Prizewinners’ concert for the 69th Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart

Sara Glojnarić: EVERYTHING, ALWAYS

for String Orchestra ^/15′

Laudation for Sara Glojnarić: Boglárka Pecze

Laudation for Anda Kryeziu: Samir Odeh-Tamimi

Anda Kryeziu: Infuse: Playtime

for Ensemble/^12′

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Greetings and Award Presentation: Marc Gegenfurtner

Laudation for Thomas Stiegler: Annesley Black

Thomas Stiegler: ich leihe mir bei Jürg Frey einen Kugelschreiber

Inferner Park 5 (6th String Quartet) ^/38′

Fabrik Quartet
Federico Ceppetelli, violin
Mishi Stern, violin
Jacobo Díaz Robledillo, viola
Elena Cappelletti, violoncello

echtzeitEnsemble of the STUDIO NEUE MUSIK of the HMDK Stuttgart

Seongwha Choi, oboe/Niklas Malcharczyk, bass clarinet/Tamara Kurkiewicz, percussion/Carter Muller, piano/Svetlana Riger, violin/Sophie Rauch, violin/Gökçe Duru Tatar, violin/Marie Thiele, violin/Delia Ramos Rodríguez, violin/Anna Gottschlich, violin/Grigore-Gabriel Raducanu, violin/Zihan Deng, violin/Hohoe Kaya, viola/Lilia Rubin, viola/Stefanie Tran Thu, viola/Beliz Güney, cello/Leïla Saurel, cello/Annika Möller, cello/Sebastian Triebener, cello/David Dominguez Vargas, double bass/David Cheema, double bass

Sound & sound direction assistance: Arian Ahmadnezhad

Conductor Christof M Löser

Broadcast on SWR Kultur JetztMusik on 8 April 2025, 9:00 pm

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.