At the 5th International Composition Competition "New Music Generation" Julius von Lorentz has won the 1st prize in the category "vocal composition" of under 21-year-olds with his piece "imagine tree bark was once liquid lava".

The competition was held by the Kazakh National University of Arts with an international jury including Tristan Murail, Ivan Fedele, Vladimir Tarnopolski and Yuri Kasparov.