Composer Aigerim Seilova receives the Hindemith Prize 2019

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The Kazakh composer Aigerim Seilova, an alumna of Prof. Georg Hajdu's composition class, breaks through listening habits with her music and provides new food for thought. She receives the 2019 Hindemith Prize, endowed with 20,000 euros.

In addition Dr. Christian KuhntDirector of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Chairman of the Hindemith Prize jury: "Aigerim Seilova impresses with a high level of professionalism in her compositional craft and an original tonal language that combines eruptive tension and calm flow in a fascinating way. She has successfully tried out different styles. In doing so, she has developed her own signature style that breaks new ground without denying her musical roots."

The Hindemith Prize will be awarded for the 30th time in 2019 and will be presented by Schleswig-Holstein's Minister of Culture Karin Prien on August 26 as part of a prizewinners' concert. The program includes works not only by Seilova, but also by Paul Hindemith, as well as the world premiere of a work commissioned for the SHMF by 2018 Hindemith Prize winner Clara Iannotta.

The jury consists of Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckhardt (Fondation Hindemith), the Minister of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein Karin Prien, Dr. Christian Kuhnt (SHMF), Prof. Elmar Lampson (Gerhard Trede Foundation and HfMT Hamburg), Silvia Neumann (Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media), Prof. Rico Gubler (Lübeck University of Music) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hermann Rauhe (Franz Wirth Memorial Foundation).

Biography
Aigerim Seilova from Kazakhstan was born in 1987. She began her musical education at the age of five with classical piano lessons. At the age of seven, she composed a children's opera, which was performed. After completing her piano studies at national and international music academies, she studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Leonid Bobylev and Yuri Kasparov. She continued her studies with Georg Hajdu at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. Seilova composes for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles and orchestra. Her works have been performed at festivals such as Spring in the Negev in Germany and Israel, next_generation 6.0 in Karlsruhe, Blurred Edges in Hamburg, Nauryz XXI in Kazakhstan and at the Festival of Contemporary Music in Russia. In 2016 she received a scholarship in composition at the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Aigerim Seilova lives in Hamburg. She is married and has one child.