Today we present the winner of the first contest:

Beginning - Julia Schönekäs

Julia Schönekäs (*1979) studied music education and composition at HfM Cologne with Krzysztof Meyer and York Höller. She took part in Darmstädter Ferienkurse and in masterclasses held by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Currently she is working as a music teacher in Detmold.

Her special interest is the mediation of New Music. She wrote several  essays on composition pedagogy which were published in periodicals like Musik & Bildung as well as MusikTexte. Julia Schönekäs is vice chairman of the Association for New Music in Ostwestfalen-Lippe.