Gustav Mahler composition competition concert and prize ceremony Hungary, Serbia, Czechia: it is no coincidence that the countries from where the composers of this concert hail, are reminiscent of an old musikprotokoll tradition from the early seventies. Composer Marko Nikodijevic, for example featured at the event with a commissioned composition almost ten years ago. He now lives in Germany. This year he has been invited to perform a new piece, a kind of Hommage à Liszt for a large orchestra. Canada and Switzerland, two other countries of origin of the composers, indicate that part of this concert has been taken from the jury’s decision of the international Gustav Mahler composition competition in 2010, in which the Vienna ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra also took part.   Prize-winning entries in the Gustav Mahler composition competition:
David Lukáš (CZ) Des cauchemars et des rêves, two dreams from Symphonie No. 1 UA
Rita Ueda (CAN) as the snowflakes return to the sky UA
David Philip Hefti (CH) Wendepunkt   Prize-winning piece in “Neue Musik Forum”, Budapest:

Balázs Horváth (H) Grotesk Faust ÖE
Marko Nikodijevic (SRB/D) cvetić, kućica... / la lugubre gondola. funeral music for orchestra after franz liszt ÖE