Announcing the 2019 SOCAN Foundation Awards Recipients
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers
1st Prize Winners
Eugene Astapov
Hear My Voice
Ontario
The John Weinzweig Grand Prize
Luis Ramirez
Chido
Ontario
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Eugene Astapov
Hear My Voice
Ontario
Serge Garant
Stephanie Orlando
Scatterbrain
Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Carmen Vanderveken
At Play : 3 short pieces
Holland
Hugh Le Caine
Roydon Tse
And the Ocean was Gone
Ontario
Godfrey Ridout
2nd Prize Winners
William Kraushaar
APOCALYPSIS 15
Quebec
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Nolan Hildebrand
HEATDEATH
Manitoba
Serge Garant
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang
Isles
Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Xavier Madore
Les loges de la suite
Montreal, Quebec
Hugh Le Caine
Françis Choiniere
A Clear Midnight
Quebec
Godfrey Ridout
3rd Prize Winners
Jared Miller
Ricochet – Reverb – Repeat
New York
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Corie Rose Soumah
Reflet
Quebec
Serge Garant
Liam Ritz
Drei Klavierstücke
Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Bekah Simms
Skinned & Skinscape
Ontario
Hugh Le Caine
Tristan Zaba
Emcroachment
Ontario
Godfrey Ridout
Young Composer Award Winners
Leo Purich
Variations and fugue on Mozart
Quebec
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Jules Bastin-Fontaine
Trio en hommage à Bruckner
Quebec
Serge Garant
Kai Kubota-Enright
Isaac
British Columbia
Hugh Le Caine
Leo Purich
“Flexible Fugue” for choir (SATB) and piano”
Quebec
Godfrey Ridout
Leonid Nediak
Fantasie No. 2
Ontario
Pierre Mercure (ex aequo)
Thomas Cardoso-Grant
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Quebec
Pierre Mercure (ex aequo)