Peter Michael von der Nahmer

Selected Awards and Recognition

• "SU-CASA Residency" Queens Council on the Arts, New York
• "Honorable Mention" "New World Composition Challenge", New York Philharmonic with the piano piece "From Here to There"
• American Composers Forum McKnight Visiting Composer Residency
• The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation Grant for the commission of the dance piece "Reflections" by FJK DANCE, New York
• Conference Funding Grant, New York University
• CAGE 100 - Party Pieces Project with performances in New York and Leipzig
• California International Theatre Auswahl 2011 selection with the opera "El Canguro"
• Kinder zum Olymp!-Award for the European school project MP3-DNA in collaboration with Mehr Musik!
• Berlin Opera Award Neuköllner Oper for "20 Minuten"
• Scholarship at the OpenForum, the International Festival for alternative Music Theater “OpenOp 2010”, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin
• Herrenhaus Edenkoben Residency
• 1st and special prize at ISME-IVME 2nd International Composition Contest 2008 for "NO ATTETÜDE!"
• Guest composer Bar Harbor Music Festival
• 2. Prize Siegburger Kompositionswettbewerb with "Musical Fairytales for Children"
• Winner “Renée B. Fisher Composer Award” with "Hip Hop for piano"
• ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop
• Winner C. Keith Birkenfeld Composition Competition with Powerwalk
• American Composers Forum Jerome Foundation Grant
• American Composers Forum Encore Grant
• Winner Masterworks Prize with "The Monk and the Fish"
• Maestro's Circle and Susan and Ford Schuman Award, Aspen Music Festival and School
• Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, composition Scholarship for 14th Annual O’Neill Puppetry Conference
• Society for New Music, Dr. J. Howland Auchinloss Prize with "The Monk and the Fish"

  Compositions

• "Zwischen Wahn und Wirklichkeit"
• "20 Minuten"
• Youth opera "Klangwandler"
• "El Canguro"
• "The Cookies Call – A Tragic Tragedy"
• "Ho! Ho! Ho!"
• Electropera "Tightrope"

• "Lupus Albus"
• "The Ultimate Musical"
• "Von Zeyt zu Zeit"
• "A Bump in the Road"
• Musical drama "Esther"
• "Welcome to Hell"

• "Gottesschwingungen"
• "Multitudes"
• "Alexa the Dyslexic Angel"
• "Umbra Lux"
• "Schweigende Unendlichkeit"

• "Jedermann"
• "Das Karusell"
• "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"

• 2015: "Talking City"
• 2017: "NIA WA JA SHU"

• "SPAM"
• "Blue Hum"

• Darkness of Water
• Circuit
• Passing-Over
• Mashrabiya
• Psychogramm
• Red Tide
• Reflections

• Ars Amatoria,
• And I saw...
• Beyond Forever,
• Missa Brevis
• Above the Sky

• Sphären
• Atem
• Dvandva
• Sax’eon
• The Monk and the Fish
• Intome
• Trial ADN Error
• Hip Hop for piano
• Dance of the Fairies
• African Dream
• Rhythm Some Blues
• Witzelsucht
• No Attetüde!
• Anatomy of Rhythm
• Moving on...
• From Here to There
• Where is the Stillness

• Natura et Homo
• Mikrokosmos
• Persiflamia
• Angels
• Fanfare
• Powerwalk