Orchestral work „Sula” („Thaw”, 1999) by Helena Tulve got high appreciation being awarded the prize of the International Society of Contemporary Music annual festival held from July 14 to 29 in Stuttgart.
Helena Tulve was awarded the ISCM-CASH Young Composers Award 2006, inaugurated in 2002. The award is a joint project of the ISCM and the Composers and Authors Society Hong Kong and is presented each year to a selected composer under the age of 35 whose work is featured at the annual ISCM World New Music Festival. The award is intended as a commission for a new chamber ensemble work to be premiered in the International Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. „Thaw” by Helena Tulve was performed by Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lukas Vis.
The annual festival of the ISCM is held in different member state of the organization every year. The festival program represents a great assortment of new music selected by the reputable international jury of composers. In this year, about 30 works from 518 were selected by jury consisting of Wolfgang Rihm, Georg Benjamin, Unsuk Chin, Pascal Dusapin, Julios Estrada, Hans-Peter Jahn and Vladimir Tarnopolsky. In all, new music from about 60 countries was performed. Besides Helena Tulve, a lot of prominent authors and newcomers were represented in festival program, Jukka Tiensuu (Finland), Amr Okba (Egypt), Jennifer Walshe (Ireland), Georgis Aperghis (France) Sergei Nevsky and Anton Safronov (Russia), Misato Mochizuki (France), Dror Feiler (Sweden) and many others among them.