Special Prize. at Landeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert 2025

Salome Seidenberg was born in Berlin in 2013 and grew up in a musical family. After attending Carl Orff Elementary School, she has been attending the Evangelical Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster since 2024, where she is an active member of the Klosterblech ensemble. She has been playing the piano since the age of six, was in Blaga Kalojanova’s piano class, and now takes piano lessons with Uli Naudé and horn lessons with Angelika Goldammer at municipal music schools. She successfully participated in the duo category at this year’s Jugend Musiziert competition: She won first prizes in both the regional and state competitions and a special prize from the Carl Bechstein Foundation. Salome is an avid reader and is also interested in drawing/painting and foreign languages. She regularly performs in seasonal performances with her ballet group and plays tennis at the SCC Berlin club.

Flora Schirmer (born 2014) received her first piano lessons at the age of 6 and is a student in Wiebke tom Dieck’s class at the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Music School. At the age of 8, she also began playing the French horn and is taught by Heidi Wessel-Maier. Flora is a member of the horn quartet “Die Nashörner” and plays in the orchestra “Junge Sinfonietta” at the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Music School. She never misses an opportunity to play chamber music and loves music workshops of all kinds. Since summer 2024, she has been playing in a piano-horn duo with Salome Seidenberg—with the unique feature that both of them also switch instruments. Together, they recently won first prize (24 points) at the Landeswettbewerb Jugend Musiziert in Berlin.

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