Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

Born in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, China in 1989. He is a composer of classical music, currently based in Pittsburgh, USA. Holding a bachelor's degree from Sichuan Conservatory of Music and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music both major in music composition and theory, he is completing his Ph. D. in the same area at the University of Pittsburgh.
He takes inspiration from a broad spectrum of influences, such as traditional Chinese arts and its Western counterpart. He is awarded prizes in composition and has worked with eminent interpreters.

Born in Alcolea de Calatrava, Spain in 1993. He studied composition with Gabriel Erkoreka at Musikene, where he finished his Bachelor degree with an honorific mention. Afterwards he continued his studies with Beat Furrer and Klaus Lang at the Kunstuniversität Graz. He also had classes and masterclasses with Helmut Lachenmann, Ramon Lazkano, Héctor Parra, and Rebecca Saunders, among others. He has been awarded numerous prestigious international prizes, and in 2016 he participated in the Academy of the Foundation Peter Eötvös, where he received classes from Peter Eötvös and Toshio Hosokawa. In the same year he was selected by Peter Eötvös to participate in the Gargonza Arts Artistic Residence.
https://www.franciscodominguez.info/

Born in Tredegar in South Wales, UK in 1990. He has composed pieces for vacuum cleaners and orchestra, epic planetarium shows, customised Dutch street organs, rock bands, video games, films, theatre shows, international orchestras, and anything beyond and in between. His music tends to inhabit one of two worlds. It is either celebratory and bright, consciously in opposition to the world in which it was written, or manic, detailed, and violent in response to the poverty and politics of our time. Roche’s compositions have been broadcast, televised, written about, and performed internationally to millions of people. He is the recipient of over 30 academic and professional awards.
https://www.davidjohnroche.com/

Born in Hong Kong, China in 1990. She is a composer of orchestral, instrumental and choral music. She was the Winner of a Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2018. She has worked with musicians such as BBC Singers, Bristol Ensemble, Bristol University Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 360, Ensemble Variances, Kokoro ensemble and Ensemble Musikfabrik. She has participated in the Summer School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2016), Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (2016), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Composers' Day (2017 & 2019), Bristol New Music (2018) and Takefu International Composition Workshop (2019). She studied for her BA at Hull University and she has completed an MA and a PhD in composition at Bristol University, under the supervision of Professor John Pickard. Her new orchestral work will be workshopped and performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra as part of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Composers’ Scheme 2019/20.
https://www.carmenho.co.uk/