ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize
The ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize ( Japanese ア ジ ア 作曲家 連 盟 入 野 義 朗 記念 賞 , Asia Sakkyokuka Renmei Irino Yoshirō Kinenshō ) is one of the most prestigious music prizes in the Asia-Pacific region. It is awarded regularly by the Asian Composers League (ACL). The award was created in memory of the founder of the ACL, the Japanese composer Irino Yoshirō . It is awarded to the best composers under the age of 35 in the respective host country as part of the ACL Conference and Festival . The first award ceremony took place in 1981 at Law Wing-fai (Hong Kong). Since then, the award has been given to later leading composers in their countries such as Chan Wing-wah (Hong Kong) and Phoon Yew Tien (Singapore). One of the world's most recognized award winners is the Chinese Tan Dun , who won a Grammy and Oscar. The last laureate was Shogo Takahashi (Japan) in 2014 .
Award winners
- Law Wing-fai (Hong Kong 1981)
- Phoon Yew Tien (Singapore 1983)
- Cuong Nguyen (New Zealand 1984)
- Tzyy-Sheng Lee (Taiwan 1986)
- Chan Wing-wah (Hong Kong 1988)
- Tan Dun (China 1990)
- Jeroen Speak (New Zealand 1992)
- Lim Jie-sun (South Korea 1993)
- Wang Sue-ya (Taiwan 1994)
- Jiradej Setabundhu (Thailand 1996)
- Jomar B. Ferreria (Indonesia 1997)
- Yu-Hui Chang (Taiwan 1998)
- Dody Satya Ekagustdiman / A. Fahmy Alatlas (Indonesia 1999)
- Kumiko Ōmura (Japan 2000)
- Sungji Hong (South Korea 2002)
- Sakiko Kosaka (Japan 2003)
- Erel Paz (Israel 2004)
- Narong Prangcharoen (Thailand 2005)
- Samuel Holloway (New Zealand 2007)
- Tang Lok-yin (Hong Kong 2007)
- Kim Il-jin (South Korea 2009)
- Yen Ming-Hsiu (Taiwan 2011)
- Shogo Takahashi (Japan 2014)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ JFC に つ い て . Asian Composers League, accessed December 5, 2013 (Japanese, undated).