«Ady Mootz» for the best interpretation of «Comme la rosée, aussi comme l’éclair» from Wenchi TSAI, the set piece in the preliminary round

Trio Fragments

Gabriel MICHAUD, 19 (France)
Loïc MORIN, 25 (France)
Antonin JACCARD, 19 (Switzerland)

«Jean Gieres» prize determined by the audience during the final round

Budd Trio

Lorenzo MANQUILLET, 22 (France)
Louis LEBRETON, 24 (France)
Victor LODEON, 24 (France)

«Students» prize determined by Luxembourgish percussion students for the best interpretation of «Narnchygäer» from François TASHDJIAN, the set piece in semifinal

Mati3re

Meng-Fu HSIEH, 26 (Taiwan)
Lucas MESSLER, 27 (France)
Youjin LEE, 27 (South Corea)

«Short film» prize for the best musical accompaniment to the short film «Vestiges» in the semi-final

Kãna Trio

Rens RUTTEN, 20 (The Netherlands)
Hugo PEREIRA, 21 (Portugal)
João SEQUEIRA, 20 (Portugal)

«Organized» prize for the best interpretation of “Organized” from Georges Sadeler, the set piece in final

Budd Trio

Lorenzo MANQUILLET, 22 (France)
Louis LEBRETON, 24 (France)
Victor LODEON, 24 (France)

Jury members

• Paul MOOTZ (Luxembourg), chairman
• Béatrice DAUDIN (France/Luxembourg)
• Alexandre ESPERET (France)
• Arnold MARINISSEN (The Netherlands)
• Allen OTTE (USA)
• Bart QUARTIER (Belgium)
• Yi-Ping YANG (Taiwan)

Participants

24 trios from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Danmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Corea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA and Venezuela

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ (Luxembourg), Wim HENDERICKX (Belgium), Claude LENNERS (Luxembourg), Nicolas MARTYNCIOW (France), Matthias SCHMITT (Germany)

Composer's note

Music can interpret everything, and why not a philosophical questioning of mundane phenomena to which we do not usually pay attention.

The title of the work "Comme la rosée, aussi comme l’éclair", is an excerpt from the Diamond Sutra. It means that everything that is concrete in this world, constantly appears and disappears according to a principle of impermanence, like all that is spiritual, thought, consciousness. The phenomena we clearly see such as a water bubble, the morning dew or even a flash in the sky actually last only for the time of a blink.

While these phenomena seem real to us, we perceive them as chimerical, as if we were in a dream. If the world seems like an eternity, these incalculable and fleeting moments are an infinite number of appearances and disappearances.

In illustration of her work, the composer chose for main images the dew beading everywhere at dawn and the flash that lasts only a blink. The motif containing triplets, equivalent to two or four times, the melodic passage by xylophone and the passage in "pianissimo" by glockenspiel, are all representations of dew; the passage by keyboards and drums, which creates an enormous energy, is the representation of powerful consecutive flashes. The work ends with a splendid sonority by glockenspiel in "fortissisimo", bringing audience into a persistent resonance.

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary, IPCL invited for a series of 3 concerts. Five former laureates came back to Luxembourg.

14th february 2019, SR9 (1st prize, lalux prize and Jean Gieres prize - IPCL Trio 2012) performed at Cape Ettelbruck.

28th november 2019, Nana Formosa (3rd prize - IPCL Duo 2009) and Daidalos Percussion Quartet (1st prize and Ady Mootz prize - IPCL Quartet 2015) performed at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg-city.

2nd december 2019, Slovenian Percussion Duo (2nd prize and Jean Gieres prize - IPCL 2009) and Dendrocopos Duo (1st prize and Jean Gieres prize - IPCL 2018) performed at Philharmonie Luxembourg

« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of Goldrush written by Jacob ter Veldhuis (set piece - semi-final)

Te l Ling Percussion Duo
Yao-Te HSIEH, 24 (Taiwan), Ling LU, 27 (Taiwan)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

DENDROCOPOS DUO
Jan CIBEJ, 19 (Slovenia), Luka POLJANEC, 18 (Slovenia)

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ (Luxembourg), Boris DINEV (Bulgaria/Luxembourg), Philippe LIMOGE (France), Katarzyna MYCKA (Poland), Fumito NUNOYA (Japan), Bart QUARTIER (Belgium), Matthias SCHMITT (Germany)

Participants

34 duos from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and USA.

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ (Luxembourg), Wim HENDERICKX (Belgium), Claude LENNERS (Luxembourg), Nicolas MARTYNCIOW (France), Matthias SCHMITT (Germany)

Composer's note

The music of Southeast Asia has a characteristic flavor and makes people enter a state of meditation. Many cultures have some kinds of magical music which can free one's spirit out from the body. Generally it is repetitively mechanically performed by an instrument or through a dance. By the time going on, people enter psychedelic states gradually.This is known as 'dedication' to communicate with the gods.

It makes me feel the fantastic interaction between music and humanity.

This piece uses the pith materials which are similar to Gamelan music composed with the techniques of Minimalism music and a logic-like digital as in games. I want to express this alternately mechanical and clever music through stretches of breath.

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« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of "Overture for percussion quartet and brass quintet" written by Anders Koppel (set piece - final round)

DAIDALOS PERCUSSION QUARTET (GERMANY)
GLÄSER Richard (Germany), WERNER Johannes (Germany), FUJITA Aya (Japan), PORTER Vanessa (Germany)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

4EXAMPBLE (BULGARIA/SPAIN)
TZENOV Georgi (Bulgaria), HAFIZI Martin (Bulgaria), REYES RESINA Pablo (Spain), ANANIEV EMILOV Tomi (Bulgaria)

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ (Luxembourg), Boris DINEV (Luxembourg/Bulgaria), Beverley JOHNSTON (Canada), Anders KOPPEL (Denmark), Philippe LIMOGE (France), Keiko NAKAMURA (Japon), Bart QUARTIER (Belgique)

Participants

11 quartets from Bulgaria / Spain, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan

1st prize

SR9 (France)

2nd prize

Insomnia Percussion Trio (Taiwan)

3rd prize

Talking Drums ( Germany )

« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of "Rain Tree" written by Toru Takemitsu (set piece - semi-final)

Insomnia Percussion Trio ( Taiwan )

« lalux » prize for the best interpretation of "Fin de Parcours" written by Jean Batigne (set piece - final round)

SR9 ( France )

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

SR9 ( France )

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ, Boris DINEV, Marta KLIMASARA, Philippe LIMOGE, Keiko NAKAMURA, Allen OTTE, Peter PROMMEL

Participants

22 trios from The Nederlands, Spain, France, Taiwan, Greece, Russia, Italy, Brasil, Argentina, U.S.A., Luxembourg, Ukraine, Belgium, Japan, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey Croatia, S. Korea, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Switzerland, China, Singapore

2nd prize

Slovenian Percussion Duo (Slovenia)

3rd prize

Nana Formosa (Taiwan) and Orion (France)

« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of "Spaghetti Junction" written by Al Ginter (set piece - semi-final)

Percusur (Argentina / Italy / Brasil)

« radio 100,7 » prize for the best interpretation of "Sonata for two pianos and two percussion" written by Bels Bartok (set piece - final round)

Orion (France)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

Slovenian Percussion Duo (Slovenia)

Jury members

Alain WIRTH, Béatrice DAUDIN, Boris DINEV, Adi MORAG, Keiko NAKAMURA, Eric SAMMUT, Nancy ZELTSMAN

Participants

29 duos from Germany, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Spain, France, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Poland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine

1st prize

Via Nova Percussion Group (Austria / Bulgaria / Italy)

2nd prize

So Percussion (U.S.A.)

3rd prize

EM Quartet (Mexico)

« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of "Suite en Concert" written by André Jolivet (set piece - semi-final)

Via Nova Percussion Group (Austria / Bulgaria / Italy)

« radio 100,7 » prize for the best interpretation of "Quadrifoglia" written by Marcel Wengler (set piece - final round)

So Percussion (U.S.A.)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

Via Nova Percussion Group (Austria / Bulgaria / Italy)

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ, Bob BECKER, Momoko KAMIYA, Anders LOGUIN, Peter PROMMEL, Zoltán RATZ, Emmanuel SEJOURNE

Participants

27 quartets from Germany, Brasil, Croatia, Hungary, Japan, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Australia, Bulgaria, U.S.A. Island, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Taiwan

1st prize

Yarn (France)

3rd prize

Trio Bump (France)

« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of "Les Uns" written by Philippe Leroux (set piece - semi-final)

Trio Bump (France)

« radio 100,7 » prize for the best interpretation "Troika" written by Walter Civitareale or "Collage" written by Albert M. Marinov (set piece - final round)

Yarn (France)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

Yarn (France)

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ, John BECK, Jean GEOFFROY, Daniel KASE, Katarzyna MYCKA, Isao NAKAMURA, Peter PROMMEL

Participants

25 trios from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Taiwan

1st prize

db-Duo (Sweden)

2nd prize

Elements (The Netherlands / Spain)

3rd prize

The Israeli Percaduo (Israel)

« Ady Mootz » prize for the best interpretation of "Na Shefa" written by Boris Dinev (set piece - semi-final)

Elements (The Netherlands / Spain)

« radio 100,7 » prize for the best interpretation of "Dialog I" written by Claude Lenners (set piece - final round)

Elements (The Netherlands / Spain)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

The Israeli Percaduo (Israel)

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ, John H. BECK, Siegfried FINK, Jean GEOFFROY, Katarzyna MYCKA, Tomoyuki OKADA, Boris DINEV

Participants

35 duos from Japan, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Sweden, Bulgaria, Israel, The Netherlands, Norwegia, Poland, Switzerland, U.S.A.

1st prize ex aequo

Katarzyna Mycka (Poland) and Momoko Kamiya (Japan)

3rd prize

Nadesda Vranska (Bulgaria)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

Katarzyna Mycka (Poland)

Jury members

Paul MOOTZ, John H. BECK, Siegfried FINK, Anders KOPPEL, Bent LYLLOFF, Emmanuel SEJOURNE, Dobri PALIEV

Participants

50 solists from Romania, Belgium, Spain, China, France, Japan, Germany, U.S.A., Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Italy, Korea, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Denmark, Switzerland, Israel

1st prize

Robojo Ensemble (Sweden)

2nd prize

Stockholm Percussion Trio (Sweden)

3rd prize

Acte Trois (France)

« Jean Gieres » prize determined by the audience during the final round

Trio from Luxembourg

Jury members

Roland HENSGEN, Makoto ARUGA, John H. BECK, Siegfried FINK, Claude GIOT, Bent LYLLOFF, Paul MOOTZ

Participants

14 trios from Poland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, France, Japan, Hungary, Luxembourg

1st prize

Percussion Art Quartett (Würzburg, Germany)

2nd prize

Shun-Ka-Shu-Toh (Japan)

3rd prize

Polyrhytmia (Bulgaria)

« Jean Gieres » prize for the best interpretation of a piece by a luxembourgish composer in the preliminary round and in the semi-final

Quatuor de percussion de Luxembourg

Public prize determined by the audience during the final round

Polyrhytmia (Bulgaria)

Jury members

Roland HENSGEN, John H. BECK, Keiko NAKAMURA, Paul MOOTZ, Jacques DELECLUSE, Siegfried FINK, Dr. Dobri PALIEV

Participants

12 quartets from Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, RSSU, Japan, Luxembourg