Prizewinner concert

Sara Glojnarić: EVERYTHING, ALWAYS

for string orchestra

Thomas Stiegler: I borrow a biro from Jürg Frey

Inferner Park 5 (6th string quartet)

Anda Kryeziu: Infuse: Playtime

for ensemble

Fabrik Quartet

echtzeitEnsemble of the STUDIO NEUE MUSIK of the HMDK Stuttgart

Conductor Christof M Löser

A playfulness in which the identities of the instruments are detached from their idiom and exchanged with each other. They imitate each other’s characteristics and are physically connected to each other. In this way, the sound signal of certain instruments provokes other sound objects to jointly create a hybrid sound result.

(Anda Kryeziu)

The works of the three composers honoured by the jury in the current Composition Prize are aesthetically very diverse. Sara Glojnarić, the jury commented, ‘handles her artistic work humorously, sometimes self-ironically, and creates a hybrid (work) form that is forward-looking.’ Anda Kryeziu impressed with her ‘playfulness, in which the identities of the instruments are detached from their idiom. The intimacy and fragility of the sounds, which repeatedly try to break out, leave an enormous intensity that is hard to escape.’ Thomas Stiegler’s string quartet with accompanying comic, containing philosophical observations on the process of composing, drawing and medicine, traces a journey into surreal landscapes. ‘This music sounds modest, intelligent, imaginative, dreamy, playful, contemplative and inspires hope in the poetic potential of compositional practice.