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Marianna Liik was awarded the 2nd prize at the international rostrum for composers


Marianna Liik
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Last week, the student of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre – Marianna Liik – was awarded the 2nd prize at the International Rostrum for Composers in Prague. The electronic composition Mets (Forest) got the prize in the category of composers under 30, which winner was electronic work So Very Strange by Úlfur Hansson from Iceland. The winner of the main category was Polish composer Agata Zubel with her work Not I.

Marianna Liik (1992) began her composition studies in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2011 as a student of Helena Tulve. Currently she is continuing her electro-acoustic composition studies with Margo Kõlar and Malle Maltis. Mets (2012/2013) is an electronic composition that uses song of the grasshopper, human voice and recordings of two choral pieces.

 

 

The aim of the Rostrum is to introduce and disseminate works of contemporary music via national radio stations all around the globe. Most outstanding compositions will be broadcasted by more than thirty radio stations on different continents. This year, Rostrum took place for the 60th time and gathered representatives from 30 national radio networks from four continents, which presented 51 works.

Compositions by Estonian composers have been presented at the Rostrum since 1994, often with good results. In 2004, Helena Tulve’s orchestra work Sula was voted the most remarkable recording in the general category. In the category of young composers, three of Estonian representatives have come first – Mari Vihmand (1996), Jüri Reinvere (2000) and Ülo Krigul (2007).

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