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esctoday.com Awards 2009
Sven Lõhmus wins Composer of the year award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Composer of the year goes to...
- ...Sven Lõhmus of Estonia
Sven Lõhmus wrote the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Performed by Urban Symphony, Rändajad finished third in the second semi final and sixth in the final.
- You can find the list of all award results revealed so far this year here.
The winner
This is the fifth esctoday.com award for Estonia both this year and overall. Previous awards have been won for Best duo/group performance, Most creative effort, Best arrangement and production and Best dressed act. The award for Composer of the year has previously gone to Zeljko Joksimovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) in 2006, Magdi Rúzsa (Hungary) in 2007 and Andrej Babic (Portugal) in 2008.
Sven Lõhmus has worked with many Baltic music acts including Vanilla Ninja, who later represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. He also wrote the song that represented Estonia in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest; Let's get loud finished 20th in the semi final. He has his own record label in Estonia and hit songs he wrote and produced include Club Kung Fu by Vanilla Ninja and Moonwalk by Laura, runner-up entry in the 2005 Estonian national final.
The complete results
Sven Lõhmus won in this category very narrowly ahead of the famous songwriting team from the United Kingdom. 2009 Eurovision Song Contest winner Alexander Rybak follows in third place.
- Sven Lõhmus (Estonia) - 23.5%
- Diane Warren and Andrew Lloyd Webber (United Kingdom) - 23.1%
- Alexander Rybak (Norway) - 19.8%
- Óskar Páll Sveinsson, Tinatin Japaridze and Chris Neil (Iceland) - 17.0%
- Aleksandar Covic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) - 16.7%
Studio version of the winning song
Interview with Sven Lõhmus after the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 (urbansymphony.eu, in Estonian)
The next award to be revealed today will be for Lyricist of the year/English lyrics.
Related polls
- Norway: Vote for your favourite song in the final of Melodi Grand Prix
- Azerbaijan: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Milli Seçim Turu
- Hungary: Vote for your favourite act in the final of A Dal
- Iceland: Vote for your favourite song in the final of Songvakeppni Sjonvarpsins
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Hungary: Vote for your favourite act in the second semifinal of A Dal
- Norway: Vote for your favourite song in the third semifinal of Melodi Grand Prix
- Sweden: Vote for your favourite act in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the semifinal of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Bulgaria: Vote for your favourite act in the Bulgarian national final 2012
- Latvia: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Eirodziesma 2012
- Belarus: Vote for your favourite act in the final of EuroFest 2012
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i don't get why bosnia is so low, behind uk even ! sick ! estonia is a good winner
deserved winner..!
Marcus
Ah ok I understand now, thanks 
Estonia had by far the most creative entry; both composition and orchestration were great. Would have been even better with a live orchestra playing the strings. Anyway, well deserved!
@ Thorazin Corazon
Actually, the Song of the year category rates the "whole package" of a song, which mainly means the music and the lyrics but also the intrumental arrangement, the vocal arrangement and maybe even the impact a song had on the contest. Composer of the year ist just about composition of the music.
I don't get it! Iceland won the best song award a little while back, but now Estonia is winning composer of the year, but surely they mean the same thing!? Given that the composers composed the songs, it's the same principle.
Anyway congrats to Estonia
great!!!! i love Randajaad!!!
So given this Estonia seems to be the favorite in winning the category of the best song followed by Icleand and then Norway
No here I voted for Alexander, he managed to produce a unique and original entry. Randajaad reminds very much ''Diamond of night'' in other words Estonia 1999.
spanish entry 2010 :
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=QHCI4VUTPYk
I'm happy that Estonia won this if it wasn't the UK - both stood out musically from the others
Norway and Iceland in 3 and 4 is also good.
Overall, think the results for this category were very fair.
>>> ink again - the song was average, too repetitive
How many more times? This category has nothing to do with the lyrics!!!
Estonia 09 rules - a true classic! I fully support this result, this song was hard done by the voters. The UK composers in 2nd place? Think again - the song was average, too repetitive and Jade did her best with the material she was given.
To all the UK bashers - this award is for the Composer - nothing to do with the lyrics (which is a separate category)
As far as the music goes, the UK well deserves the nomination in this category. As a piece of music it works well. I voted UK in this one and still think it was the best musically.
I always thought that Estonia deserved a higher placing this year. Judging by the results in the polls, it seems that lots of other people thought the same.
Fair enough. I voted Bosnia here. Estonia might as well win all of them now.
this is ridicilous. This award should have gone to Alexander Rybak! He is the only one in more than 10 years that have been able to compose a song that actually became a MAJOR hit after his win!!! and why Webber and Warren was nominated at all is a joke - "My Time" was one of the worst songs they have EVER made! and is one of the simpliest songs when it comes to the composition and lyrics this year...
Congrats to Estonia once more!
Do some people actually think that UK 2009 is a good composition??? Or is this some sort of joke I don't get. The song is so cheap and cliched that it makes me wanna run and seek shelter in the company of the elegant entries from France, Estonia, Lithuania, or BiH ... or even in the frolic company of Moldova!
The man is a genious. With a fantastic song, he brought Estonia back to the top ten. Well done! I still don't get how ALW and his disney song got 2nd place.
Estonia deserved to win all these awards!
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I couldn't agree more with this award as well as the other awards that Estonia has won already. It was a great job this song overall.
Congrats to Estonia!
Why do we go to all the trouble of evaluating all entries when we might as well give all the awards straight to Estonia to begin with?
Estonia deserves all these awards! My faith in the esctoday.com readers is partially back.
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