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Montreal, June 28, 2024 – We are thrilled to announce that our 2024 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Gala Concert will take place on October 28, 2024, at 7:30 PM ET live at Maison symphonique de Montréal.
Come join us on a journey across eras, cultures and environments as we explore enduring yet contemporary concerns via the musical imaginations of the four 2024 AMP Laureates – Josef Bardanashvili, Yair Klartag, Jordan Nobles and Juan Trigos.
Our 2024 Gala Performance Partner is l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal – one of Canada’s leading ambassadors of symphonic music. The daring Andrew Megill conducts the OSM for this special evening, featuring the highly acclaimed OSM Chorus.
About the works
Josef Bardanshvili, winner of the 2024 Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music, gives us Light to My Path Choral Fantasy for mixed choir, saxophone, percussion and piano. Each movement in his composition grows from one of the various states of belief – supplication, ecstasy, doubt, gratitude – outlined in the Book of Psalms.
Yair Klartag, winner of the 2024 Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music, brings us The Parable of the Palace, a work for choir and four double basses. The piece draws on Jewish philosopher Maimonides’s famous parable to investigate the limits of logic and reason in explaining reality and the metaphysical.
Jordan Nobles, winner of the 2024 Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, presents Kanata for Large Choir, a tribute to the Canadian landscape inspired by travel across Canada. Each section of the new work will be composed on the land as Nobles travels through it. The work will feature the modern and First Nation names of the rivers, lakes and mountains from each province.
Juan Trigos, winner of the inaugural 2024 Azrieli Commission for International Music, honours the pre-Hispanic culture of his native Mexico with his commissioned work Simetrías Prehispánicas. The composition for chorus, amplified flute, trombone, percussion and keyboards will incorporate text by anonymous and major Aztec poets from the 15th century in their original Nahuatl and Spanish translations.
About the Azrieli Music Prizes
Established by the Azrieli Foundation in 2014, the biennial the Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) are the brainchild of Sharon Azrieli CQ. AMP offers opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition. Open to the international music community, AMP accepts nominations for works from individuals and institutions of all ages, nationalities, faiths, genders and backgrounds, which are then submitted to its expert juries through an open call for scores and proposals.
The four AMP prize packages – valued at $200,000 CAD per Laureate – currently make it the top competition for music composition in Canada and one of the largest in the world.
Past prize-winners include Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi (2022), Israeli-Canadian composer Aharon Harlap (2022), Canadian composers Rita Ueda (2022), Keiko Devaux (2020), Kelly-Marie Murphy (2018) and Brian Current (2016), Dutch-born American composer Yotam Haber (2020), Israeli-Australian composer Yitzhak Yedid (2020), Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman (2018) and US-based Polish composer Wlad Marhulets (2016).
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