Gaudeamus International Composers Award
The composition prize of the Gaudeamus Foundation is a prestigious, European award, which was awarded by the Music Centre of the Netherlands (Dutch Muziek Centrum Nederland), which commenced the earlier, separate Gaudeamus Foundation in recent years. The prize is awarded in a ceremony during the so-called Gaudeamus Music Week (Dutch Gaudeamus Muziekweek ) for an outstanding young composer, who presented his work this week. As of 2011, this week is no longer under the auspices of the Music Centre of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Centrum Muziek XXI of but are held in Utrecht.