Prize winners Fanny Hensel Composition Competition


Daniel Serrano Garcia to win composition award – audio recording available in media centre


Fanny Hensel Composition AwardPhoto: ©Marlene Fröhlich

f.l.t.r.: Nadja Kayali (Moderation, Ö1), Wolfgang Suppan (Department of Composition and Electroacoustics, mdw) Astrid Stäber (Jury), Charlotte Seither (Jury), Daniel Serrano Garcia (Prize winner), Ulrike Sych (Rector of the mdw), Tanja Elisa Glinsner (Prize winner), Andrea Sodomka (Jury), Johannes Maria Staud (Jury), Cornelie von Bismarck (Mendelssohn Society in Berlin), Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (Jury), Annegret Huber (Chairwoman of jury, mdw)

On 14 November 2015 prize winners of the anonymously conducted Fanny Hensel Composition Award of the mdw have been determined. Now also the audio recording of the prize winners' contributions are available on demand in our media centre.


Prize winners of the Fanny Hensel Composition Competition


The Fanny Hensel Composition Award has been announced by the mdw for students of all Austrian music universities for the first time in 2014. At the first round concepts and drafts due to the competition task Experimental Composing between the Arts have been submitted. The results were presented publicly for the first time at the closing concert.

Here are the prize winners of the competition:

  • 1st Place: Daniel Serrano Garcia with the composition "Mobile for Wood Wind Quintet"
    Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in B, Horn in f, Bassoon
     
  • 2nd Place: Tanja Elisa Glinsner with the composition "GrundRISS. 100 aqueous principles"
    Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet in B, Violin, Cello, Piano


Audio recording and background


Please find the audio recording of the prize winners' contributions in our media centre.
Further information about the project as well as about former dates of this event series can be found on the website of the organising Administrative Department of Equalisation, Gender Studies & Diversity.


About the project "Raum für Fanny Hensel" (Space for Fanny Hensel)


On 14 November 1805 a girl was born in Hamburg, Germany, whose name is publicly known as Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn. This has never been her name though. After her baptism Fanny Zippora Mendelssohn became Fanny Cäcilia Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Following the marriage with the Prussian court painter Wilhelm Hensel she took his surname as of 1829.

The 210. birthday of the composer on 14 November 2015 marks the ending of a one-year event series, which was started at the 209. birthday of the composer. The motto "Raum für Fanny Hensel" (Space for Fanny Hensel) refers to the name of mdw's Fanny Hensel Concert Hall; On the other hand the motto highlights the collective music making, which creates space of cultural acting.

After several moderated concerts presenting works of the composer the composition competition marks the ending of the event series. Our professors and students produced the CD "Szenen einer Ehe" (Scenes of a marriage), which presents a selection of Fanny Hensel's works, for the first time performed according to the vision of their composer.

Watch music researcher Annegret Huber talking about the project (subtitled in English):

To the YouTube channel of the mdw