Eine Stimme steht im Dunkel...*
hmdw-Composition Contest 2022/2023 & Concert
*The title of the project refers to the poem “Die Stimme aus dem Dunkel” von Elsabeth Meinhard (1887-1927).
A project initiated by Tanja Elisa Glinsner and Filip Pinczewski, hmdw Department for Equality and Diversity. Conception and implementation in cooperation with the staff unit Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (GGD).
The project aims to:
- to make the artistic work of women visible,
- an examination of poems by female poets in a composition competition, and
- musical works by female composers will be presented and included in the repertoire of students.
The survey "Diversity in the repertoire of mdw students", which was already conducted in 2021, showed that although the names of female composers are already known, the works are still not part of the standard repertoire, both in concert halls and during the training of musicians.
Lied-Composition Contest 2022/2023
Pieces for voice(s) (solo to quartet) and piano on selected poems by women poets of the 20th century are to be submitted.
The goal is to make the names and works of women poets visible and thereby give them a voice.
The competition rules are published here.
Concert & Announcement of the competition
Fr June 16th, 2023 | 7.00 pm
Franz Liszt-Saal, mdw
Lothringerstraße 18
1030 Vienna
free entrance
This final concert is preceded by a long project history: the announcement of a composition competition for the setting on music of selected poems by female lyricists makes the artistic work of female artists audible and visible.
Last year, as hmdw's contribution to Vienna Pride with the same title "Eine Stimme steht im Dunkel...*", this composition competition was announced and an ambitious concert was performed with pieces by female composers that may make a lasting impression on the mdw's program repertoire. The goal of the activities of the hmdw Department for Equality and Diversity - formerly the hmdw Department for Women's Policy and Queer -, has always been to contribute to Vienna Pride with an event of its own.
The title of the competition as well as the final concert "Eine Stimme steht im Dunkel..." refers to the poem "Die Stimme aus dem Dunkel" by Elsabeth Meinhard (1887-1927). From the numerous submissions, three works were awarded, which will be premiered at this final concert and mark the closing of the project.
Concert & Announcement of the competition
Fr June 3rd, 2022 | 7.00 pm
Joseph Haydn Hall, mdw
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
free entrance
As part of this concert, the song composition competition "Eine Stimme steht im Dunkel" will be announced.
In addition to the premiere of the commissioned work by Rojin Sharafi, in which texts by Elisabeth Meinhard, Bess Brenck-Kalischer, Nell Walden, Sylvia von Harden and Else Lasker-Schüler are electroacoustically processed, the programme includes works by female composers from various eras: Grażyna Bacewicz, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Mel Bonis, Nazife Aral-Güran, Kaija Saariaho, Clara Schumann, Alice Mary Smith, Ethel Smyth, Lilly Zhang-Sowa.
The program was compiled and rehearsed together with mdw students participating in the Open Rehearsal Spaces.
