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A competition by Sonarloft – Supported by Stiftung am Grunewald
Your music. Your ideas. Your future.
The Berlin Composition Prize 2025 (Piano Trio) is looking for bold voices, fresh sounds, and new musical ideas. We want to hear music that crosses boundaries – stylistically, culturally, emotionally. If you compose because you have to – this is for you.
Berlin invites you. No boxes. No limitations. Just your art.
Main prize: 5,000 EUR
world premiere at the SONARLOFT concert at Kühlhaus Berlin
Two development prizes: 1,000 EUR each
Certificate and personal support
Access to the SONARLOFT network – a creative community
You are 35 or younger (cut-off date: August 31, 2025)
You compose – classical, experimental, electroacoustic, jazz, or genre-free
You’ve written a piece for piano trio (violin, cello, piano) that has not been performed or published
You want your music to be professionally premiered in Berlin
The FULL SCORE (as PDF) of your work (10–12 min.)
Violin and Violoncello Part of your work
(as a joined PDF)A Short Bio (max. 1 page)
Application Fee: 50 EUR
Deadline: 31 August 2025
Jury-Deliberation: September 2025
Winner Announcement: 30 September 2025
Live-Concert & Award Ceremony: 10 October 2025 at Kühlhaus Berlin
An international jury of composers, musicians and artists will listen, read and discuss openly and attentively. The jury includes the artistic directors Konstantin Manaev (violoncello), Wojciech Garbowski (violin), Philipp Scheucher (piano) and, as an honorary member, the Austrian composer Johanna Doderer. They will evaluate:
Instrumental writing
Originality and boldness of concept
Form, sound, dramaturgy
Your biography is not part of the evaluation. The evaluation will be anonymous.
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