British composer Matthew Grouse is the winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2025. The young composer received the prestigious incentive prize for young music pioneers on Sunday, September 14th during the closing evening of Gaudeamus Festival 2025 in TivoliVredenburg Hertz in Utrecht.
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Composer, musician, and curator Bart de Vrees, in his opening speech for the Gaudeamus Festival 2025, reflects on The State of Dutch New Music, in collaboration with Buma Cultuur.
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Plan your festival visit ahead or on your way to the festival.
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Application for the Gaudeamus Award 2026 is now open! Composers/creators of any nationality or background who were born after 13 September 1990 may enter their works.
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Today we announce the third and final batch of artists performing at Gaudeamus Festival 2025.
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The application to join our Focus Group is now open!
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Today we are announcing the next batch of artists for the programme of Gaudeamus Festival 2025!
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From 10 to 14 September, we will present more than 45 concerts, interdisciplinary performances, the Gaudeamus Award, workshops, lectures and a seminar, celebrating our 80th anniversary this year.
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Matthew Grouse (1996, GBR)
Golnaz Shariatzadeh (1996, IRN)
Robin Haigh (1993, IRL/GBR)
Yaz Lancaster (1996, USA)
The young composer received the prestigious incentive prize for young music pioneers on Sunday 8 September during the closing evening of Gaudeamus Festival 2024 in TivoliVredenburg Pandora in Utrecht.
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Louis Andriessen, with his piece ‘The Republic’, engaged in a discussion about the role of music in politics, asserting that music has never caused the . . .
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When it comes to music, we usually talk about melody, rhythm, and harmony. Harmony has an allegorical ulterior motive, its meaning reflecting our desire to . . .
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Installations by NIME makers can be seen during the day at various HKU locations, the Academy Gallery and Museum Speelklok.
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In this series of articles, we check in with some of the artists we worked with in the past to see where they are now. Episode 3: Maya Fridman, artist in residence at Gaudeamus in 2018 and 2019.
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A new episode of Curious Ears podcast by Gaudeamus Festival. Emine Bostancı and Ardashes Agoshian talk about contemporary music and traditional instruments: Kemenche of Istanbul and Cretan Lyra with sympathetic strings.
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The deadline for the Gaudeamus Award 2025 is 1 October 2024 23:59 CET.
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