Toronto composer Riho Maimets wins prize, commission from last week’s ECM+ tour

The Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal has concluded its annual tour of works by emerging Canadian composers by announcing Riho Maimets’s composition as the winner of this year’s audience prize.

A total of 720 audience members from concerts in eight cities voted 79 per cent for Maimets’ Béatitude, earning him the “Prix du public Génération 2012,” which includes a $1,500 cheque as well as a commission of a new chamber work that will be premiered by the Ensemble next season.

Torontonian Maimets is currently studying at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.

John Terauds