Created in 2014 by Sharon Azrieli CQ, DMus for the Azrieli Foundation, the Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition. The four prize packages—valued at $200,000 CAD per laureate—make AMP the top competition for music composition in Canada and one of the largest in the world.
Mathew Rosenblum’s works have been performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and many others, and appear on the MODE, New World Records, New Focus Recordings and BMOP/sound labels. His honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Fromm Foundation Commissions, a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant and a Barlow Endowment Commission. Using a variety of tuning systems, his work does not live within traditional boundaries, creating a compellingly fresh landscape.
During Linda Bouchard’s fifty-year musical career, she has been a composer, conductor, orchestrator, producer, researcher and mentor. She has spent her professional life between New York, California and Canada, but always returning to Montréal as her home port. Her works have been recorded by the CBC, Analekta, ECM and Bang on a Can, among others. Bouchard is the recipient of the Composer of the Year Award from the Conseil québécois de la musique, and she has served as composer-in-residence with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
Luis Arias is a Spanish composer born in Granada and currently based in Madrid. He has worked with orchestras and ensembles such as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Venezuelan National Symphony Orchestra, United Instruments of Lucilin ensemble (Luxembourg), Tonkünstler Orchestra (Austria) and Doelen Ensemble (Netherlands). His 2022 work Hyperconnected Fragmentations was written for Tanglewood Music Center, where he was a Composition Fellow. In that same year, he won first prize at the XXXIII SGAE-CNDM Young Composer Spanish Awards with his work Arya.
Today, the Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) named four outstanding composers as the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Laureates. Created in 2014 by Dr. Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, the biennial Azrieli Music Prizes celebrate excellence in music composition.
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Since 1989, the Azrieli Foundation has dedicated its resources to improving lives through education, research, healthcare and the arts. Thirty-five years later, the Foundation—the largest non-corporate foundation in Canada—continues its tradition of philanthropic innovation.

Created in 2014 by Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, the Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition.
The AMP juries are comprised of a pool of leading composers, musicologists, conductors and concert presenters. Full juries can be found on each of the Prize pages.
The four prize packages—valued at $250,000 CAD per laureate—make AMP the top competition for music composition in Canada and one of the largest in the world. They include a cash prize, Canadian and international performances and recordings.