Winner: Nora Elsa Ponte, Argentina.

The prize-winning composition “Tracce” for Piano and Orchestra was premiered in Saarbrücken on 1st June 2000 as part of the festival “Musik im 21. Jahrhundert.” The soloist was Stefan Litwin and Bradley Lubman conducted the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Nora Ponte was born in 1968 and studied composition with Mariano Etkin in Buenos Aires supplemented by courses of further study in Italy with Franco Donatoni und Giacomo Manzoni.

Jury: Henri Pousseur, Frederic Rzewski, Jonathan Harvey