Four compositions nominated for the Tera de Marez Oyens Award 2026
The Tera de Marez Oyens Prize will be awarded during the Gaudeamus Festival 2026 in Utrecht. This prize is intended to encourage recently graduated Dutch composers and to bridge the gap between education and professional practice. The prize consists of an amount of €2,500, intended for a new commission for a short composition for a professional ensemble.
Nominated are the compositions of:
Amba Klapwijk, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag - Teder (Carlotta Carvalho – piano)
Lydia Gardiner, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag – The Song of Leendart Hasenbosch (Joël Boone – Chest organ, Gijsbert Westland - Tenor, Alex Baker - Viola da Gamba)
Annija Anna Zarina, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag – I (Annija Krivjonoka – singer)
Jonatàn Repokari, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg – Kenen Muisto Tämä On? / Whose Memory Is This?
These works will be performed during the Gaudeamus Festival in De Kikker, Utrecht, on September 12, 2026, 14:00 h, after which the award winner will be announced.
During the jury deliberate you can listen to
Tera de Marez Oyens – Mixed Feelings (1973) (Storm Bakker – synthesizer, Jos Zwanenburg – electronics, Onno Witte – slagwerk)
Jury of the Tera de Marez Oyens Award 2026: Aspasia Nasopoulou (composer, artistic director, curator, teacher) and Jonas Bisquert (composer, programmer, community artist, teacher), Brandt Attema (artistic director, teacher, bastrombonist), Astrid Haring (harpist). Chairman: David de Marez Oyens
This project is made possible thanks to SENA Performers.
Tera de Marez Oyens: "Expressing my adventures and feelings in music and print came naturally to me. [...] To me, playing the piano and violin, and writing music notes, has always been my real life."
Read more in Tera's biography.