On 11 September, during the Gaudeamus Festival, Nieuw Geneco presented the Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Award 2026 to the Het Zingend Hart Choir and the Dianto Reed Quintet in recognition of their boundless dedication and commitment to fair and sustainable practices in contemporary music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By presenting the Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Award, the professional association Nieuw Geneco (Society of Dutch Composers) is drawing attention to fair practice, fee guidelines and good commissioning practices in the field of new music. \u201cMuch has improved since the Award was first presented in 2019,\u201d says Esther Gottschalk, initiator and director of Nieuw Geneco. \u201cThe Nieuw Geneco Fee Schedule has now become the universally recognised guideline for composition commissions. Commissioning bodies are also becoming increasingly aware of what constitutes good commissioning practice. Through the annual Award, we draw attention in a positive way to issues that are often persistent.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dutch initiative has since been replicated in Denmark, and fortunately there is also growing interest in fair practice and fair pay in the cultural sector in other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year marks the seventh time the prize has been awarded. Composers from Nieuw Geneco submitted reasoned nominations, based on their recent experiences and assessed against the Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Code. The jury, comprising Huba de Graaff (composer), Anthony Fiumara (composer) and Aleksandra Markovi\u0107 (publisher), had previously announced the nominees. From these, the jury selected no fewer than two winners. The two prizes are of equal standing and recognise the fact that both major and smaller players can adopt a fair practice policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the winners in both categories, the jury is awarding an honourable mention this year to Orkest De Ereprijs. With no fewer than five nominations from as many composers \u2013 Reza Namavar, Cecilia Arditto, Yu Oda, Sara Zamboni and Silvia Borzelli \u2013 the orchestra stood out on the shortlist as a commissioning body recognised and appreciated by a remarkably broad cross-section of the field. The jury wishes to make special and honourable mention of this number, and the unanimity with which it was achieved, at the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe jury has chosen the Het Zingend Hart Choir as the winner in the category for smaller private initiatives. Whilst many amateur associations view fair practice as something that has little to do with them, this choir demonstrates the opposite: composer Huub de Vriend has been paid fairly and in accordance with the fee scale not for just one, but for several productions (\u2018Geluid van Licht\u2019, \u2018Snikken en Grimlachjes\u2019 and \u2018Het ontzet van Leyden\u2019), consistently and fairly in accordance with the fee scale \u2013 and has done so for at least twenty-two years. It is precisely this consistency that makes the nomination compelling: this is not a one-off gesture, but a systematic and enduring approach to commissioning, in which composers \u2013 as the choir itself states on its own website \u2013 are regarded as full partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe jury is delighted to announce the Dianto Reed Quintet as the winner in the category for larger, subsidised initiatives. With the DNA project, the quintet demonstrates how a composition commission can develop into a multi-year, international adventure: from premiere to extensive tour, to album and video recording, and from artistic concept to a sincere exploration of the musicians\u201d own origins. The commissioned composers, Ramin Amin Tafreshi and Fuensanta M\u00e9ndez, received not only fair remuneration but also an artistic environment in which their work was given a permanent place alongside classical, traditional and folk repertoire. The Dianto Reed Quintet demonstrates that a relatively small ensemble, when it invests persistently in new repertoire and in the composers who write it, can develop into a large-scale cultural project with clear social significance. The fact that this ensemble has only been in existence for a short time makes its achievement all the more remarkable: in a short space of time, it has managed to establish a \u2018fair practice\u2019 ethos, thereby demonstrating to younger and emerging initiatives that commissioning can \u2013 and must \u2013 be fair from the very outset.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Award consists of the composition\/video \u2018Side by side\u2019, featuring music, lyrics and visuals created by composer David Dramm. Performed by Diamanda La Berge Dramm and Nora Fischer. The winners received the composition in the form of a large LP-style music card, presented to them by the composers who had nominated them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previous winners of the Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Award were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2019: Orgelpark & Fie Schouten<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021: The Ereprijs Orchestra & patron Marcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022: Opera Zuid & Toonzetters van Oranjewoud Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023: November Music & Black Pencil Ensemble<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024: Wonderfeel & Bauwien van der Meer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025: New European Ensemble & the Perforator Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nieuw Geneco Fee Table is widely accepted across the sector as a calculation tool for composition commissions; it has been validated by Platform ACCT and is supported by the Professional Association of Improvising Musicians (BIMpro), BAM, Kunstenbond, the Association of Composers and Lyricists (VCTN) and the Dutch Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMUV), and is regarded as the benchmark for grant applications.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nieuw Geneco heeft op 11 september tijdens de Gaudeamus Festival de Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Award 2026 uitgereikt aan Koor Het Zingend Hart en Dianto Reed Quintet voor hun tomeloze inzet en commitment aan een eerlijke en duurzame praktijk in de nieuwe muziek. 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