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      Competition for Composers

      Jury makes the first awards

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      Zwei Männer neben einem historischen Porträt © Hannes Malte Mahler

      JIA Guoping, Professor am Chinesischen Nationalkonservatorium Peking und Künstlerischer Leiter des Con Tempo Ensemble Beijing (links) und Stephan Meier (Künstlerischer Leiter Musik für heute e.V.)

      By 1 March 2016 there had been 111 responses from all over the world to the international competition for composers, ‘Leibniz’s Harmonies’.

      Entries in the first three categories reached the jury from Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, England, France, Greece, Iran, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, the USA and Uzbekistan. All entries, submitted anonymously, took quotations from the polymath on musical harmony and its numerical expression as their starting point. The internationally constituted jury has selected the first prizewinning entries, carrying a total prize money of over 30,000 €.

      Premiere concert at the Orangery in Hannover’s Herrenhausen Gardens

      The first prizewinners’ concerts will be given in Hannover, the city where Leibniz did much of his work – in the Herrenhausen Gardens, at his last resting place the Neustädter Court and City Church, and at the NDR state broadcasting house, followed by performances in Beijing and his birthplace, Leipzig. Winners from Hong Kong, Beijing, Chengdu, Brookline, Ringwood, Vienna, Paris and others will be presented at the premiere concert on 30 June 2016 at the Orangery in Hannover’s Herrenhausen Gardens.

      'Orchestra’ category

      Entries may still be submitted in the ‘Orchestra’ category; deadline is 21 June 2016. You'll find more information here: www.LeibnizHarmonien.de

      Jury

      Members of the jury are

      • Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne
      • Prof. Jia Guoping, Central Conservatory, Beijing
      • Prof. Guo Wenjing, Central Conservatory, Beijing
      • Prof. Dr. Oliver Schneller, Eastman School of Music, Rochester
      • Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenecker, Université Paris Diderot
      • Prof. José M. Sanchez - Verdú, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (Saragossa)/Robert-Schumann-Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf
      • Stefan Fricke, editor, new music/sound art at hr2-kultur
      • Matthias Ilkenhans, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover

      Artistic director is Stephan Meier, Musik für heute e.V.