Calefax
Composers
Competition

Welcome to the archive of the Calefax Composers Competition. This page provides free access to the scores and parts of works that have been submitted in this yearly competition. By putting this collection online we aim at making as much reed quintet repertoire available as possible to all other existing Reed Quintets in the world. Music should sound!

The instrumentation of a ‘Reed Quintet’ is slightly flexible. All pieces in this archive can be performed by five musicians and do not exceed the instrumentation that is required for the Calefax Composers’ Competition:
1 Oboe / Cor anglais / Oboe d’amore
2 Clarinet (B-flat / A)
3 Saxophone (Alto / Soprano)
4 Bass clarinet / Basset horn (a few scores ask for Contrabass clarinet)
5 Bassoon

Only scores from composers who explicitly granted permission are presented in this archive. We were able to contact many but not all composers of the past six editions of the competition. Participants who don’t find their piece here but do want to be listed are kindly requested to contact us through productie@calefax.nl. If you’d like to perform one of the works on a concert, please also contact Calefax, so we can get you in touch with the composer. Thank you!

Winners Calefax Composers Competition

Past winners of the Calefax Composers Competition were:

Erik Valdemar Sköld (2024, Sweden)
Ufuk Biçak (2022, Turkey)
Abraham Gomez (2021, Mexico) (link)
Patrick John Jones (2020, UK) (link)
Nina Shekar (2020, US) (link)
Ugurcan Öztekin (2019, Turkey) (link)
Yeonju Kim (2018, South-Korea)
Yonatan Ron (2018, Israel)
Mithatcan Öcal  (2017, Turkey)
Janco Verduin (2015, Netherlands) (link)
Michael Walsh (2014, UK)
Corey Dundee (2013, USA)
Didier Marc Garin (2012, France)
José Mora-Jiménez (2011, Costa-Rica/Netherlands) (link)
Jeffrey Harrington (2010, VS/France)
Heleen Verleur (2009, Netherlands)
Holger de Bruin (2008, Netherlands)

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Find the archive of the Calefax Composers Competition below:

2022

Bill Joel – La vita é un circo
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Casper van Nugteren – Ti Penso IV
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Christopher Weait – A Child Discovers…
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Dionicio Aguirre Treviño – Olvidarás el Fuego
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Evelin Seppar – Oh You
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Florence Anna Maunders – Dropp’d Hard
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Harald Walkate – The Rest is Silence
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Marnen Laibow-Koser – Slow Air and Dance
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Nicolas Kummert – Ballet d’Etoiles
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Ong Ping Din – Propagations
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Panos Gklistis – A Quote and the Dance of the Broken Puppet
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Peter Machajdik – Blurred
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Theofilos Lambrianidis – In the Same Mode
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Tineke Lemmens – Short Circuit
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Sebastian Zaczek – Treiben
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Ufuk Biçak – Devinim
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2020

Aaron S. Ricucci-Hill – Aftershock
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Adam Bar-Pereg – All I Got From 2020 Was This Lousy Composition
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Anthony Conroy – Five Studies on Dynamic Entropy
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Camila Salomé Menino – Stereo(types)
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Chuck Holdeman – Amuse Oreille
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Colin MacDonald – Raices
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Emiel Matthijsse – Block 5
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Emircan Pehlivan – Antiqua Fragmentorum
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Genian Kulakov – My Dream
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George Blakesley – Rolling
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Ian Stephens – Springhead
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John Gibson – Extinction Events
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Julian Grant – Il mio bimbo…
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Remco Menting – Waai
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Remy Alexander – Have u decided?
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Tak-Wei Wong – Last But Not Least (Special Mention by Northern Reeds)
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Titus Tielens – Le Quotidien
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Twan Swagten – Sound of the City
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Zach Gulaboff Davis – Divergence
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2019

Adriaan Denkers – What Will We Have For Desert
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Amin Ebrahimi – Ghamish
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Christiaan Janssen – 8 Miniature Variations
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David Kosviner – kaleido_scape
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Davin Mosterd – Memory of a Forest
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Femke Bun – Inward Shift
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Massimo Beckers – Osmanthus
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Michael Simon – I AND HE
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Patrick John Jones – Uncanny Vale
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Paul Frankhuijzen – The Infinity of Landscape
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Polina Medyulyanova – Gyre
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Twan Swagten – Gasperzo Caprice
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Tze Yeung Ho – vihik (e)
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Willem Tanke – The Wisdom of the Oak

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Wim Kuijt – And Water…
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2015

Dario Arciniega – Children on a Winter Morning
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Hans Bakker – Het Verre Nabij
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Paul Bruinen – Metamorphosen
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Steve Ege – The Return
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Christiaan Janssen – Cortège
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Paul Kopetz – Axolotl Rag
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Joaquín Mendoza Sebastián – The bitter taste of green buildings
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Mathieu Polak – Big Ben
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Pál Rózsa – Easy piece, with love Op. 575
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Yimin Wu – Orientation Day
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2013

Hans Bakker – The Valley Spirit Never Dies
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Bart Delissen – Prelude & Allegro
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Alp Durmaz – Clowns
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Peter Greve-Side Effects
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John Leszczynski-Variations in the Reeds (sample)
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Jean de Lière – Poema per Quintetto di Ancia (Ode aan de Noordermarkt)
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César Lüttger – Échecs
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di Maggio – Diego in Arona
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Kaori Nakano – Fu Jin
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Ruud Roelofsen – Glitch
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Hans Tolhuijs – Departure-Change flight-Arrival
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Toon Vandevorst – Elephant Grass
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Huub de Vriend – Tabee, Tabee, New York
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Arthur Wagenaar – sly buxom baggage
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2010

Jeffrey Harrington – Ranae (and 3 other reed quintets)
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(winner CCC 2010)

Pieter Simons – il festo
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Emiel F.A.J. Stöpler – Articulate & Nightsearch
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2021

Anastasios Panos – Various Pieces
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Alexandre Almeida – Five Small Roads
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Abraham Gomez – Astro Errante
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Christian Smalt – Nu Al
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Jan Klein Swormink – KSP37 Rietkwintet in tijden van corona
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Jon Martin Vinje – Drøm
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Kalman Levitin – Six Jazzatelles
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Maja Tica – Kalamas Fuge
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Titus Tielens – Lockdown
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2018

Remy Alexander – It’s okay they’re only feelings
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Joe Clark – Impressions Emphemeral
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Jeroen Elfferich – Smart Conversations
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Will Hoogakker – Music for Reed Quintet I
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Will Hoogakker – Music for Reed Quintet II – Retrograde
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Yeonju Kim – Circularity (winner 2018)
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Yonatan Ron – Uberstunts (winner 2018)
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Spyros Syrmos – A Brawny Tree
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José Benjamín Falces Vaquero – Two Lines Over a Long One
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Donna Verdell – If this is It
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2017

Ron van Effrink – Going to the East
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Evgeny Irshai – Ikigai
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Christiaan Janssen – Suite 6
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Michal Lesniak – Mandragora
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Ryszard Lubieniecki – Isorythmic Composition no. 3
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Andrew Middleton – Five Pieces for Reed Quintet
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Mithatcan Öcal – Avis Nocturna
(winnaar CCC 2017)
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Rósza Pál – … for Reed Quintet
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Heather Pinkham – A Balancing Act
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Ryne Siesky – Dispositive Contours
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Rob Verdurmen – A Short Adventure
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Mark Zuckerman – Close Reeding

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2014

Roman Blum – Sinfoniesatz in C minor
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Silvia Coricelli – QuinteTango
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Trevor Cramer – Mahler Songs
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Bernard Homan – Petit Quatuor
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Cornelia Sommer – Kapustin Variations
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2012

Rodrigo Baggio – Skyways
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Diane Berry – From the Salish Sea
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Andrea Coppini – Images of Sardinia
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Paul Gelsing
 – Liebe Grüsse aus Prag
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Luciano Guimaraes – A Musical Postcard from Brazil
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Evagelia Siarvali – Dias
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Pieter Simons – Kreta
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Rick van Velthuizen – weltjugend U6
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2011

Christos Alexopoulos – A walk in the part (he’s mad though…)
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Jose Mora Jimenez – MOBILE3
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(winner CCC 2011)

Pál Rózsa – Greetings from Hungary
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Pieter Simons – war is over
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