Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music
Current Winner
Anthony Tan for his composition entitled Ways of Returning (2020)
Anthony Tan intersects instrumental practice with signal processing, synthesized models, sampling, and field recording, resulting in music that explores the identity of sound, and the fluidity of genre.
His composition Ways of Returning (2020) is an 18-minute work for amplified string quartet and electronics, commissioned by Quatuor Bozzini and E27 musique nouvelles.
Previous awards include the audience and jury prize from the ECM+ Generation 2014 tour and the 2011 Giga-Hertz Förder Prize. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and the master class from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Germany. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Victoria.
To learn more about Anthony, visit his website.
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