Centraal thema van de Rotterdam Music Biennial is het gebruik van live-elektronica en interactiviteit. De Speciale Prijs, deze keer uitgeschreven voor de deelnemer die het beste c.q. De jury, bestaande uit Ton Hartsuiker, Pauline Oliveros, Melvyn Poore en David Starobin en Frances-Marie Uitti, bepaalt vandaag wie de overige prijswinnaars zijn. The Rotterdam Music Biennial is an initiative by Gaudeamus and the Rotterdam Conservatory . The 33rd International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition is organized in the framework of the biennial.
Main theme is electro-acoustic music and live electronics.
The Special Prize, this time for the best use of electronics, was awarded yesterday at the end of the second round to recorder player Jorge Isaac . In the First Round there were more than seventy participants from thirty countries. In the Second Round eleven soloists, two duos, one trio, and one quartet performed. The next competition will take place in 2003. This concert is recorded by VPRO-radio for later broadcast on the Dutch Radio 4 station.