INTERNATIONAL AVE VERUM COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Winners in IAVCC 2025
Thank you to everyone who participated in IAVCC 2025!
This year’s winners are:
The premiere performance will be web broadcasted worldwide live via YOUTUBE on May 9th, 2026 during the LONG NIGHT OF CHORAL MUSIC at St. Stephan’s Church, Baden.
We whole-heartedly congratulate the winners!
Participants 2025
A big thank you to everyone among the 37 composers worldwide who followed our invitation to this challenging competition.
To broaden the recognition of the big efforts composers took to take part at the IAVCC 2025 the jury and the ICC AV organizing team decided to give GOLDEN (80 – 100pts), SILVER (70 – 79pts) and BRONZE DIPLOMAS (60 – 69pts).
| pts / 100 | starting no. | prize | country | name of composer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94,1 | 6 | 1st prize | Italy | Giampiero Castagna |
| 88 | 3 | 2nd prize | Netherlands | Henry Huisjes |
| 87,5 | 36 | 3rd prize | Spain | Francisco Carbonell |
| 86,3 | 34 | Germany | Jan Lehmann | |
| 86,1 | 17 | Italy | Stefano Sposetti | |
| 84,6 | 33 | Germany | Jan Lehmann | |
| 83,8 | 8 | Italy | Salvo Gangi | |
| 83,5 | 37 | United Kingdom | Eilir Owen Griffiths | |
| 79,3 | 18 | United Kingdom | Chris O´Hara | |
| 78 | 9 | Norway | Dalene Coldicott Joanne | |
| 77,3 | 10 | Italy | Monica Nasti | |
| 77,3 | 13 | Germany | Klaus Mieling | |
| 76,7 | 31 | Russia | Dmitri Maksimachev | |
| 76 | 16 | Italy | Angelo Bernardelli | |
| 75,8 | 4 | Canada | Stella Claire ter Hart | |
| 75,3 | 11 | Germany | Klaus Mieling | |
| 74,7 | 29 | Austria | Peter Joachim Heinrich | |
| 74,3 | 25 | USA | Stephen Mellon | |
| 73,2 | 5 | Spain | Rafel Fort Aragonés | |
| 71,7 | 35 | Netherlands | Jos Martens | |
| 71,3 | 20 | Sweden | Per Dahlkvist | |
| 70,5 | 2 | Austria | Michael Aschauer | |
| 70,3 | 32 | Germany | Jan Lehmann | |
| 70 | 27 | Taiwan | Ichen Sun | |
| 69,8 | 12 | Germany | Klaus Mieling | |
| 68,5 | 1 | Germany | Tilo Müller-Heidelberg | |
| 68,2 | 14 | Canada | Michael Denis Kurek | |
| 68,2 | 7 | Hungary | Peter Nógrádi | |
| 67,2 | 15 | Ukraine | Maria Slepchenko | |
| 67 | 30 | Italy | Falco Donato | |
| 66,7 | 19 | Brasilia | Roberto Ribeira Macedo | |
| 65,8 | 21 | New Zealand | Graeme Fuller | |
| 64,5 | 22 | New Zealand | Graeme Fuller | |
| 63,5 | 28 | Taiwan | Shevaun Chan | |
| 63,2 | 23 | Canada | Gerda Wilson | |
| 63 | 24 | Italy | Andrea Montalbano | |
| 62,8 | 26 | Canada | Sarah McLean |