Dear Friends at Opusmodus team,

With great joy, I´d like to share with you an important international prize I received as composer in 28th november. It´s the IBERMÚSICAS prize for Symphonic Band 2025. It was very competitive and I´m honored to represent Brazil in this contest.

I´m posting this here because Opusmodus became since 2017 a very important tool in my compositional process, although I do not use it from beginning to end, i.e., there are many things I do manually. Nevertheless, it plays a crucial role in my workflow and I´d like to thanks the team for this.

All the best and happy 2026 !

Here are the selected compositions:

https://seleccionados2025.ibermusicas.org/

And the information of the selection:

https://www.ibermusicas.org/index.php/um-juri-constituido-por-maestras-e-maestros-de-renome-levou-a-cabo-o-processo-de-qualificacao-e-selecao-das-obras-vencedoras-do-premio-ibermusicas-para-a-composicao-de-obra-para-banda-sinfonica-20/

Translation

A jury composed of renowned conductors carried out the qualification and selection process for the winning works of the “Ibermúsicas Prize for the Composition of a Work for Symphonic Band” 2025.

Encouraging musical creation, Ibermúsicas has launched a new edition of its competitions for the creation of academic works, this time specifically focused on the creation of new works for symphonic bands, to be premiered by top-tier ensembles from Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela.

In this edition, composers were invited to draw inspiration from the Ibero-American soundscape, as a diverse and colorful space, varied and contrasting, which, despite its differences, weaves threads, like the symphonic wind bands that traverse our countries and blend with their different cultures, to find very particular sonorities that make them unique in each country or region.

With the aim of promoting mutual understanding between the peoples and the specific subsector of wind bands among our countries, composers were encouraged to explore this sonic universe through the repertoires, genres, and soundings of bands from different countries, schools, and their reference composers, among many other possibilities that unite the countries that are part of Ibero-American cooperation.

The award includes, in addition to financial recognition for each creator, the premiere of the winning works performed by the Valle Departmental Symphonic Band of Colombia, one of the seven bands of the General Directorate of Bands of Costa Rica, the National Concert Band of Cuba, the Symphonic Band of the Faculty of Music of UNAM in Mexico, and the Caracas Marching Band of Venezuela.

The jury, composed of Andrés Porras Alfaro from Costa Rica, David Leonardo Guarin Ortiz from Colombia, Marcia Quesada from Cuba, Luis Manuel Sánchez from Mexico, and Pedro Mauricio Gonzalez from Venezuela, worked intensively on selecting the winning works from among the 62 submitted to the competition under pseudonyms.

With pride and joy, the Ibermúsicas Program invites you to discover the names of the winning male and female composers of this competition here.

https://seleccionados2025.ibermusicas.org/

Congratulations, Julio, on the award. I would love to see one of your concerts live.

Thanks a lot, Janusz !

All the best !!

Julio