Busoni Composition Prize
The Busoni Composition Prize was donated by Aribert Reimann in 1988 and is awarded every two to three years to young composers not yet known to the public. The award, amounting to 6,000 Euros, enables the Akademie der Künste to promote young compositional talent. In addition, a prize in the value of 2,500 Euros has been awarded since 1992 to composers still undergoing training. The laureates are determined by a members’ jury.
Award ceremony 2024: Cornelius Schwehr, juror and member of the Music Section, Carola Bauckholt, Director of the Music Section, Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga, laureate of the Busoni Composition Prize, Lauren Siess, laureate of the Busoni Sponsorship Award and Akademie President Manos Tsangaris (from left to right)
Award ceremony 2024: Lauren Siess, laureate of the Busoni Sponsorship Award and Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga, laureate of the Busoni Composition Prize
Ludger Brümmer, juror and Academy member of the Music section; Igor Santos, laureate of the Busoni Composition Prize 2021; Elias Jurgschat, laureate of the Busoni Sponsorship Award 2021; Nele Hertling, Director of the Performance Arts Section (from left to right)
Hovik Sardaryan, laureate of the Busoni Sponsorship Award 2019; Aribert Reimann, founder of the Busoni Composition Prize; Hanna Eimermacher, laureate of the Busoni Composition Prize 2019; Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Deputy Director of the Music Section (from left to right)
Benjamin Scheuer, laureate of the Busoni Composition Prize 2017
Óscar Escudero, winner of the 2017 Busoni Sponsorship Award
Laureates
1988 Stefan Carow
1990 Ludger Brümmer
1992 Jörg Birkenkötter
1994 Isabel Mundry
1996 Pierluigi Billone
1999 Orm Finnendahl
2002 Enno Poppe
2005 Michael Hirsch
2008 Eun-Hwa Cho
2011 Michael Pelzel
2013 Sarah Nemtsov
2015 Ashley Fure
2017 Benjamin Scheuer
2019 Hanna Eimermacher
2021 Igor Santos
2024 Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga
Sponsorship Award
1992 Alexander Stankovski
1994 Rebecca Saunders
1996 Sebastian Stier
1999 Kilian Schwoon
2002 Daniel Smutny
2005 Philipp Blume
2008 Annesley Black
2011 Tristan Brookes
2013 Lisa Streich
2015 Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari
2017 Óscar Escudero
2019 Hovik Sardaryan
2021 Elias Jurgschat
2024 Lauren Siess