Uzbek woman wins European Composer Award
Aziza Sadikova from Uzbekistan was awarded the 2014 European Composer Prize at the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin. The work "Enallagai" by Swiss composer Stefan Wirth also received its German premiere at the festival.
The European Composer Prize, endowed with 5000 euros, is awarded annually by the Governing Mayor of the City of Berlin for the best premiere or German premiere at the Young Euro Classic Festival. Aziza Sadikova received it for her work Letter Shards received.
The composer cites the diary of Daniil Charms, a Russian avant-garde writer of the 1930s, in which he recorded emotional despair and erotic desires, as the inspiration for her work. The physical process of writing a diary is reproduced in the composition through the use of a typewriter and corresponding orchestral effects, among other things.
The jury justified its choice with the diversity of musical and dramatic means of expression, which "can be heard as tones, sounds and words like a prayer from a distant world, ghostly and yet intensely disruptive". Born in 1978, Aziza Sadikova studied at the Tashkent State Conservatory, the Birmingham Conservatory and Trinity College of Music in London. Her music has been performed at the Salzburg Aspekte Festival, Wien Modern and the Southbank Festival in London, among others.
As part of Young Euro Classics, the German premiere of Enallagai by the Swiss composer Stefan Wirth. The "Festival of the World's Best Youth Orchestras" in Berlin attracted a total of 23,500 visitors.
