Annija Anna Z
arina wins Tera de Marez Oyens Award 2026 with 'I' for voice and media (pre recorded the same voice).
In the award ceremony during the Gaudeamus Festival 2026 at Theater Kikker for the Tera de Marez Oyens award, the chair of the award committee applauded the performance, how it conducted your attention, fully engaged in listening. A very effective interesting staging. All over, very well done, clear score well instructed, simpel concept, very nice development in time.
Annija Anna Zarina (2000) Composer. Bachelor of Music, Composition, Academy of Music Riga, Latvia as well as the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, now taking her Master of Music, Composition at the Yale University New Haven, USA.
The prize consists of an amount of €2,500, intended for a new commission for a short composition for a professional ensemble. It will be performed during the next Gaudeamus Festival and it will be published by music publisher Donemus.
In the jury of the Tera de Marez Oyens Award 2026 were Aspasia Nasopoulou (composer, artistic director, curator, teacher), Jonas Bisquert (composer, programmer, community artist, teacher), Brandt Attema (artistic director, teacher, bastrombonist), Astrid Haring (harpist)/Ellen Overweel (musicologist). Chairman: David de Marez Oyens
This project was 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.