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Composition Award of the City of Stuttgart

The city of Stuttgart has offered an annual composition prize since 1955. The aim of the competition is to promote female and male composers and to pave the way for contemporary music into the public consciousness.

The annual composition prize awarded by the state capital Stuttgart is an important recognition on a national level.

Winners of the 70th Composition Prize 2025 - Georgia Koumará, Elnaz Seyedi and Ying Wang honored

The 70th Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart 2025 goes to Georgia Koumará, Elnaz Seyedi and Ying Wang. The jury decided to once again award three prizes of equal value. They are endowed with 6,500 euros each.

The winners are Georgia Koumará for “I wonder if I should start accessing pleasure a whole lot” for amplified ensemble and electronics from 2022, Elnaz Seyedi for “absolute snow” for clarinet, horn and cello from 2021 and Ying Wang for “SCHMUTZ” for solo violin and ensembles from 2019. The prize-winning compositions will be performed as part of the award ceremony at the ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart in February 2026.

112 participants submitted a total of 209 works for the 70th Composition Prize 2025. Members of the jury were Prof. Luxa Martin Schüttler, representative of the Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts, Martina Seeber, representative of Südwestrundfunk, Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, composer, Leopold Hurt, composer, Prof. Svetlana Maraš, composer and sound artist, Dirk Wieschollek, musicologist, and Astrid Schmeling, flutist. The panel was chaired by Marc Gegenfurtner, Head of the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart.

Cultural Office

Katharina Löthe

Subject specialist music

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