Composition contest
2024 Composition Contest
Registrations for the 2024 Composition Contest are closed. The three finalists will be announced in September and will attend the WSA Film Music Days, including the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert on 16 October where Brussels Philharmonic will perform their music live, after which the winner of the Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer will be announced.
Submissions for the 2025 Composition Contest will open in February/ March 2025.
© Jeroen Willems2024 Winner Composition Contest: Florian van der Reijden
In 2024, Dutch composer Florian van der Reijden won the Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer with his music for an excerpt from Nicolas Roeg's cult classic The Witches (1990). Van der Reijden graduated in classical piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, before completing a master's in film composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In recent years, he has composed concert music as well as music for film, musicals and games. Last year, he also received the award for Best Original Score at the Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille for his score for A Capella in D Minor.
Previous winners
2023 - Alec Sievern
2022 - Giacomo Rita
2021 - Dougal Kemp
2020 - Ana Kasrashvili
2019 - Pierre Charles
2018 - Logan Nelson
2017 - Gavin Brivik
2016 - Sándor Török
2015 - Peer Kleinschmidt
2014 - Cyril Molesti
2013 - Gilles Alonzo
2012 - Valentin Hadjadj
2011 - Gabriel Heinrich
2010 - Karzan Mahmood
2009 - Christopher Slaski
2008 - Cédric Murrath
2007 - Werner Viaene
2006 - Alexis Koustoulidis
2005 - Hannes De Maeyer
2004 - Steven Prengels
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