5. Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition 2022
The 5th Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition took place from 1 - 4 February 2022. The aim of the competition is the creation and dissemination of new piano works for children or young people.
From 160 pieces submitted from 46 countries, a distinguished jury nominated the pieces for the final, which were performed by students by students of the Ludwig van Beethoven Department of Piano in Music Education.
Prize Winners
1. Prize: Patrick Thomas Schäfer (Germany)
for his work "Creatures"
2. Prize: Adrian Mocanu (Ukraine)
for his work "La piccola fiammiferaia"
3. Prize: Biin Jin (South Korea)
for her work "Pendule"
3. Prize: Óscar Prados (Spain)
for his work "Interludes"
Commendation: In-Gi Kim (South Korea)
for his work "Qualia"
Commendation: Karlo Margetić (New Zealand)
for his work "In all directions"
Commendation: Luis Alberto Tenaglia (Argentina)
for his work "Los días antes del Tiempo II"
Commendation: Marc Vogler (Germany)
for his work "Organum"
Further informationen on the competition websites.
Here you can find a video recording of the competition in the mdwMediathek.
Patrick Thomas Schäfer
Creatures
- I. The creatures we fear under our beds
- II. The creatures you don't have to run away from
- III. The creatures to which some people pray to
- IV. The poor creatures
- V. The creatures with hard shell and soft core
Lavenie Natalie Steger
Adrian Mocanu
La piccola fiammiferaia
Xiang Zuo
Biin Jin
Pendule
Julia Charlotte Alton
Óscar Prados
Interludes for piano (two, three and four players)
- I. Little laced lightnings (four players)
- II. Waving together (two players)
- III. Cantor and the Kantor (two players)
- IV. Twin paths (three players)
- V. Incantation to cross a chasm (two players)
- VI. Zero-sum (two players)
- VII. Chorale of silk in four colours (four players)
Isabella Brunbauer, Supisara Kaseamluck, Seyedreza Mojtabavi, Heidrun Wurm
In-Gi Kim
Qualia
Eliza Agajeva
Karlo Margetić
In all directions
- I. Lattice (Up/Down)
- II. Earth and Stars (Left/Right)
- III. Labyrinth (Backwards/Forwards)
- IV. Anchor (Still)
- V. Epilogue (Entropy)
Benedikt Holter
Luis Alberto Tenaglia
Los días antes del Tiempo II
Franziska Musil
Marc Vogler
Organum
Aida Akhmetova
Participants
Audio engineer: Benedikt Roß
