Madli Marje Gildemann has composed music primarily for large chamber groups and focused on creating darker and droning soundscapes. The main focus of her creative work is the trans-composition of different airplanes and helicopters (for the cycle The Vessels of War) where the author reflects these vehicles as mythological creatures and searches for alternatives to presenting and reviving local traditions. Her first piece in 2017-2018 was AH-64 APACHE/Sumiseja, sumiseja… (LHV Special Prize), the next part of the cycle was Pistriku sügiskarje (A Hawk’s Autumnal Shriek), which premiered in 2020 in Zurich. Madli Marje Sink’s work Sõjaveteran Hugo Gulbrandt (War Veteran Hugo Gulbrandt) represented Estonia at the 2013 Young Composers’ Rostrum and in 2017, she won second place at the Young Composers’ Competition in Estonia. Madli Marje Gildemann has received many awards: 2nd place at the International Rostrum of Composers in Palermo, Sicily, in the under-30 category with the piece “Transpiration” (2022); ISCM Young Composer Award in South Africa for the piece “Osmosis” (2023); LHV New Composition Au-tasu Award 2024 for “Nocturnal Migrants” (2024).
