Composition Competition
Final Results

The seventh international composition contest "Michele Pittaluga" for classical guitar ended last 7th June 2006 with the following results:


1St Prize:
Pseudonym: SANATINO n.29
Title: Suite alla Sonatina- in direzione meridionale-
During: ca 11'50''
for guitar and violin
by:
TAKAHIRO SAKUMA (30/6/1972)
3-5-4-603, Izumi-chuo, Izumi-ku
SENDAI, MIYAGI, JAPAN 981-3133
ph/fax: 0081-22-218-1656
email: tsargentino@yahoo.co.jp

2nd Prize:
Pseudonym: GLEAM n.33
Title: Dialogue
During: ca 10'
for guitar and flute
by:
MAURIZIO BILLI (21/1/1964)
Via Erasmo Gattamelata 164
00176 ROMA
ITALIA
ph 0644373689 fax 064462193
email: mauriziobil@libero.it

3rd Prize:
not awarded

Honourable mention to:
Pseudonym: ANELE n.16
Title: Diptich
During: ca 9'30''
for guitar and flute
by:
JONAS TAMULIONIS
Tauro 8*11
01114 Vilnius
LITHUANIA
ph 0037/0616/10552
email: janus@tamulionis.cm

The comments by Ricardo Iznaola, president of the Jury...

1st Prize

“The winning work, «Suite alla Sonatina in direzione meridionale »is written with brilliance and craftsmanship, bringing echoes and reminiscences of great modern works of the guitar from the Southern hemisphere, most prominently the Sonata by Ginastera , which it evokes without quoting.
Violin and guitar thus present a kind of “Omaggio” to this great tradition, with an attractive vitality……”

2nd Prize

“The second prize winning work, «Dialogue» also draws its inspiration from a previous masterpiece, n this case Benjamin Britten’s Nocturnal. Textures and rhythmic gestures from the Nocturnal are interwoven with an angular but flowing and, generally, introspective flute filigree, through which a “rubato” line surfaces amidst the apparent complexity of the score……”