakamoto
LIFE for Organ(organ/Yumiko Ogino)
NO.5 / Daikou Fujikawa
Connection Collection for Organ(organ/Satoko Kawagoe)
NO.6 / Kiyohiro Kawai
Agnostic sonata for piano No.2(pf/Asuka Iino)
NO.7 / Tatsuto Masuda
Ballade (pf/Shinji Urakabe)

【About the Final Selection results】

Beginning this 3rd competition, we are pleased to announce our decision to publish the score publicly in order to increase the transparency of the review process as an international contest.

Division A

Judges
The score of each piece
    NO.1 : 98
  • Takafumi Kojima：17
  • Jonathan Dawe：20
  • Yasuhide Ito：15
  • Akio Shimizu：15
  • Junmei Suzuki：14
  • Eisuke Tsuchida：17
    NO.2 : 90
  • Takafumi Kojima：13
  • Jonathan Dawe：18
  • Yasuhide Ito：16
  • Akio Shimizu：14
  • Junmei Suzuki：15
  • Eisuke Tsuchida：14
    NO.3 :108※
  • Takafumi Kojima：17
  • Jonathan Dawe：18
  • Yasuhide Ito：16
  • Akio Shimizu：18
  • Junmei Suzuki：19
  • Eisuke Tsuchida：20
    NO.4 :108※
  • Takafumi Kojima：17
  • Jonathan Dawe：20
  • Yasuhide Ito：19
  • Akio Shimizu：17
  • Junmei Suzuki：19
  • Eisuke Tsuchida：16
    NO.5 :109
  • Takafumi Kojima：19
  • Jonathan Dawe：19
  • Yasuhide Ito：19
  • Akio Shimizu：19
  • Junmei Suzuki：18
  • Eisuke Tsuchida：15
Order of performance Judges Sum of score
---- Takafumi Kojima Jonathan Dawe Yasuhide Ito Akio Shimizu Junmei Suzuki Eisuke Tsuchida ----
NO.1 17 20 15 15 14 17 98
NO.2 13 18 16 14 15 14 90
NO.3 17 18 16 18 20 19 108 ※
NO.4 17 20 19 17 19 16 108 ※
NO.5 19 19 19 19 18 15 109

* Although the 2nd and 3rd are the same score, according to the competition rule, in the event of a tie of total score, the work with higher Composing Techniques point is superior. Therefore, the work with higher Composing Techniques point is the 2nd place.

Division B

Judges
The score of each piece
Order of performance Judges Sum of score
---- Takafumi Kojima Jonathan Dawe Hitoshi Kobayashi Akio Shimizu Masaki Teruya Emiko Harimoto ----
NO.1 17 20 19 17 18 ---- 91
NO.2 19 18 17 19 15 ---- 88
NO.3 17 18 17 16 14 ---- 82
NO.4 17 20 17 14 15 ---- 83
NO.5 15 18 15 18 20 ---- 86
NO.6 15 17 19 15 15 ---- 81
NO.7 18 18 20 20 19 ---- 95

* Mrs. Harimoto was absent from screening.