February 4th-7th 2025
Fanny Hensel-Hall

The 6th Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition, which has been dedicated to the creation of new piano literature for children and young people since 2010, is based at the Ludwig van Beethoven Department for Piano in Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The task is to write a piano work in a contemporary tonal language that is easily realizable for piano lessons and thus provides young players with adequate artistic access to the music of the present.

What is special about this competition is its high standard of transparency as well as its unusual format. The international jury, this time consisting of Annesley Black, Michael Jarrell, Isabel Mundry, Miroslav Srnka and Marco Stroppa, discussed publicly the compositions nominated for the final round, which has been performed by students of the Ludwig van Beethoven Department of the mdw. The identities of the prize winners have been only revealed after the jury's decision.

___Results:

The first prize was awarded to:
Damian Scholl (Germany): "Love Songs" für Klavier zu acht Händen

Two second prizes were awarded to:
João Ricardo (Portugal): "What does the wall say" for piano 4-hands
and
Raphael Vilani (Brazil): "like…"

The third prize was awarded to:
Sean Cedric Schumann (Germany): "six short pieces"

The jury also made a recommendation for:
Sang hyun Hong (South Korea): "Sechs Erinnerungen"