The Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize was announced this year for the fifteenth time 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 15th Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize was announced for compositions for voice with oboe/bassoon/viola/cello/piano (in instrumentation ranging from duo to sextet). 35 works from 7 countries were submitted. The jury (Siegrid Ernst, Violeta Dinescu, Gertraude Spier, Christoph Keller and Michael Searby) has decided to award prizes to the following compositions:

1st prize - 1,000 euros

2nd prize - 700 euros

3rd prize - 500 euros

Sponsorship prize - 300 euros

1st prize: Jens-Uwe Günther (Weimar)

The present is my battlefield...

for mezzo-soprano, oboe, viola, cello and piano

2nd prize: Andreas Seemer-Koeper (Dortmund)

Four Sincere I Songs

for voice, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

3rd prize: C. René Hirschfeld (Berlin)

Out of Cage

for voice and prepared piano or voice, oboe and cello

Thesponsorship award goes to Susanne Hardt (Dresden) (*1993)

Reductio

Critique in four movements for voice, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

The following works also receive an award:

Remembrance

for mezzo-soprano and five instruments

by Albrecht Beckert (Künzelsau)

The Prisoner

for baritone, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Michael Wahlmüller (Vienna)

Nocturne

Sextet for soprano, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Daniela Pardini (Massa/Italy)

After the song

for soprano, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Thorsten Sense (Berlin)

Verowor verses without words

for voice, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Maxim Seloujanov (Moscow/Vienna)

Birds trilling in the valley

for soprano, viola and piano

by Ling-Hsuan Huang (Taiwan/Berlin)

Birds (vol. IV)

for soprano and cello

by Faudra Chafta Douka (Greece/Berlin)

The following compositions will be included in the

repertoire of the Carl von Ossietzky Composition Competition:

Resurrection

for voice and piano

by Elena Samarina (Ekaterinburg/Russia)

Autumn

for voice, cello and piano

by Cleopatra Valentina Perepelita (Romania/Cologne)

Agnus Dei

for female voice, oboe, viola and piano

and

7 Haikai

for soprano, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Jona Kümper (Bochum)

The scent of roses

for mezzo-soprano, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Dietmar Sihn (Wurmberg)

A little Girl lost

for soprano, oboe and piano

by Matteo Zanetti (Verona/Italy)

Adagio. Autumn (Autum's Adagio)

for low voice, oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano

by Ulrich Steckel (Hude)

The award ceremony and the performance of selected compositions will take place at the beginning of June 2016 in the auditorium of the University of Oldenburg. The exact date is yet to be announced

The Carl von Ossietzky Composition Competition for Guitar will be announced next year.