Hummel-Minute for two pianos (2000)

World premiere: 4 December 2000, Würzburg, University of Music
Sebastian Bernhard | Thorsten Lindner

Ines Lütge completed her composition studies at the Würzburg University of Music under Prof. Heinz Winbeck. During this time, she was a scholarship holder at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris. She has received composition commissions from, amongst others, the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin, Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin (ROC) and the Kassel Music Festival. In 1999, she was awarded first prize in the competition held to mark the Glasfestspiele in the Bavarian Forest for her ensemble piece Prisma . In 2002, her orchestral piece Die Tage fallen received its world premiere as part of the Saarbrücken Composers’ Workshop. In 2018, she was awarded first prize in the ‘Florence String Quartet calls for Scores’ competition; in 2022, she received the Bavarian Composition Prize for the ‘A New Song – Via-nova’ competition and first prize in the Siegburg Composition Competition for ‘Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine’.