Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music
Established in 1978 by the Right Honourable Jules Léger, then Governor General of Canada, the Jules Léger Prize is a $7,500 national award designed to encourage Canadian composers to write for chamber music groups and to foster the performance of Canadian chamber music by these groups. Three organisations are involved in the prize: the Canadian Music Centre, which administers the prize; the Canada Council for the Arts, which funds and promotes the prize and selects the jury; and CBC Radio Music and Espace Musique de Radio-Canada, which broadcast the winning work on the national stereo networks.