On Saturday, 18 July, the University of Oldenburg will award this year's Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize to the best of the more than 200 piano compositions submitted. The award ceremony will be accompanied by a concert in which music students will première the prize-winning compositions - as well as a number of other works that were honoured in the competition.
They have been working intensively on the pieces during the summer semester under the direction of pianist Werner Barho. The concert will begin at 6.00 pm in the university auditorium (Haarentor campus, building A11, Ammerländer Heerstraße 69).
Several of the previously announced prize winners will receive the award in person. These include the Bochum composer Jona Kümper, who will receive the 1st prize of 1000 euros for his composition "Musica viva - three variations for piano".
The recipient of the "Special Youth Prize", nine-year-old Myrsini Kagarlis from Greece, will also be present. She impressed the five-member international jury, headed by university lecturer and composer Prof. Violeta Dinescu, with her work "The Dance of Colours".
In total, the 14th Carl von Ossietzky Composition Competition - this time for piano - received entries from more than 40 countries. The prize money is provided by the Oldenburg University Society (UGO).
The university awards the composition prize annually in memory of its namesake. The 15th competition is for voice with oboe, bassoon, viola, cello and piano - in instrumentation ranging from duo to sextet.
The award ceremony on 18 July also marks the end of this semester's composer colloquium "Music of our time".
