Rast Music Awards

3rd Rast Music Awards

25-16th November, 2023

Rast Music Awards is dedicated to promoting music researchers, performers, and artists on the rise and established high-quality music standards while supporting charitable causes through the Rast Musicology Journal Academic Board. This award was established by the Young Wise Publishing Ltd at London, UK, music publishers, in 2021, and is given for the publication of a work by gifted scientists, artists, performers, and composers.

Rast Musicology Journal Academic Board is as an honor board of the academic world-leading scientists, artists, composers, and writers. The Board’s 10 members are determined for one year and pay no dues. In addition to electing new members as vacancies occur, the Board seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Music by administering over 27 awards and prizes.

Rast Music Awards are announced once a year. Candidates submit their applications, awards are distributed as a result of the evaluation by the award committee.

Candidates apply to the Rast Music Awards in two main categories: art and science. Rast Music Awards’ main and sub-categories are as follows.

Conditions of the Art Awards Category

• Candidate works must be published between 1 January and 31 October 2023 of this year, in a printed album or in social media.
• Recordings are expected to be of high quality and intelligible.
• The classical style and attitude characteristics of each category should be reflected in the composition/performing.
• For vocal and instrumental performances, it is expected to be one of the works in the repertoire of the relevant category or composed in that style, which requires technically high performance skills.
• Distortion of the words or pitches of the works other than the truth will not be accepted.

Conditions of the Science Awards Category

Scientific publication applications should be in the right research design, have a high impact factor in the field, and should be from musicology subjects.

Assoc.Prof. Serdar Erkan

Rast Awards Committee Chair

Please submit your nominated performance link

Organization Committee 

1st Music Awards (December 2021) List

1. Hakan Emre Ziyagil  nominated by the committee for your work “Silent Scream” in the Techno Music category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Techno Music category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

2. Seda Tüfekcioğlu nominated by the committee for your work “Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’nin Mevaidü’n-Nefais adlı eserinde Türk çalgıları” in the Most Read Article Category (at the RMJ). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Most Read Article Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

3. Pooyan Azadeh nominated by the committee for your work “Zange Shahi” in the Western Music – Piano Category (at the IRMC). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Western Music – Piano Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

4. Rumiana Margaritova nominated by the committee for your work “A Virtual Tour in the Alevi Ritual Music and Semahlar from the Eastern Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria” in the Research Project- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Research Project- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

5. Scott Smith nominated by the committee for your work “The Internationalization of Piano Education: Piano Literature and Pedagogy from Countries Around the World: “The Intercultural Piano Education Project” from The Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth” in the Research Project- Western Music Research Category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Research Project- Western Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Committee.

6. Panya Roongruang nominated by the committee for your work “Creative Research in Ethnomusicology: PhD Curriculum at Babgkoktonburi University in Thailand” in the Proceedings – Musicology Category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Proceedings – Musicology Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

7. Johee LEE and Inho LEE nominated by the committee for your work “A study on film score applying the Neo-Riemannian theory: focusing on Bernard Herrmann’s mysterious island” in the Article – Interdisciplinary Music Research (at the RMJ). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Article – Interdisciplinary Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

8. Fidan İldırımlı nominated by the committee for your work “Variety and melodic features in based on the mode of Shushter and Humayun rangs” in the Proceedings – Turkish Music Research Category (at the IRMC). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Proceedings – Turkish Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.

Rast Music Awards Committee