podcast 63-Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler

Composer Conversations with Daniel Vezza

Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler is a German composer who is currently based in Berlin. He studied composition at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann, and at the Music Academy Prague with Marek Kopelent. He also studied architecture, musicology and history of art at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2006 he received a scholarship of the Cité International des Arts from the Senate of Berlin, and in 2007 he was been awarded a scholarship for the Tschaikowsky Conservatory Moscow by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). You can listen to more of his music at www.elikowskiwinkler.blogspot.de.

In out conversation we talk about the Sorbian culture he comes from, why he started composing, and his connection to politics and music.