Busoni-Kompositionspreis | Preisverleihung und Konzert

In the organizer's words:

Every two years since 1988, the Akademie der Künste has awarded the Busoni Composition Prize to young composers for particularly high-quality and innovative compositional approaches. In 2024, these are the Chilean composer Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga (Busoni Composition Prize) and the American violist and composer Lauren Siess (Sponsorship Prize).

In a world premiere, Siess explores the logic of an imaginary ecosystem with the sounds of the electric guitar. In his heterogeneous compositions, Soto strives to overcome the impossibility of conceptualizing the new.

In memory of the founder of the prize, composer and Academy member Aribert Reimann, who died in 2024, his early powerful and sonorous piano composition Spectren will be performed. Promoting young composers was always important to Reimann, as was keeping the work of Ferruccio Busoni, the prize's namesake, alive through a performance as part of the concert.

With Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga (prizewinner), Lauren Siess (sponsorship prizewinner)

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris

Laudations: Chaya Czernowin, Hanna Hartman, Cornelius Schwehr

Concert with works by the prizewinners and by Ferruccio Busoni & Aribert Reimann

With ensemble mosaik, Alexey Potapov, Magnus Lodgaard (conductor)

In German language