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Azrieli Music, Arts & Culture Centre Presents 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert

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The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre is set to present the biennial Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Gala Concert featuring four premiere works by the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates. Each AMP competition cycle focuses on a specific instrumentation category. In 2026, the works have been written for choir with symphonic orchestra and soloists. New works by Hana Ajiashvili (Azrieli {…}
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Azrieli Music, Arts & Culture Centre Opens Call for Proposals for Azrieli Music Prizes Performance Fund

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The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre announces the launch of its annual international call for proposals for the Azrieli Music Prizes Performance Fund. Created in 2014 by Dr. Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, the Azrieli Music Prizes celebrate excellence in music composition. Offering the largest prize package of its kind in Canada. Azrieli Music Prizes consists of {…}
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Azrieli Music, Arts & Culture Centre Opens Call for Scores & Proposals for the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes

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The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre has opened the call for scores and proposals for the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP). The international call to composers for the 2026 AMP seeks scores and proposals for choir and orchestra with optional soloists. The organization accepts nominations for works from individuals and institutions of all ages, genders, nationalities, faiths, and backgrounds. {…}
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The Azrieli Music Prizes Announces London Debut Concert

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Credit: Danylo-Bobyk The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) has announced its London debut concert to be held at Cadogan Hall on Oct. 15, 2023. The Canada-based organization will present the works of three 2022 AMP Laureates, Iman Habibi (Laureate, 2022 Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music), Aharon Harlap (Laureate, 2022 Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music), and Rita Ueda (Laureate, 2022 Azrieli Commission {…}
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Azrieli Music Prizes Announces 2020 Laureates

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On October 22, 2020, The Azrieli Foundation will present its biennial Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert, featuring the world premiere of works by the three 2020 AMP Laureates. The concert will be free to stream via Medici TV and Azrieli Music Prizes’ Facebook page. The winners are Keiko Devaux, whose work “Arras,” draws from her French and Japanese-Canadian heritage; Yotam {…}
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Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre Announces 4 Winners of 2026 Music Prizes

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The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has announced the four laureates of the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP). Georgian-Israeli composer Hana Ajiashvili earned the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music for her 2022 work “Riddle,” a setting of Yehuda Halevi’s poetry exploring persecution and resilience. Meanwhile, American composer and thereminist Dalit Hadass Warshaw won the Azrieli Commission for Jewish {…}
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Q & A: Composer Hana Ajiashvili on Her Azrieli Award-Winning ‘Riddle,’ Finding Inspiration in Color & Music’s Omnipresence in Her Life

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(Photo Credit: Michael-Pavia) “Color is one of the strongest impulses in my creative process. I often think about orchestration and instrumental techniques almost visually — as layers, densities, contrasts, surfaces, and transformations of color,” says composer Hana Ajiashvili, 2026 Laureate of the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music (give for an existing but undiscovered work of Jewish music), regarding what inspires {…}
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Q & A: Composer Josef Bardanashvili on His Azrieli Prize-Winning ‘Light to My Path’

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At an early point in his life, Georgian and Israeli composer Josef Bardanashvili was set to become a painter like his father and older brothers. But it all changed at age 13 when he started to learn how to play the trumpet. From there, his love for music was irresistible and he would eventually make his way to the Tbilisi {…}
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Juan Trigos, Yair Klartag, Jordan Nobles, & Josef Bardanashvili Names 2024 Azrieli Music Prize Laureates

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The Azrieli Foundation has revealed its 2024 Azrieli Music Prizes laureates. Juan Trigos won the first-ever Azrieli Commission for International Music – a prize created to promote greater intercultural understanding. Yair Klartag received the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music. Jordan Nobles earned the Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, and Josef Bardanashvili won the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music. Each cycle {…}

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