Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler studied composition with Friedrich Goldmann in Berlin, Marek Kopelent in Prague and Vladimir Tarnopolski in Moscow. Additional studies of musicology, history of art and architecture in Berlin. He mainly wrote chamber music for which he received several prizes and awards. Scholarships led him among other places to Moscow and Paris.
Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler recieved the 2015 Cišinski-Förderpreis from the Foundation for the Sorbish Folk.
2013 Winner of the Berliner Senats scholarship in the German Study-Center in Venice, Italy.
2011 Scholarship for Composers by the City of Berliner
2009 Scholar in the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop
2008 NaFöG – Scholarship by the University of Arts Berlin
2008 Scholar of the Ministry of Science and Culture of Brandenburg in the “Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf”
2007 DAAD-Scholar in the class of Vladimir Tarnopolski in Moscow
2006 Scholar of the City of Berlin in the Cité International des Arts Paris
