Aigerim Seilova is a Hamburg-based composer working in orchestral writing, contemporary chamber music, and music theatre. Her music is shaped by an interest in energy, resonance, and physical motion in sound, resulting in precise, dynamic textures and a strong sense of instrumental color. Alongside acoustic composition, she develops works for ensemble and staged formats that engage with electronics and media as integrated musical elements, extending the musical space without shifting the focus away from the score.

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Her compositions have been described as marked by an uncompromisingly modern language and extraordinary sound intensity, demanding the audience’s full attention (Neue Musikzeitung). Seilova’s music has been performed and commissioned internationally by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Badische Staatskapelle, Kazakh Philharmonie Orchestra, Philharmonie der Nationen, Israel Sinfonietta, Schallfeld Ensemble, Amaryllis Quartet, and JACK Quartet. Conductors including Yoel Gamzou, Fedor Lednev, Ken-David Masur, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya have presented her work in concert contexts worldwide.

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Seilova’s works have been featured at festivals such as Chelsea Music Festival, Kunstfest Weimar, Schwetzinger Mozartfest, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Weimarer Frühjahrstage, aDevantgarde-Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. In 2023, her music theatre piece Ich, Elektra premiered in Frankfurt with Ensemble Modern, supported by the Deutsche Bank Foundation as part of her two-year scholarship from Akademie Musiktheater Heute.

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Born in Astana, she studied composition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and later continued her studies in Hamburg at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where she is currently completing a doctorate in artistic research. Her artistic development has been further supported through scholarships from the DAAD, ProExzellenzia, and the Zukunftsstipendium des Landesmusikrates Hamburg (Hamburg State Music Council), as well as through her participation as a Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston Symphony Orchestra within the Leonard Bernstein Fellowships.

 

In 2019, she received the Hindemith Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.​

Since 2021, Seilova has served as deputy chair of the Hamburg Branch of the German Composers’ Association (DKV LV Hamburg).