December 2008, this composition has been selected from the 158 scores that were entered in the Composition Competition by an international jury, chaired by Arie Van Lysebeth. The jury consisted of Julian Anderson, Toshio Hosokawa, Michael Jarrell, Hanspeter Kyburz, Claude Ledoux, Tristan Murail and Frederik van Rossum.
The 3 finalists are Qian Shen-Ying [China], Valerio Sannicandro [Italy] en Ludovic Thirvaudey [France].