13th international competition

Prize winners

The Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize was awarded for the thirteenth time this year by the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg.

The ensembles for which the competition is organised change from year to year. In this way, a continuously growing repertoire of compositions of medium difficulty is created, which brings together pupils, students and amateurs from different styles to play together.

The 13th Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize was awarded for compositions for wind ensembles. 55 works from 14 countries were submitted. The jury (Siegrid Ernst, Violeta Dinescu, Christoph Keller, Peter Vollhardt and Michael Searby) decided to honour the following compositions:

1st prize: Takahiro Sakuma (Sendai, Miyagi/Japan) for Shining Paraná

2nd prize: Dominik Dieterle (Mannheim) for MA

The 3rd prize is shared and goes to:

Veronika Ágnes Fráncsik (Budapest/Berlin) for Cinemaniera and to

Jona Kümper (Bochum) for Listen to the music playing in your head

The Young Talent Award goes to Hans-Henning Ginzel (*1988) for the compositions

2², Dos Àngulos de San Sebastian and Atemlos

The following works also received an award:

Penta erdosain by Mariano Rocca

"Hosanna" by Elena Samarina

"... walk by night ..."by Rainer Pezolt

Black and white gold silver grey by Markus Muschenich

Melogestalten eines Stratums by Maxim Selujanow

"First man must live, then his honour can be protected" - Musical appeal in memory of Carl von Ossietzky by Michael Wahlmüller

Book of Changes by Hauke Piper

Aviation II by Noriko Kawakami

Sound poem by Noriko Kawakami

Four Shadows by Eres Holz

Short suite for wind orchestra by Michail Safronov

Sax for four by Ursula Erhart-Schwertmann