IRINO PRIZE

Online submission for the 49th IRINO PRIZE 2025 is now open.

The regulations for the 49th IRINO PRIZE are available on the [49_Regulations] and can be downloaded from [download_regulations].

You can access the online submission site for the 49th IRINO PRIZE at [Online_Submission].

A list of the required information for online submission is available at [required_information] and can also be downloaded from [download_guidance].

The submission deadline is 23:59 Japan Time (GMT+9) on August 31, 2025.

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The awardee of the 47th  IRINO PRIZE for Chamber-Orchestral Work, 2024	Award: 300,000 JPY
“Sequentia”    -2023-  (7 min) for 9 instruments Composer : Nuno Costa (1986, Portugal)

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The awardee of the 48th IRINO PRIZE for Chamber Music, 2024	Award: 200,000 JPY
“Khaínô” – 2024- (14 min) for flute, saxophone, accordion/bandoneon, percussion and electronics Composer : Rocío CANO VALIÑO (1991, Argentina)

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Total of Entries: 22 compositions from 11 countries for the 47th, and 85 compositions from 20 countries for the 48th.
Jury: Mari TAKANO(Chair), Satoshi TANAKA, Takayuki RAI, Haruyuki  SUZUKI, Rica NARIMOTO, and Yasuaki ITAKURA (special jury for the 47th)

On June 21, 2024, in Tokyo, Prof. Joji Yuasa, a former member of the Irino Prize honorary jury, passed away. He was 94 years old and had been a member of the Irino Prize jury for nearly four decades.

Some of prize winning compositions are available at Irino Prize Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@IrinoPrize

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IRINO PRIZE Award
300,000 JPY for Chamber-Orchestral Work.
200,000 JPY for Chamber Music work. (in the case of multiple awardees, 150,000 JPY each)

Permanent Juries: 
Satoshi TANAKA, Takayuki RAI, Mari TAKANO, Haruyuki SUZUKI, Rica NARIMOTO

Irino Prize steering committee :
C.MATSUBARA, Y.OHISHI, T.KAKINUMA, S.CHOKI, S.TANAKA, T.RAI

Competition in 2025: 
The 49th IRINO PRIZE for Chamber Music, 2025
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Details: Entry Guidelines

Organizer and Contact:
THE IRINO PRIZE FOUNDATION (Ms. Tomoe IRINO, President)
c/o NPO JML Yoshiro Irino Music Institute
5-22-2 Matsubara, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-0043 Japan
Tel: +81-3-3323-0646
Fax: +81-3-3325-5468
E-mail: Contact Form
URL: https://www.irinoprize.jp

Orchestral Works [1981-2009] Masanori Fujita(1), Toshio Hosokawa(3), Mamoru Fujieda(5), Isao Matsushita(7), Satoshi Tanaka(9), Claudio Cojaniz(11), Casper Johannes Walter(13), Kumiko Omura(15), Ignacio Baca-Lobera(17), Ana Mihajlovic-Leyden(19), Gyu-Bong Yi(21), Siraseth Pantura-umporn(23), Diana Rotaru(25), Rica Narimoto(29)
Chamber-Orchestral Works [2010- ] Yair Klartag(31), Nicolas Tzortzis(33), Ying Wang(35), Takahiro Kuroda(37), Marisol Jiménez(39), Marco Longo(41), Caterina Di Cecca(44) , Nuno Costa(47)
Chamber Music [1981- ] Takayuki Rai(2), Takashi Koto(3), Mari Takano(3), Mia Schmidt(8), Cort Lippe(8), Masahiro Miwa(10), Julian Jing-Jun Yu(10), James Harley(10), Mike Vaughan(10), Jia Daqun(12), Claude Lenners(14), Victor Kissin(16), Haruyuki Suzuki(16), Taizo Hida(18), Jun Yamaguchi(20), Emanuele Casale(22), Boris Filanovski(24), Peter Gahn(26), Javier Jimmy Lopez(26), Evis Sammoutis(28), Jasna Velickovic(28), Tomi Raisanen(28), Giovanni Enrico Lo Curto(30), Rafael Nassif(32), Alberto Rampani(32), Richard Perrin(34), Keitaro Takahashi(34), Naoki Sakata(36), Rafael Nassif(36), Tak Cheung Hui(38), Jouni Hirvelã(38), Jesse Broekman(40), Utku Asuroglu(40), Jaime Belmonte(42), Demian Rudel Rey(43), Zuosheng Jin(43), Yuji Yao(45), Tsu-Yao Yang(45), Yuheng Chen(46), Rocío Cano Valiño(48)