Prizes, Scholarships, Jobs and Engagements

ACCORDION

2023

Mihail Cunetchi (class of Prof. C. Buder): 1st prize "Prix Accordéons-nous" in the classical category at the 5th International Competition "Accordéons-nous" in Mons (Belgium), 2nd prize at the 60th International Accordion Competition in Klingenthal and Prize of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD Prize) 2023

Daniel Roth (class of Prof. C. Buder): 1st prize in the category "Variety Senior" at the 5th International Competition "Accordéons-nous" in Mons (Belgium)


2022

Marius Staible and Daniel Roth (accordion, class of Prof. C. Buder): Franz Liszt Prize of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar for the accordion duo "con:trust"


2021

Marius Staible (Klasse Prof. C. Buder): 1st prize at the international accordion competition in Vilnius (Lithuania), 2nd prize in the category "Soloist" at the 58th international accordion competition in Klingenthal as well as the Hans und Eugenia Jütting Stiftung scholarship
 

2018

Neža Torkar (alumna, Prof. I. Koval): 1st prize at the international accordion competition in Pula (Croatia) in the category chamber music together with cellist Romana Fimbera as well as a 2nd prize at the international accordion competition in Klingenthal, in the category chamber music as well as a 1st prize and two special prizes at the international accordion competiton in Castelfidardo (Italy) in the category Ensemble Classic as "Duo Accellorandom" with cellist Romana Simbera


2017

Neža Torkar (Prof. I. Koval): 1st prize as well as special prize for the best interpretation of the compulsory piece "Tres Nocturnos" by Francisco Jose Dominguez at the "Arrasate Akkordeonwettbewerb" in Spain as well as 3rd prize at the 54. international accordion competition in Klingenthal in the category IV (soloists)

Daniel Roth (Prof. I. Koval): 1st prize in the category Young Musicians Competition at the international chamber music competition in Val Tidone (Italy) as Duo con:trust with Marius Staible as well as 3rd prize at the 54. international accordion competition in Klingenthal in the category V (chamber music) as Duo con:trust with Marius Staible

Marius Staible (Prof. C. Buder): 1st prize in the category Young Musicians Competition at the international chamber music competition in Val Tidone (Italy) as Duo con:trust with Daniel Roth as well as 3rd prize at the 54. international accordion competition in Klingenthal in the category V (chamber music) as Duo con:trust with Daniel Roth

CONDUCTING AND OPERA COACHING

2024

Konrad Bucher (Class of Prof. U. Vogel): Won audition as solo repetiteur at the Hagen Theatre (permanent position)

Anna Handler (Alumna Class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (2024-2026)

Marie Jacquot (Alumna class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra from the 2026/27 season

Seonggeun Kim (Class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 1st Prize at the 12th Conducting Competition of the Central German Universities of Music with the MDR Symphony Orchestra

Lea Ray (Class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Won selection conducting for funding by the "Forum Dirigieren" of the German Music Council, musical assistant for the opera ballad "Sleepless" by Péter Eötvös at the Chemnitz Theatre

Swann van Rechem (Class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 3rd prize at the 12th Conducting Competition of the Central German Music Academies with the MDR Symphony Orchestra
 

2023

Vitali Alekseenok (alumnus class Prof. N. Pasquet and Prof. E. Wycik): Chief Conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf/Duisburg) as of the 2024/25 season

Leonie Bulenda (class of Prof. U. Vogel): Solo repetiteur with conducting duties at the Theatre Erfurt (permanent position)

David Fernández Caravaca (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 1st prize at the conducting competition of the Jeunesse Musicale (Juventudes Musicales) of the Symphony Orchestra Castilla y León en Valladolid (Spain)

Martijn Dendievel (alumnus class Prof. N. Pasquet and Prof. E. Wycik): Principal Conductor of the Hof Symphony Orchestra from the 2024/25 season.

Roc Fargas i Castells (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Won selection conducting for the sponsorship by the "Forum Dirigieren" of the German Music Council 

Niklas Benjamin Hoffmann (Alumnus class Prof. N. Pasquet, Prof. E. Wycik & Prof. G. Kahlert): 1st prize and special prize of the Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the 8th International Conducting Competition "Lovro von Matačić" in Zagreb (Croatia).

Sebastian Ickstadt (class of Prof. H.-Chr. Steinhöfel): Contract as solo répétiteur at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau for the new production of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly"

Seonggeun Kim (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Won selection conducting for sponsorship by the "Forum Dirigieren" of the German Music Council

Tobias Meichsner (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 2nd Kapellmeister of the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Landestheater Salzburg starting with the season 2023/24

Giuseppe Mengoli (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 1st prize at the 7th Mahler Conducting Competition of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Clement Michelot (class of Prof. J. Puschbeck): 3rd prize at the conducting competition within the International Masterclass for Choral Conductors in Marktoberdorf, Germany

Claudio Novati (Alumnus class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 3rd prize at the international German Conducting Award

Maximilian Otto (Class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 2nd Kapellmeister of the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie at the Opera House Chemnitz

Friedrich Praetorius (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Kapellmeister of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra at the Chemnitz Opera House in the 2023/24 season and Kapellmeister and Assistant to the General Music Director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from August 2024, also Artistic Director of the "SommerMusikAkademie" Schloss Hundisburg and conductor of the associated International Academy Orchestra

Martin Rajna (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 1st Kapellmeister of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest 

Swann van Rechem (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Grand Prix, Audience Prize and Special Prize at the 58th International Conducting Competition in Besançon (France)

Julian Pontus Schirmer (Alumnus Class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): New Head of University Music at the Technical University of Dortmund

Nikolaas Schmeer (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Successful audition for the position of Artistic Director of the State Youth Choir Thuringia

Mauricio Sotelo-Romero (class Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Assistant to the General Music Director in the new production of Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" at the Chemnitz Opera House as well as winning selection conducting for funding by the "Forum Dirigieren" of the German Music Council
 

2022

Henri Christofer Aavik (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 2nd prize at the 5th Evgeni Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Monte-Carlo (Monaco)

Vitali Alekseenok (Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): musical director at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf) from the 2022/23 season

Lucia Birzer (Alumna Prof. J. Puschbeck): Choir director with conducting duties at the Theater Hof from season 2022/23 (permanent engagement) as well as successful selection conducting for the support program Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council

Leonie Bulenda (Prof. U. Vogel): guest contract as correpetitor at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar for the production of the opera Samson by Joachim Raff

Martijn Dendievel (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Proms Round Award at the 1st International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Simon Edelmann (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Successful selection conducting for the support program Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council

David Fernandez Caravaca (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Successful selection conducting for the support program Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council

Clemens Fieguth (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 2nd Musical Director at the Theater Erfurt from season 2022/23 

Louis Fourie (Prof. T. Steinhöfel & Prof. U. Vogel): Assistant of the Choir Director at the Theater Dortmund from September 2022 (permanent employment)

Marie Jacquot (Alumna Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen from the 2024/25 season

Mauro Mariani (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Conductor of the Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg

Tobias Meichsner (Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): solo correpetitor and conductor at the Landestheater Salzburg (permanent employment)

Harry Ogg (Alumnus Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Musical director at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf) from the 2022/23 season

Friedrich Praetorius (Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): 1st prize at the 10th Competition for Opera Conductors in Orvieto (Italy), Conductor at the Deutsche Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar from the 2022/23 season as well as assistant of Marc Albrecht at the production of Franz Schreker's Der Schatzgräber at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Martin Rajna (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Successful selection conducting for the support program Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council

Lea Ray (Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): successful conducting audition for the Orchestra Academy 2022/23 of the Bergische Symphoniker

Sergi Roca Bru (alumnus class Prof. G. Kahlert, M. L. Frank, Prof. N. Pasquet): 1st Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Theater Flensburg

Karo van der Sanden (Prof. H.-C. Steinhöfel): choir correpetitor (opera choir / children's choir / youth choir) at the Volksoper Wien from August 2022 (permanent engagement) als well as temporary contract as solo correpetitor at the Theater Gera/Altenburg

Clemens Schuldt (alumnus class Prof. N. Pasquet): Principal Conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec (Canada)

Daniele Squeo (alumnus Prof. G. Kahlert, Prof. N. Pasquet and Prof. A. Bramall): Nomination of the General Music Director at the Pfalztheater Kaiserlautern as Conductor of the Year by Opernwelt magazine

Eric Staiger (Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): Conductor of the KHG Orchester Freiburg (Orchestra of the Catholic College Community) 


2021

Henri Christofer Aavik (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): 1st prize at the 8th International Jorma Panula Conducting Competition in Vaasa (Finnland) as well as scholarshop of the Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council 

Vitali Alekseenok (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 1st prize at the 11th „Arturo Toscanini“ International Conducting Competition in Parma (Italy) as well as musical director and conductor of the Kharkiv Music Festival in Ukraine

Felix Bender (Alumnus Klasse Prof. G. Kahlert, Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. A. Bramall): musical director of the Theather of the city Ulm from season 2021/22

Leonie Bulenda (Klasse Prof. U. Vogel): internship as solo correpetitor at the Theater Chemnitz and the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie

Chanmin Chung (Alumnus Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): conductor and assistant musical director at the Theater Aachen from season 2021/22

Martijn Dendievel (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): winner of the first Conductors‘ Academy of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Switzerland) as well as finalist at the Donatella-Flick-Dirigierwettbewerb in London as well as at the 1st international conducting competition in Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as 1st prize at the Deutscher Dirigentenpreis in Cologne as well as part of the list „Maestros von Morgen“ (maestros of tomorrow) of the Dirigentenforum of the Deutschen Musikrat

Lukas Gebelein (Klasse Prof. J. Puschbeck): musical director of the Singakademie Suhl

Anna Handler (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): assistant for Kirill Petrenko at the Berliner Philharmoniker for Tschaikowsky's Opera Mazeppa 

Tobias Meichsner (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): 2nd prize at the 11th conducting competition at the middlegerman musicuniversities with the MDR Sinfonieorchester as well as a guest treaty as correpititor for the opera Electric Saint at the Deutsches National theater Weimar

Giuseppe Mengoli (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): personal assistant of Lorenzo Viotti at the Netherland Philharmony and the National Opera Amsterdam for the season 2021/22

Claudio Novati (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): musical director and corepetitior at the Landestheather & Bruckner-Ochster Linz at the season 2021/22 as well as part of the list „Maestros von Morgen“ (maestros of tomorrow) of the Dirigentenforum of the Deutschen Musikrat

Friedrich Praetorius (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): 1st prize at the 11th conducting competition at the middlegerman musicuniversities with the MDR Sinfonieorchester, scholarship of the Dirigentenforum of the Deutscher Musikrat as well as 1st prize and orchestra prize at the 1st international conducting competition at the university Almería (Spain)

David Preil (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): scholarship of the Dirigentenforum of the Deutscher Musikrat

Eric Staiger (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): assistant producer of Offenbach's Hoffmanns Erzählungen at the Gärtnerplatz Theater Munich

Annabelle Weinhart (Klasse Prof. J. Puschbeck): musical director of the university chior of the Technical University Chemnitz as well as 3rd prize and special prize at the 2nd international competition for choral conductors Romano Gandolfi in Parma (Italy)

Tobias Wögerer (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): assistant at the production of Janáček's Das schlaue Füchslein at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich


2020

Dominik Beykirch (Alumnus Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet, Prof. G. Kahlert und M. Hoff): general music director of the Deutsche Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar from season 2020/21

Tung-Chieh Chuang (Alumnus Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und M. L. Frank): general music director of the Bochumer Symphoniker from the season 2021/22 as well as artistic director of the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

Willanny Darias (Klasse Prof. U. Vogel): correpetitior of the musical Cabaret at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar for the season 2020/21 as well as a engagement as solo correpetitior at the stages of the city Gera/Altenburg since January 2021 

Simon Edelmann (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): successful conducting audition for the scholarship of the Ernst-Boehe-Akademie of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Valentin Egel (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet & Prof. E. Wycik): general music director at the Kroatische Nationaltheater Rijeka

Anna Handler (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): Maria-Ladenburger sponsorship award for music of the Cusanuswerk as well as a scholarship of the Bergischen Symphoniker Remscheid/Solingen

Claudio Novati (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet, Prof. E. Wycik, Prof. H.-C. Steinhöfel & Prof. U. Vogel): solo correpetitor at the Landestheater Linz / Bruckner Orchester Linz from season 2020/21

Harry Ogg (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet und Prof. E. Wycik): 3rd Prize at the 6th conductor`s competition The Mahler Competition of the Bamberger Symphoniker

David Preil (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet, Prof. E. Wycik & Prof. H.-C. Steinhöfel): correpetitor at the Junge Ensemble der Staatsoper Dresden from season 2020/21

Friedrich Praetorius (Klasse Prof. N. Pasquet, Prof. E. Wycik & Prof. U. Vogel): musical assistent and correpetitor at the opera "Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch" at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar for the season 2020/21

Julian Pontus Schirmer (Klasse Prof. E. Wycik und Prof. N. Pasquet): scholarship of the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank-Stiftung for the season 2021–2023

BASSOON

2023

Kaoru Fujisawa (class of Prof. F. Forst): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra Chemnitz

Jisu Jeon (class of Prof. F. Forst): 2nd prize at the First International Bassoon Orchestral Excerpts Competition
 

2022

Álvaro Rodríguez Calero (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition for the position of 2nd bassoon with contrabassoon at the Thüringer Symphoniker Rudolstadt (permanent employment)

Giovanni Costa (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition for the substitute list of the stage orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milano 

Jisu Jeon (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition as solo bassoonist of the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau (permanent employment)

Tatia Slouka (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition for an internship at the Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra Greiz Reichenbach

Yung-Hao Yang (Prof. F. Forst): prize winner of the International Concert Competition Winds in Brescia 2022 as well as internship at the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen in the season 2022/23
 

2021

Jisu Jeon (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition as deputy principal solo bassoon at the Philharmonisches Staatsorchesters Hamburg (temporary contract) and successful audition as solo bassoon at the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie (temporary contract)
 

2019

Dorothea Bastian (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition for an internship at the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

Lampros-Ioannis Lapinas (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (permanent employment)

Álvaro Rodríguez Calero (Prof. F. Forst): successful audition for an internship at the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester
 

2017

Lampros Lapinas (Prof. F. Forst): bassoon at the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (annual contract)

Laia Magri Pont (alumna Klasse Prof. F. Forst): lecturer for contrabassoon and bassoon as subsidiary subject at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona

Kyoko Morooka (Prof. F. Forst): bassoon at the orchestra Plovdiv in Bulgaria (permanent employment)

Adrian von Oppeln-Bronikowski (Prof. F. Forst): part of the orchestra academy of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock from season 2017/18

Jin Wang (Prof. F. Forst): substitute at the Jenaer Philharmonie

 

FLUTE

2023

Hannah Bernitt (Alumna class of Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): 3rd prize in the Two Flutes category at the 20th Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition together with Martha Flamm.

Mariana Diaz (class of Prof. A. Garzuly-Wahlgren): Won audition for the orchestra academy of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

Martha Flamm (class of Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): 3rd prize in the category Two Flutes at the 20th International Flute Competition Friedrich Kuhlau together with Hannah Bernitt

Emma Hochschild (class of Prof. A. Garzuly-Wahlgren): 1st prize in the category Two Flutes at the 20th International Flute Competition Friedrich Kuhlau together with Luca Höhmann in the Duo Twin Tweets, 2nd prize at the International Dutch Flute Competition, won audition as principal flutist of the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra (temporary contract) and won audition for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO)
 

2022

Chia-Yu Hsu (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): member of the orchestra of the Berlin Opera Academy in summer 2022

Martha Flamm (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): successful audition as 2nd flute with piccolo flute at the Staatsorchester Kassel (permanent engagement)

Cassandra Slater (Prof. A. Garzuly-Wahlgren): successful audition as solo flute at the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin and 2nd prize at the International Dutch Flute Competition

Pauline Turillo (Prof. A. Garzuly-Wahlgren): solo piccolo at the MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig (temporary contract)


2021

Hannah Bernitt (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): part of the Orchesterakademie of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock as well as 2nd prize at the Orchestral Competition of the Tampere Flute Fest (Finnland)

Martha Flamm (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): successful audition as assistant solo flute and 2nd and 3rd flute at the Hofer Symphoniker (temporary contract)


2020

Alma Cermak (center of highly gifted students, B. Plag & A. Cuchal): 3rd prize in the second category (15 to 17 years) at the international ONLINE competition for young flute players 2020 and 2nd prize at the intern competition of the music school Schloss Belvedere

Lina Kochskämper (center of highly gifted students, B. Plag & A. Cuchal): 3rd prize in the second category (15 to 17 years) at the international ONLINE competition for young flute players 2021

Konstantinos Margaris (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): 2nd chair with piccolo flute at the Athens Philharmonia Orchestra from season 2020/21 and DAAD-Prize 2020 of the HfM

Lauren Wischnewski (center of highly gifted students, B. Plag & A. Cuchal): 3rd prize in the first category (to 14 years) at the international ONLINE competition for young flute players 2020


2019

Anna Cuchal (geb. Jakubcova, Alumna Prof. W. Hase): successful audition for solo flute at the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt

Martha Flamm (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): successful audition as 3rd/1st flute at the Beethovenorchester Bonn (temporary contract)

Leonardo Hernández (Prof. W. Hase): successful audition for solo flute at the Staatskapelle Weimar (temporary contract)

Su Kyung Jang (Prof. U.-D. Schaaff): participation at the 44th German-Nordic orchestra week of the German-Nordic-Youth Philharmonic in Berlin as well as successful audition for a internship at the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig as 2nd flute with piccolo

Lina Kochskämper (center of highly gifted students, B. Plag): 2nd prize at the intern music competition of the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students of the HfM

SINGING

2024

Joel Andreasson, baritone (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo at the German National Theatre Weimar 

Anastasiia Doroshenko, soprano (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo theatre Halle, Cover Solo Theatre Erfurt

Gustavo Mordente Eda, tenor (alumnus class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Fixed contract stage solo theatre Trier, Guest contract stage solo theatre Rostock

Leila Grace Hills, soprano (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract Stage Solo Theatre Altenburg Gera

Joanna Jaworowska, mezzo-soprano (alumna class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo Staatstheater Saarbrücken 

Ivon Mateljan, mezzo-soprano (alumna class Prof. Gehrke): Guest contracts stage solo at Erfurt Theatre and Altenburg-Gera Theatre

Marko Ostojic, Bass (Class Prof. M. Gehrke): Permanent contract 2nd bass Berlin State Opera

Jasper Sung, tenor (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contracts stage solo at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Theatre Erfurt, Theatre Altenburg Gera and Theatre Nordhausen

Nils Wanderer, countertenor (alumnus class Prof. S. Gohritz): Artist in Residence at the Mecklemburg State Theatre Schwerin in the 2024/25 season

Heain Youn, mezzo-soprano (Alumna Thüringer Opernstudio, class A.Schwanewilms): 1st prize at the International Competition "Francesco Cardaropoli" 2023, 2nd prize at the International Singing Competition "Chiara Magni" 2023, ensemble member at the Mittelsächsisches Theater
 

2023

Joel Andreasson, baritone (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract solo at the Theater Altenburg-Gera

Lotta Bagge, mezzo-soprano (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Prize winner of the OVIS Rösten singing competition for singers on the threshold of professional life in Malmö (Sweden) as well as "Anders Sandrew Scholarship" for young opera singers

Barbro Citron, soprano (alumna class Prof. M. Gehrke & Changhui Tan): Member of the Opera Studio of the Royal Danish Opera

Maben Cui, baritone (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract solo at the Theater Altenburg-Gera

Anastasiia Doroshenko, soprano (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): 2nd prize at the Medici International Music Competition (Great Britain) in the category "Voice professional", engagement as stage soloist at the Erfurt Theatre

Gustavo Mordente Eda, tenor (alumnus class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contracts Stage Solo at the Theatre Rostock as well as "Young Singer of the Year" at the Theatre Lübeck, awarded by the magazine "Der Opernfreund"

Simon Grindberg, tenor (class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract Deutsche Oper Berlin

Joanna Jaworowska, mezzo-soprano (alumna class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contracts stage solo at the theatre Altenburg Gera, theatre Halberstadt and theatre Hildesheim

Janis Constanza Gutiérrez Contreras, contralto (class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Fixed contract in the opera choir at the German National Theatre Weimar

Paul Jungchan Ham, bass (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Successful selection auditions as 2nd bass in the choir of the Theater Plauen-Zwickau (permanent contract) and as 2nd bass for the choir of the Stuttgart State Opera (temporary contract, position not taken up), also guest contract solo at the Theater Erfurt (Domstufenfestspiele)

Sukjoo Han, tenor (alumnus class Prof. M. Gehrke): 2nd tenor Theatre Chemnitz (fixed contract)

Joanna Jaworowska, mezzo-soprano (alumna class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo at the Altenburg Gera Theatre

Jongwoo Kim, tenor (class of Prof. S. Gohritz): Engagements stage solo at Theater Erfurt and Landesbühnen Sachsen

Minji Kim, soprano (class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Fixed contract in the opera choir of the Bremerhaven Theatre

Yu Yen Lai, tenor (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): 2nd tenor in the choir of the Theater Erfurt (permanent contract) 

Evelina Liubonko, soprano (class of Prof. S. Gohritz): Engagement stage solo at Theater Erfurt

Ivon Mateljan, mezzo-soprano (alumna class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contracts stage solo at the Theatre Altenburg Gera

Ugur Okay, bass (alumnus class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Fixed contract in the choir of the Hanover State Opera  

Marko Ostojic, bass (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contracts stage solo at the Theater Altenburg-Gera

Luísa Pimenta, soprano (class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo at the German National Theatre Weimar

Lena Ra, soprano (class of Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Guest contract stage solo at the Seoul Arts Center (South Korea)

André Rabello, baritone (alumnus class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo at the Teatro Bradesco in São Paolo

Maximilian Seifert, bass (class Prof. M. Gehrke/P. Arroyo-Lesuisse): Scholarship holder of the Foundation Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V.

Maria Shuliakovskaia, soprano (class of Prof. M. Gehrke) Berghausen Scholarship to promote the education of excellent young voice students

Felix Stöppler, tenor (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract solo at the Theater Altenburg-Gera, scholarship holder of the Foundation Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V. and and Charlotte Krupp Scholarship of the NEW LISZT FOUNDATION

Jasper Sung, tenor (class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contracts stage solo at the German National Theatre Weimar, Theatre Erfurt and Theatre Altenburg Gera

Pihla Tertunnen, mezzo-soprano (Alumna Thuringian Opera Studio, class Prof. M. Gehrke): Guest contract stage solo at the Finnish National Opera Helsinki

Anastasiia Tkachenko, soprano (class of Prof. S. Gohritz): Engagement stage solo, Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim 

Yan Vais (Class Prof. M. Gehrke): Christoph Stölzl German Scholarship of the HfM FRANZ LISZT Weimar

Mikhail Verkhoglyadov, baritone (class Prof. M. Gehrke/P. Arroyo-Lesuisse): Scholarship holder of the Foundation Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V.

Olivia Warburton, soprano (class of Prof. S.Gohritz): Engagements at the Hamburg State Opera as well as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Australia) and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Turkey)

Caleb Yoo, bass (alumnus class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Engagement at the Aachen Theatre as Doctor in "Wozzeck

Hong Zhou, tenor (class of Prof. M. Gehrke): Successful selection auditions as 2nd tenor in the choir of the Berlin State Opera (temporary contract) as well as for the Immling Festival

Hong Zhu, tenor (class Prof. M. Gehrke): 2nd tenor Staatsoper Berlin (temporary contract)


2022

Farida Tamer Abubakr, soprano (Prof. S. Gohritz): 3rd prize at the Concorso Internazionale die Esecuzione Musicale Giovani Musicisti – Città die Treviso

Joel Andreasson, baritone (Prof. M. Gehrke): 2nd prize of the 27th Lions Music Prize at District level 

Gustavo Eda, tenor (Thuringia Opera Studio, Prof. M. Gehrke): member of the international opera elite studio at the Theater Lübeck

Leila Grace Hills, soprano (class Prof. M. Gehrke): Germany Scholarship of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar

Simon Grindberg, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract stage solo at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and scholarship of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V.; Germany Scholarship of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and Anders Sandrew Scholarship for Young Opera Singers

Julietta Gulua, soprano (class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): 1st prize at the Ludwig-Spohr Chamber Music Competition

Shuai Han, tenor (Alumnus Prof. S. Gohritz): permanent engagement als soloist at the Mittelsächsische Theater Freiburg

Jonathan Hartzendorf, tenor (U. Schenker-Primus): permanent engagement as Tenor (Solo) at the Landestheater Linz (Austria)

Anna Harvey, mezzo soprano (Alumna Prof. S. Gohritz): 1st prize at the Paris Opera Competition 2022 

Yohan Kim, bass (U. Schenker-Primus): permanent engagement as 2nd Bass at the Deutsche Oper Berlin 

Yu Yen Lai, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Staatsoper Hamburg

Changmin Lee, bass (W. Schenker-Primus): permanent engagement as 1st bass at the Theater Neustrelitz 

Catriona Morison, mezzo soprano (Alumna Prof. S. Gohritz): guest contracts as soloist at the Scottish Opera, Opera Perth, Wuppertaler Bühnen and the Staatsoper Hamburg

Thora Müller, soprano (Prof. S. Gohritz): 1st prize at the Concorso Internazionale die Esecuzione Musicale Giovani Musicisti – Città die Treviso

Jongmin Park, Bass (Prof. S. Gohritz): guest contracts as a soloist at the Staatsoper Berlin and La Scala in Milano

Luísa Pimenta, soprano (class Prof. M. Gehrke): Berghausen Scholarship for Singing

André Rabello, baritone (alumnus class Prof. Gehrke) 1st bass German National Theatre Weimar (fixed contract)

Michael Rakotoarivony, baritone (Alumnus, Prof. S. Gohritz): permanent engagement as a soloist on stage at the Vienna State Opera

Katerina Spanárová, mezzo-soprano (Prof. G. Fischer): Member of the Opera Choir of the Deutsches Nationaltheater & Staatskapelle Weimar (permanent engagement)

Felix Stöppler, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): 1st prize of the 27th Lions Music Prize at District level

Jasper Sung, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): member of the Thuringian Opera Studio and guest contracts as a soloist on stage at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar 

Changhui Tan, baritone (Alumnus Prof. M. Gehrke): 1st bass with solo engagement (fixed contract) at the Norske Opera Oslo

Pihla Terttunen, mezzosoprano (Alumna Thuringia Opera Studio, Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contracts as a soloist on stage at the Finnish National Opera Helsinki  

Nils Wanderer, Countertenor (Alumnus Prof. S. Gohritz): 2nd prize at the "Operalia" competition of Placido Domingo in Riga (Latvia) as well as guest contracts as a soloist at the Staatsoper Hannover, the Opéra Lille and the Staatsoper Berlin

Kyunghee Yang, soprano (class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Fixed contract in the choir of the Bavarian State Opera Munich


2021

Jungchan Ham, bass (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Theater Erfurt

Luísa Pimenta, soprano (class Prof. M. Gehrke): Germany Scholarship of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar

Constantin Philippoff, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist at the Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen  

André Rabello, baritone (Prof. M. Gehrke): permanent engagement in the choir of the Bühnen der Stadt Gera 

Jasper Sung, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar

Caleb Yoo, bass (alumnus class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Guest contracts at the Korea National Opera (South Korea)
 

2020

Maia Andrews, soprano (Prof. S. Gohritz): member of the Thuringian Opera Studio starting in season 2020/21

Gustavo Eda, tenor (Thüringer Opernstudio, Prof. M. Gehrke): Young People’s Prize at the Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition 2020

Jungchan Ham, bass (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Theater Erfurt

Sukjoo Han, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Theater Erfurt

Su Yeon Kim, mezzo-soprano (Prof. S. Gohritz): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Theater Nordhausen/Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

Jongmin Park, bass ( Prof. S. Gohritz): engagements at La Scala Milano in September and October 2020 as Ramfis (Aida), at the Opèra Rouen in September 2020 as Hermann (Tannhäuser) as well as ash the Teatro Real Madrid in 2021

Hayoung Ra, soprano (Thüringer Opernstudio / Prof. A. Schwanewilms): member of the opera studio of the Staatstheater Nürnberg

Hayoung Ra, soprano (Thüringer Opernstudio/Prof. A. Schwanewilms): member of the opera studio of the Staatstheater Nürnberg

André Rabello, baritone (Prof. M. Gehrke): member of the choir at the stages of the city Gera (temporary contract)

Michael Rakotoarivony, baritone (Prof. S. Gohritz): member of Young Singers Project 2020 of the Salzburger Festspiele as well part of the Opernstudio of the Wiener Staatsoper

Felix Stöppler, tenor (M. Gehrke): sponsorship award of the Walter-Kaminsky-Stiftung at the 49th Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin

Jasper Sung, tenor (Prof. M. Gehrke): guest contract as a soloist on stage at the Theater Erfurt

Tatjana Timchenko, soprano (class Prof. A. Schwanewilms): Special Prize with Tatjana Kachko (piano) at the International Song Duo Competition in Groningen (Netherlands, 2020).

Jegyung Jay Yang, soprano (Prof. S. Gohritz): engagement at the stage Baden (Austria) as Violetta (La Traviata) in February and March 2021

GUITAR

2023

Ioanna Kazoglou (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize in category III of the Anna Amalia Guitar Competition 2023 in Weimar

Beatriz Ferreira Pinto (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize at the international guitar competition "Ze Gregorio" in Lagoa (Portugal) and 1st prize at the 10th Alhambra Junior International Guitar Competition CIGA in Valencia (Spain)

Pedro Miguel Santos Rodrigues (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 2nd prize at the international guitar competition "Ze Gregorio" in Lagoa (Portugal) 

Io Yamada (class of Prof. R. Gallén & Prof. T. Müller-Pering): 1st prize at the 55th Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition in Alessandria (Italy) and 3rd prize at the 31st Koblenz International Guitar Competition Hubert Käppel
 

2022

Ioanna Kazoglou (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize at the International Guitar Competition Arroyo de la Luz (Spain)

Io Yamada (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize at the 2nd Competition Premio Claudio De Angeli in Perugia (Italy), 2nd prize and prize for the best interpretation of the obligatoy piece at the 22nd Concours International de Guitare d'Antony as well as 2nd prize at the 28th International Competition of Musical Performance for Guitar – City of Mottola (Italy), 2nd prize at the Taiwan International Guitar Competition as well as 2nd prize at the Luxemburg International Classical Guitar Competition

2021

Silvia Kopácová (class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering): Märkisches Scholarship 2022 in the category "music"

Philipp Lang (class of Prof. R. Gallén): Franz Liszt Prize 2021 of the community of friends and supporters of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar

Yuki Saito (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize at the international guitar competition in Mottola (Italy), Sarajevo (Bosnia) and Tallinn (Estland) as well as 2nd prize and special prize at the international guitar competition in Szczecin (Poland), 2nd prize at the international guitar competition Michele Pittaluga in Alessandria (Italy) as well as 3rd prize at the international guitar competition in Madrid (Spain) and Houston (USA)

Sophie Schlaubitz (class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering): 3rd prize at the 1st International Ligita Competition Guitar Plus 1 at the Liechtensteiner Gitarrentage together with Clara Weise (Mandoline)

Lucija Štivčević (class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering): 1st prize and special award for the best interpretation of a classical piece at the 15th international Anna-Amalia guitar competition

Io Yamada (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 2nd prize at the international Forum Guitar Vienna Competition (Austria) as well as 2nd prize at the internationa guitar competition in Stuttgart as well as 3rd prize and „Leo Brouwer“-special prize at the 36th international guitar competition „Andrés Segovia“ in La Herradura (Spain)

2020

Valeriya Galimova (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 3rd prize at the international guitar competition Norba Caesarina in Cáceres (Spain)

Ollipekka Määttä (alumnus, class of Prof. R. Gallén): department head for plucking instruments at the municipal music school Chemnitz (permanent employment)

Priit Peterson (class of Prof. C. Spannhof): 3rd prize at the international Hannabach Competition for guitar

2019

David Antigüedad (class of R. Gallén): visiting professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de las Islas Baleares in Palma de Mallorca

Albrecht Bunk (class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering): teacher at the Robert-Schumann-Konservatorium in Zwickau

Erik Elias (class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering): teacher at the Kreismusikschule Saalfeld

Verena Helbig (class of K. Wolf): teacher at the Robert-Schumann-Konservatorium in Zwickau

Niklas Johansen (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize at the Volos international guitar festival as well as 3rd prize and audience award at the 20th International Biennial Guitar Competition at Kutná Hora (Czech Republic)

Ollipekka Määttä (class of Prof. R. Gallén): teacher at the municipal music school Chemnitz (permanent employment)

Yuki Saito (class of Prof. R. Gallén): 1st prize at the Veria international guitar festival (Greece), Presti-Lagoya (France), Melbourne (Australia), Omis (Croatia) and Elche (Spain), 2nd prize at the Qingdao international guitar festival (China), Volos (Greece), Roma Arilio Diaz (Italy) as well as Hommage to N. Paganini (Italy), 3rd prize at the Colorado international guitar festival (USA), Carry-le-Rouet (France) and Liechtenstein

Katja Wolf (class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering): assistant principal at the Robert-Schumann-Konservatoriums in Zwickau

FRENCH HORN

2024

Achille Fait (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Passed his probationary year as solo horn player of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne

Francisco Fernández (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Passed his probationary year as solo horn player in the Aachen Symphony Orchestra
 

2023

Salvador Belda Felipe (class Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Marco Cappelli (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for 3rd/1st horn in the Braunschweig State Orchestra (temporary contract)

Achille Fait (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the solo horn position in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne

Francisco Fernández (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the position of principal horn in the Aachen Symphony Orchestra

Carlos Garre (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Bergische Symphoniker

Guillem Golfe Andrés (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the alternating horn position in the State Orchestra Rheinische Philharmonie at the Koblenz Theatre

Álvaro Ferrández Gómez (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España

Leo Hümmler (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for 3rd/1st horn with the Thuringia State Police Orchestra

David Küntzel (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for 3rd horn with the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle

Luis Manuel Lorite López (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España

Daniel Schimmer (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won auditions for the position of deputy principal horn player in the Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg (temporary contract), for the Mendelssohn Orchestra Academy of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig as well as for the high horn in the State Orchestra Braunschweig (internship), 1st prize at the 14th Michal Spisak International Music Competition in Poland and 2nd prize at the IX Concurso Internacional de Trompa "Vincente Zarzo" in Benaguasil (Spain)

Ursula Weber (class of Prof. J. Brückner): Won audition for an internship in the Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg
 

2022

Francisco Carmona Fernández (class of Prof. J. Brückner): won audition for the position of principal horn in the Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra (temporary contract)

Achille Fait (Klasse Prof. J. Brückner): 1st prize at the 57th International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen, 1st prize at the International Lieksa Brass Competition (Finnland) and successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin

Isabel Hunter (Prof. J. Brückner): Internship in the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra 

Leo Hümmler (Prof. J. Brückner): member of the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt

Juhye Kim (Prof. J. Brückner): french horn player at the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover (temporary contract) as well as temporary contract in the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Joseph Longstaff (Prof. J. Brückner): successful auditions for the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and as french horn player at the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Margherita Lulli (Prof. J. Brückner): successful probation period as french horn player at the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Damien Muller (Prof. J. Brückner): 3rd prize at the 57th International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen, successful audition for the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy at the Staatskapelle Dresden and scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation 

Nicolas Pérez (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition as solo french horn at the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic)

Lida Ranta-Nikku (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the Oulu Symphony Orchestra (Finnland)

Daniel Schimmer (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition as french horn player at the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester


2021

Valentin Eschmann (alumnus, Prof. J. Brückner): successful probation period as solo french horn at the Hungarian State Opera

Achille Fait (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO)

Christina Hambach (alumna, Prof. J. Brückner): successful probation period as 2nd french horn at the Münchner Philharmoniker 

Juhye Kim (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

David Küntzel (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for an internship at the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester

Joana Mateu (Prof. J. Brückner): horn substitut at the Oldenburgischen Staatsorchester (temporary contract)

Emanuel Jean-Petit-Matile (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the solo french horn at the Staatskapelle Weimar 

Damien Muller (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) as well as successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt 

Daniel Schimmer (Prof. J. Brückner): successful auditions for an internship at the orchestra of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and french horn player at the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester as well as at the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Paul Wolf (Prof. J. Brückner): successful probation period as solo french horn at the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe


2020

Emily Farmer (Prof. J. Brückner): french horn player at the Berlin Opera Academy Orchestra 2020

Florian Gamberger (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Carlos Garre (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España (JONDE)

Christina Hambach (alumna Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for the 2nd french horn at the Münchner Philharmoniker

Sarah Schirmaier (Prof. J. Brückner): successful audition for a internship at the Nordwestdeutschen Philharmonie Herford

JAZZ / IMPROVISED SINGING

2023

Nikolay Bozhkov, jazz double bass (class of Prof. M. Bründl): Teacher for double bass and electric bass at the Kreismusikschule Rudolstadt (permanent position)
 

2022

Tobias Christl (Alumnus Prof. J. Cascaro & Prof. M. Schiefel): Collaborator in jazz singing at the University of Music Würzburg

Sonia Lönne (Alumna Prof. J. Cascaro and Prof. M. Schiefel): Swiss ZKB Jazz Prize 2022 with her duo project Bureau Bureau

Ophelia Ariadne Worbes (Prof. M. Schiefel & Prof. J. Cascaro): Full scholarship for a four-year bachelor's degree at Berklee College of Music Boston (USA)

CHAMBER MUSIC

2023

Filip Zaykov (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 2nd prize and special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the 8th International "Joseph Haydn" Chamber Music Competition in Vienna (Austria), 3rd prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition as well as Hans Gál Prize of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Villa Musica Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate with his "Trio Incendio"
 

2022

Bohyun Kang (clarinet, class of Prof. T. Johanns): 1st prize at the France Music Competition with his Weimar Trio (Johannes Daniel Schneider, piano | Julietta Gulua, voice)

Sophie Schlaubitz (guitar, class of Prof. T. Müller-Pering), Panagiotis Tzortzis and Daniló Kunze (guitar, class of Prof. R. Gallén) and Antigonie Baxe (guitar, HfMT München): 1st prize at the international competition "Music in the vineyards" 2022 in Serbia as Cantum Guitar Quartet

Marius Staible and Daniel Roth (accordion, Prof. C. Buder): Franz Liszt Prize of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar for the accordeon duo con:trust 
 

2021

Weimarer Flötenquartett (Prof. A. Garzuly-Wahlgren): 3rd prize at the 19th international „Friedrich Kuhlau“ flute competition for Mareike Friedel, Leonardo Hernandez, Cassandra Slater and Santiago Acosta Velasco


2019

Stuttgarter Kammerduo: 3rd prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition in Duesseldorf for Sebastian Fritsch, violoncello (Prof. W. E. Schmidt) and Rosa-Katharina Wember, violin (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn)


2018

Ivan Galić, piano (Prof. C. W. Müller) and Katarina Kutnar, violin (Prof. Dr. Friedemann Eichhorn): 1st prize at the Darko Lukić Competition in Croatia

Yuna Ha, Violine (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): violin (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 1st prize and three special prices at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition with her "Esmé Quartet"

Neža Torkar, accordion (Prof. I. Koval): 1st prize at the international accordion competition in Pula (Croatia) in the category chamber music together with Romana Fimbera on violoncello as well as 2nd prize at the international accordion competition in Klingenthal, in the category chamber as well as 1st prize and two special prices at the international accordion competition in Castelfidardo (Italy) in the category Ensemble Classic as "Duo Accellorandom" with Romana Simbera on violoncello

Stringente Quartett (center of highly gifted students, B. Hartmann): 1st prize with special honor at the 13th international Ars Nova competition in Triest

Trio Illimitato (center of highly gifted students): 1st prize at the international competition Concertino Praga 2018 in the category Trio for Johanna Schneegans, recorder (K. Schumann), Matteo Hornig, guitar (Prof. J. Rost) and Arnold Maklezow, accordion (Prof. C. Buder)

CLARINET

2024

Josef Lehmann (class of Prof. T. Johanns): Won audition as deputy solo clarinettist in the Meiningen Court Orchestra (temporary contract)
 

2023

Krisztián Halmos (class of Prof. T. Johanns): Won audition as clarinetist of the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen (permanent position)

Malte Jansen (class of Prof. T. Johanns): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Moritz Pettke (alumnus class Prof. T. Johanns): Completed a probationary year as solo bass clarinettist with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and teaching position for clarinet at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden

Moritz Schneidewendt (alumnus class Prof. T. Johanns): Ernst von Siemens Music Prize with his ensemble "Broken Frames Syndicate"

Tamara Steinmetz (class of Prof. T. Johanns): Won audition as solo clarinettist of the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra and solo clarinettist of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm (temporary contract)

Gervasio Tarragona Valli (class of Prof. T. Johanns): 1st prize at the International Competition for Clarinet Sava Dimitriov in Sofia (Bulgaria)

Tatjana Weller (class of Prof. T. Johanns): Won audition for the bass clarinet/clarinet in the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover (permanent position)
 

2022

Tamara Steinmetz (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audtition for the solo clarinet at the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim 

Gervasio Tarragona Valli (Prof. T. Johanns): 2nd prize and audience prize at the International Wolfgang Meyer Clarinet Competition in Karlsruhe with his duo partner Sergio Escalera Soria (piano) in the D'Takito JamDuo


2021

Jonathan Groß (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audtition for the solo clarinet at the Niederbayerische Philharmonie Passau as well as succesfull audition for a Villa Musica scholarship

Annette Kruckow (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audtition as clarinet and bassclarinet at the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder

Julius Ockert (alumnus Prof. T. Johanns): solo clarinet of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin 

Veronika Pallach (Prof. T. Johanns): part of the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt 

Moritz Pettke (Prof. T. Johanns): solo bassclarinet at the Staatskapelle Dresden

Clarissa Marie Schmitt (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audtition fo a Villa Musica scholarship

Charlotte Skill (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audtition for clarinet and bassclarinet t the „Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie“ in Goerlitz (temporary contract) 

Tamara Steinmetz (Prof. T. Johanns): part of the orchestra academy of the symphonyorchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunk as well as successful audtition for a Villa Musica scholarship

Gervasio Tarragona Valli (Prof. T. Johanns): 1st price at the Gran Premi Musical Luredia competition in Andorra

Tatjana Weller (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audition as clarinet and bass clarinet of the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder


2020

Krisztián Halmos (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Halle


2019

Veronika Giesen (alumna, Prof. T. Johanns): lectureship for clarinet at the Bergischen Universität Wuppertal

Moritz Pettke (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audition for the Giuseppe-Sinopoli-Akademie of the Staatskapelle Dresden

Clarissa Marie Schmitt (Prof. T. Johanns): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Komischen Oper Berlin

Gervasio Gaston Tarragona Valli (Prof. T. Johanns): 1st price and audience award  at the 30th Japanese Woodwinds Competition, 1st price at the Cluj International Music Competition in Romania, 2nd price at the Giacomo Mensi International Clarinet Competition, 3rd price at the competition Rencontres régionales et concours des anches simples de Toulouse as well as a price for the best interpretation of a piece written by Bohuslav Martinů at the Leoš Janáček International Competition in Brno (Czech)

PIANO

2024

Janick Cech (class of Prof. Michail Lifits): 1st prize at the 15th International Volodymyr Krainev Competition for Young Pianists "Kharkiv meets Zurich"

Ben Lepetit (preliminary class Prof. Michail Lifits): 3rd prize at the 15th International Volodymyr Krainev Competition for Young Pianists "Kharkiv meets Zurich"
 

2023

Susanna Braun (class of Prof. G. Gruzman): "Prix Sogel Pontoise" as well as "Prix Brigitte Engerer" at the 21st International Piano Competition "Piano Campus 2023" in Paris

Daniel Golod (alumnus Prof. G. Gruzman): Lectureship for major and minor piano at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

Emir Ilgen (class of Prof. C. W. Müller): 3rd prize of the 6th International Piano Competition Aarhus (Denmark) in category B (16-21 years)

Felix Kehr (class of Prof. C. W. Müller): Special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Max Reger at the 4th International Hans-von-Bülow Competition in Meiningen.

Matei Labunt (class Prof. M. Lifits): 1st prize at the International Youth Music Competition "Dinu Lipati" in Bucharest (Romania)

Tamta Magradze (class of Prof. G. Otto): 2nd prize at the International Competition "Gran Premi Musical Lauredia 2023" in Andorra

Artemy Sokolovsky (class Prof. M. Lifits): 1st prize and audience award at the International Piano Competition "Premio Pianistico Silvio Bengalli" (Italy) and 1st prize and audience award at the International Piano Competition "Russian Piano Music Sanremo" (Italy)

Alina Stark (Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere / Highly Gifted Centre, class of Prof. C. W. Müller): 2nd prize in category V at the North International Music Competition 2023

Deren Wang (class of Prof. G. Gruzman): 1st prize at the 7th International „Svetislav Stančić“ Piano Competition in Zagreb (Croatia) as well as special prizes for the best Beethoven sonata and the best performance with orchestra

Iva Zurbo (class of Prof. C. W. Müller): Head of piano department and teacher at the music school "Heinrich Schütz" in Gera


2022

Wilhelmine Freytag (Junior student Prof. G. Gruzman): Three-year monthly scholarship from the Hannelore Grabow Foundation

Mikhail Kambarov (Prof. C. W. Müller): 1st prize at the International Alexander SkrjabinPiano Competition in Grosseto (Italy)

Andrey Zenin (Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel & Prof. H.C. Steinhöfel): 3rd prize and special prize for the best improvisation at the 12th Darmstadt International Chopin Competition
 

2021

Nicolas Absalom (Prof. C. W. Müller): 3rd price at the 2nd international „Carl Maria von Weber“ piano competition in Dresden

Can Çakmur (Prof. G. Gruzman): Young Artist of the Year of the ICMA as well as a Diapason d’Or for his new PrincipalCD Schwanengesang published by the label BIS

Dina Ivanova (alumna, Prof. G. Gruzman): one year Carl Bechstein Stiftung scholarship

Tamta Magradze (Prof. G. Otto): 2nd price at theInternational Paderewski Competition in Poland as well as 2nd price at the Great Maters International Piano Competition – Vladimir Horowitz Edition (online) as well as 2nd price and Liszt special price at the 5th La Palma d‘oro Piano Competition as well as finalist at the international Franz Liszt piano competition in Budapest (Hungary)

Lovre Marušić (Prof. G. Gruzman): 2nd price a the Cleveland International Piano Competition

Max Mostovetski (Prof. G. Gruzman): 2nd price at the 2nd internationalen „Carl Maria von Weber“ piano competition in Dresden as well as as special price at the 9th Euregio Piano Award 2021

Yumeka Nakagawa (Prof. G. Gruzman): 1st price, audience award and Coup de Coeur at the international Clara-Haskil-Klavierwettbewerb in Vevey (Switzerland)


2020

Monan Jülch (center of highly gifted students, Prof. C. W. Müller): 3rd price in the category C at the 8th César Franck International Piano Competition 2020 in Belgium 

Felix Kehr (Prof. C. W. Müller): admission into the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Tamta Magradze (Prof. G. Otto): audience award at the 12th Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, what lead to a participation at the European Liszt Night Tour 2021

Viktor Satler (Prof. C. W. Müller): 1st price at the intern music competition of the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students of the HfM


2019

Mariam Batsashvili (Prof. G. Gruzman): contract with the CD-Label Warner Classics, first PrincipalCD with compositions by Chopin and Liszt publishes in August 2019

Ting Chia (Prof. G. Gruzman): 2nd price at the Singapore international Piano Competition as well as 3rd price at the international Young Piano Stars-Wettbewerb in Königs Wusterhausen as well as 3rd price at the international Admigdala-competition in Catania (Italy)

Ivan Galić (Prof. C. W. Müller): 1st price in the category piano and Grand Prix at the 2nd International Mozart-Competition Berlin 2019 as well as 1st price in the category Piano Performance at the Competition Città di San Donà di Piave (Italy) as well as a silver medal in the category Piano Virtuoso at the international Music Competition in Berlin as well as a permanent employment feste Stelle als piano teacher at the Musikschule Eisenberg (75%)

Daniel Golod (Prof. G. Gruzman): 3rd price at the 17th international piano competition 2019 of the Chopin-Gesellschaft Hannover

Seul-A Jeon (Prof. B. Szokolay): 2nd price in the category piano at the 2nd international Mozart-Competition in Berlin 2019

Mikhail Kambarov (center of highly gifted students, Prof. C. W. Müller): 1st price at the intern competition of the music school Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students

Shinho Lee (Prof. G. Otto): 3rd price at the 21st Concours International de Piano d'Ille-de-France in Paris

Joel Madalinski-Artur (center of highly gifted students, S. Bitar): 1st price at the 11th Bach-Wettbewerb für junge Pianisten in Köthen 2019 in second category

Almog Segal (Prof. B. Szokolay): 3rd price at the Tel Aviv International Piano Competition

Ádám Zsolt Szokolay (Prof. G. Gruzman): 1st price at the International Bartók-Klavierwettbewerb 2019 at the Bartók World Competition and Festival in Budapest

Veronika Voloshyna (Prof. G. Gruzman): 2nd price at the 1st International Piano Competition in Radovljica (Slovenia)

Kamile Zaveckaite (Prof. G. Gruzman): 1st price at the 31st International Music Competition in Citta di Moncalieri (Italy)

COMPOSITION

2022

Marta Kowalczuk (Alumna Prof. M. Obst): Young Talent Award at the German Film Music Prize for her music to the silent film "Der Rundfunk auf dem Lande" from 1928
 

2021

Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (Prof. M. Obst): selected for the project Fiction in Archives at the artist and research residence at the ISELP in Brussels as well as selected for the participation as composer at the Nordic Percussion Festival in Denmark with his newest composition Assembly Line

Marta Kowalczuk (Prof. M. Obst): Honorable Mention at the The Frost School of Music Ensemble Ibis Competition for Quintet (Miami, USA) as well her peace Improvvisazione per violino barocco was selected at the Kaleidoscope call for scores for the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (Los Angeles, USA)

Suyeon Lee (Prof. M. Obst): selection and premiere of her composition "von Punkten und Linien" at the 12th Saarbrücker Komponistenwerkstatt of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie

Jongsung Oh (Prof. M. Obst): main price for his composition "A Horny Faun’s Rampage" for chamber orchestra at the 4th Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers

Romeo Wecks (alumnus, Prof. M. Obst): winner of the Sondershäuser composition competition with his chamber music composition DistanzSchatten and sketches for a work for violin and orchestra


2020

Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (Klasse Prof. M. Obst): 2nd price at the Composition World Cup of the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna, selected as Artist in Residence of the OP ENHEIM in Warsaw (Poland) as well as a commission of the Opera Elect (USA) after a international composition contest the Home Grown Theatre in Idaho

Marta Kowalczuk (Klasse Prof. M. Obst): her vocal piece "Twelth Night" was selected for a performance at the 41st Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival (USA) in October 2020

Dongsun Shin (Klasse Prof. M. Obst): 1st price at the composition contest 2020 of the Thüringer Landesmusikakademie Sondershausen with his piece Kontrast


2019

Eric Domenech (Klasse Prof. R. Wolschina): Composer in Residence at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn as scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes in September 2019

Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (Prof. M. Obst): 2nd price at the composition competition Harmonia Classica in Vienna for his composition "Gudrun und die dunkle Fee" for accordion solo as well as a commission of the Kammerakademie Potsdam as winner of the tender Klänge hinter Mauern as well as winner at the Sondershäuser composition competition with his chamber music composition "Eingemauert" as well as finalist at the composition price Valentino Bucchi in Rome including a commission for the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra as well as a scholarship over nine months as Composer in Residence of the Künstlerhof Schreyahn (Niedersachsen) as well as a commission for a composition for saxophone solo of the Sao Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival 

Mohammad H. Javaheri (Dr. Ulrich Kreppein): chosen composer for the MISE-EN Festival 2019 in New York as well as finalist of the 20th International Composition Competition for chamber music of the Weimarer Frühjahrstage for contemporary music as well as chosen composer for the Omnibus Ensemble as well as chosen participant for the Akademie Synthetis 2019 in Warshaw (Poland) with lessons from Chaya Czernowin, Toshio Hosokawa, Zygmuns Krauze and Justė Janulytė as well as a participation at the BCA19 Academy in Turkey

Jingyu Jang (Prof. M. Obst): 1st price at the Karl Amadeus Hartmann-Kompositionspreis for his composition Omega for string trio as well as a admission of his composition Mul-Gyeol for flute at the Herbert-Baumann-Kompositions-Wettbewerb into the Edition Neue Töne for flute as well as winner of the tender of the Wittener Tage for contemporary chamber music with his composition Nabi, that was performed by the Ensemble Modern at the Newcomer Concert on May 10th 2019

DOUBLE BASS

2023

Hadar Kadosh (class of Prof. D. Greger): Won audition for the solo double bass position in the orchestra of the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv

Henning Stangl (alumnus Prof. D. Greger): Passed probationary year as double bass player of the Staatskapelle Dresden
 

2022

Lisabet Seibold (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition for the assistant solo double bass at the MDR Sinfonieorchester

Henning Stangl (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition for a tutti position in the Staatskapelle Dresden

Karina Tschirner (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition for the position of the deputy solo bass in the orchestra of the Clara-Schumann-Philharmoniker Plauen-Zwickau 


2021

Antonia Hadulla (Prof. D. Greger): scholarship of the Stiftung Begabtenförderung Cusanuswerk

Franziska Rau (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition as solo double bass at the Magdeburgische Philharmonie at the Theater Magdeburg

Lisabet Seibold (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin scholarship for extraordinary achievments of the Carl-Flesch-Akademie Baden-Baden as well as successful audition for the Villa Musica scholarship

Henning Stangl (Prof. D. Greger): Gewonnenes Probespiel für die Giuseppe-Sinopoli-Akademie der Staatskapelle Dresden und Förderpreis für herausragende Leistungen der Carl-Flesch-Akademie Baden-Baden


2020

Antonia Hadulla (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition at the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie as well as a scholarship of the Hans und Eugenia Jütting Stiftung

Christoph Haaß (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition as solo double bass at the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz


2019

Christoph Haaß (Prof. D. Greger): successful audition for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) (4th time)

Antonia Hadulla (center of highly gifted students, Prof. D. Greger): 1st price at the intern competition of the music school Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students

Franziska Rau (Prof. D. Greger): temporary contract as double bass at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Lisabet Seibold (Prof. D. Greger): 1st price in the category double bass at the 2nd international Mozart-Competition Berlin 2019 and part of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Henning Stangl (Prof. D. Greger): part of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

ARTISTIC SONG INTERPRETATION

2023

Luzia Ernst (Alumna class M. Zumbült and Prof. T. Steinhöfel): Won audition for the Heidelberg Lied Academy 2023/24 with Thomas Hampson

Megumi Hata, piano (class of Prof. K.-P. Kammerlander): Emerging Artist as Repetiteur of the Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence (Italy).

Jihi Hwang, piano (class of Prof. K.-P. Kammerlander): Lecturer in vocal repetition at the Korea National Opera Academy and at Hanyang University.

Tatjana Kachko, piano (class of Prof. T. Steinhöfel): Senior Artist for solo and class repetition at the Department of Voice of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
 

2022

Sion Cho, piano (class of Prof. K.-P. Kammerlander): Lecturer in Piano and Vocal Correpetition at the Universities of Hansei, Seoul and Hyupsung

Elitsa Desseva, piano (alumna, Prof. T. Steinhöfel): part of the Heidelberger Liedakademie conducted by Thomas Hampson 

Luzia Ernst, mezzo-soprano (class of M. Zumbült) and Mikhail Kambarov, piano (class of Prof. C. W. Müller, both also Artistic Song Interpretation class of Prof. T. Steinhöfel): Student Jury Award of the International Student LiedDuo Competition in Groningen (Netherlands)

Teodora Oprisor, piano (alumna, Prof. T. Steinhöfel): part of the Heidelberger Liedakademie conducted by Thomas Hampson

Yuriko Watanabe, piano (alumna class of Prof. K.-P. Kammerlander): 3rd prize at the 13th International Competition for Lied Art Stuttgart of the Hugo-Wolf-Academy together with her duo partner Zhuohan Sun as well as scholarship holder of the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling 2022/23


2020

Teodora Oprisor, piano (Prof. T. Steinhöfel): graduated the concert exams with special honor at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar

Michael Rakotoarivony, bariton voice (Prof. S. Gohritz) and Teodora Oprisor, piano (Prof. T. Steinhöfel): 1st price at the international lied duo competition in Groningen (Netherlands)

Tatjana Timchenko, soprano (Prof. A. Schwanewilms) and Tatjana Kachkó, piano (Prof. T. Steinhöfel): special price for participation at the "Pieter de Groote" festival at the international Liedduo in Groningen (Netherlands)


2019

Eunjee Ko, piano (class of Prof. K.-P. Kammerlander): Teaching position for vocal correpetition at the Sungshin Women's University in Seoul (South Korea)

Michael Rakotoarivony, baritone (Prof. T. Steinhöfel and Prof. S. Gohritz): 3rd price at the international singing competition "Das Lied" in Heidelberg, in lied duo with Teodora Oprisor on piano

Mikhail Timoshenko, bass-bariton and Elitsa Desseva, piano (Prof. T. Steinhöfel): 1st price at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition as well as 3rd price and audience award at the international chamber music competition in Lyon in the category lied duo


2018

Tatiana Kachko (Prof. T. Steinhöfel und Prof. G. Gruzman): 3rd price at the International Piano Competition Val Tidone and Piano Competition "Premio Silvio Bengalli" in Italy

Mikhail Timoshenko, bass-baritone and Elitsa Desseva, piano (Prof. T. Steinhöfel): 1st price at the 11th International competition for Liedkunst Stuttgart as well as 2nd price and audience award at the International Schubert-Competition in Dortmund as well as 1st price at the Liedwettbewerb "Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne" in Graz

MUSIC EDUCATION

2023

Tim Ahlfeld: Teaching position for practical school piano playing at the University of Erfurt in the Department of Music

Christoph Gerl (Alumnus): 3rd prize at the German Choir Competition with his jazz choir Cantaloop (Hamburg)

Daniel Gracz: Teaching position for practical school piano playing at the University of Erfurt in the Department of Music and musical director for the production "Hurra, die Welt geht unter!" in the Studio.Box of the Erfurt Theatre

Paul Kohlmann: Teaching assignment for practical school piano playing at the University of Erfurt in the Department of Music and production of two of his own choral arrangements by Deutschlandfunk Kultur for the pop/jazz choir "Voice It" Dresden

Maximilian Lörzer (Alumnus): 2nd prize at the German Choir Competition with his Psycho-Choir of the University of Jena in the category jazz choir

Andreas Wolff: 1st place in the iTunes classical charts with his neo-classical single "Blackbird" for piano
 

2022

Bastian Schmitt: special prize for the stylishly secure baroque improvisation of a diastematic series at the 15th Bundeswettbewerb Schulpraktisches Klavierspiel GROTRIAN-STEINWEG
 

2020

Prof. Gero Schmidt-Oberländer: Best Edition-Prize of the deutscher Musikverleger-Verband for the first edition of his school book series MusiX as well as a suggestion for BMU-Medien Prize 2020 for the new edition of his textbook MusiX. Das Kursbuch Musik 1 (Helbling Verlag, Esslingen | Autoren: Markus Detterbeck, Gero Schmidt-Oberländer)

Wolfgang Skill (born as Geiger, alumnus): teacher for music theory and ear training at the Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden and lecturer for Schulpraktisches Klavierspiel at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden


2019

Friederike Bücherl: Herder-Förderpreis for the bachelor thesis "Musikalische Transkulturation am Beispiel von aktueller Chormusik at the lutherischen Kirche in Tansania"

Matthias Meyke (alumnus): lecturer for piano with main emphasis for sight reading, improvisation and lied accompaniment at the Folkwang Universität der Künste

Josephine Tancke: engagement at the Gospel- and Soul-Musical "Sister Soul und ihre Schwestern" by Mathias Christian Kosel at the den stages in Stuttgart


2018

Hanna Böcking: permanent employment for violin, viola and conductor of the youth symphony orchestra at the Musikschule Lauffen am Neckar

Daniel Gracz: audience award as well as special prize of the Bundesverband Musikunterricht for a very powerful performance of a poem interpretation at the 14th Bundeswettbewerb Schulpraktisches Klavierspiel GROTRIAN-STEINWEG as well as Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung scholarship

Marc Herwig: main prize at the 14th Bundeswettbewerb Schulpraktisches Klavierspiel GROTRIAN-STEINWEG

Stephanie Piatek: 1st prize für her master thesis "Funktionsanalyse der Wirbelsäule beim Saxophonspiel als Grundlage zur Entwicklung präventiver Strategien at the musikpädagogischen Ausbildung" at the Studienpreis of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin 2018

MUSICOLOGY | ARTS MANAGEMENT | MUSIC THEORY

2024

Erik Domenech (music theory): Teacher of theory and piano at the Erlangen Music Institute for Piano and Music Theory (permanent position)
 

2023

Tom Adler: Research Associate of the Richard Wagner Sites Graupa near Dresden

Raphael Baader (Music Theory): New General Secretary of the General Cäcilienverband

Mitra Behpoori (Transcultural Music Studies): Member of the Expert Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage of the German UNESCO Commission 2023/24

Sebastian Oliver Eck: Musicological lecture at Waseda University in Tokyo (Japan) on the topic "Bridging the Gap: Demonstrating the Applicability of Linguistic Analysis Tools in Digital Musicology"

Laura Eisen (Alumna): Orchestra Manager at the Graz Opera House

Philipp Etzel: stage manager and assistant to the director at the Erfurt Theatre

Nastasia Heckendorff (Alumna): Post-doctoral position at the Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna from October 2023; Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University (USA) from April 2024

Emilia Kämper (Alumna): Trainee in orchestra management at the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and scholarship for high achieving international students of the Ca' Foscari University for the master's degree "Economics and Administration of Arts and Culture"

Johanna Koerrenz (Music Theory, class of Prof. J. Arnecke): Lectureship at the University of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden in the subject Music Theory / Aural Training / Musical Analysis from summer semester 2023 onwards

Diana Lizura (Music Theory, class M. Aydintan): 1st prize at the 12th Artistic Competition of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) in the category "Historical Style"

Roman Lüttin (Alumnus): Research assistant at the Musicology Department of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Jonas Nachtsheim (Alumnus): Head of Sponsoring and Corporate Cooperations at the Beethovenfest Bonn; Lectureship "Marketing in Music Management" at the University of Cologne 

Anna-Lena Öhmann (Alumna): Specialist for Music at the City Cultural Directorate Weimar

Malte Waag (Alumnus): Publication of his bachelor thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Michael Klaper and Prof. Dr. em. Helen Geyer under the title "Paul Hindemith's 'Mathis der Maler': A Symbol of Inner Emigration or Expression of an Attempted Arrangement with the Nazi State?" in the Hindemith-Yearbook 51 (2022), pp. 62-126

Elias Wöllner (Alumnus): Board member and project manager of the Academia Musicalis Thuringiae (AMT)

Vanessa Zuber (alumna): Theatre teacher for the musical theatre and concert sections at the Theatre Vorpommern (Stralsund)


2022

Eszter Johanna Barta (B.A. Musicology): Dramaturg and librettist for operas by Giordano Bruno di Nascimento in 2021 and 2022

Wenna Liu (Alumna Musicology): Project Manager of the Deutsche Chorverband for the Deutsche Chorfest in Leipzig from May 26 to May 29, 2022 with 350 Choirs and Vocal Ensembles 

Lisa Schön ( M.A. Musicology, PhD), Emilia Kämper (B.A. Musicology / Music and Arts Management), Annika Kempf (B.A. Musicology/Musical practise) und Sabrina Hösch (B.A. Media Culture Bauhaus-Universität, M.A. Arts Management HfM Weimar):
Organizers of the Music Festival Klangrausch in Weimar and Jena 2022

Aylin Yilmaz (Alumna Musicology): Lecturer in Ankara (Turkey) 
 

2021

Dr. Maria Behrendt: research assistant (Postdoc) at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft at the Philipps-Universität Marburg

Christian Diemer: Head of the Goethe-Instituts Kiew (Ukraine)

Mariano Gonzalez: musicologist at the interdisciplinary research project "Musik, Sprache, Linguistik" at the University Utrecht, Netherlands

Dr. Nina Graeff: Professor for Ethnomusicology at the Music Department of the Staatliche Universität von Oaraiba, Brasil

Peter Lell: scholarship for doctoral studies at the University of Arts Vienna  

Luka Mukhavele: scholarship for doctoral studies of the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung  

Marie-Louise Stille: Mentee in the Mentoring-Program of the German Cultural Counci for high qualified women that aim a leading position in the cultural and media sector

Mukasa Wafula: Assistant Professor im Music Department der Technical University Nairobi, Kenia  


2020

Maria Behrendt: Postdoc scholarship of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena for her project reception of Irish Folk Music in german popular culture of the 21th century

Philipp Schmidt (music theory, Prof. J. Arnecke): 3rd prize at the 10. Aufsatz-Wettbewerb 2020 of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) for his essay "Aus der Not eine Tugend machen: Zur Vermittlung von Alberto Posadas’ Anklänge an ‚La cathédrale engloutie‘" bei den Wittener Tagen für neue Kammermusik 2020

Lorina Strange (alumna): manager of the STEGREIF.orchesters in Berlin


2019

Lucas Heller (musicologist, bassist): 1st prize with his "Ensemble Nobiles" at the vocal ensemble competition in Tampere (Finnland) in the category unplugged ensembles

Christopher Klatt: renewal of the Ernst-Abbe scholarship for his Dissertation "Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen und Triumphlieder zum deutschfranzösischen Einigungskrieg 1870/71

Sophia Martin (alumna): assistant for program planning for the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Philipp Quiring: Ernst-Abbe scholarship for the dissertation "Das Klavierkonzert der Neudeutschen Schule" (2 years)

Lisa Sohm: assistant manager and project assistant at the Klangerfinder GmbH & Co KG. Atelier for auditive communication in Stuttgart

Nastasia Sophie Tietze: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes promotion scholarship

Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt: Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt: Visiting Fellowships for Advanced international Researchers der University of Oxford (Hilary Term: January to March 2019)


2016 until 2019

Jannik Baeßler: part of the PRO MUSICA. Klassik für Hannover agency

Lena Bajer: eventmanager at the Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung

Steve Eichler: part of the Europäischen Jugendbildungs- und Jugendbegegnungsstätte Weimar (EJBW)

Daniela Gast: project manager of the Andreas Richter Cultural Consulting Team in Berlin

Marit Haferkamp: part of the communication department at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Jana Herkner: lecturer of the intendant at the Staatsoperette Dresden

Kirsten Heyerhoff: project coordinator at for Deutsch-Russischer Austausch (DRA) in Berlin

Veronika Hilbertová: part of the artist agency MünchenMusik

Prof. Dr. Steffen Höhne: part of the culture and literature panel of the Austrian and Hungarian academy of science 2019

Laura Ohlig: voluntary for event management at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin

Katharina Peters: part of the artist office at the Staatsoper Stuttgart

Daniela Rück: Touring & Dance Associate Europe at the artist agency IMG Artistsin Hannover

Miriam Sasserath: business manager and communication at the Theater Münster

Tabea Schleinitz: DAAD language assistant at the Adam Mickiewicz-Universität in Poznan (Poland)

Jana Schmülling: junior consultant at Klenk & Hoursch Corporate & Brand Communications Hamburg

Marie-Louise Stille: assistant head of the OPUS 3 Artists artist agency in Berlin

Natazia Stoppenbach: assistant of the Junges Musiktheater in Hamburg

Bianca Wagner: head of the Sponsoring departmentr of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Lilian Wascher: junior project manager at feyka&herr in Freiburg, Breisgau

OBOE

2022

Hannah Baumann (class of Prof. M. Bäcker): Winner of the competition Let’s get digital in Vienna with her hybrid concert experiment Let’s play:connection loading, together with the ensemble Godot Komplex and the artist Ella Estrella

Marta Mestrovic (class of Prof. M. Bäcker): Won audition as principal oboist of the Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Zagreb

Alberto Rodriguez (class of Prof. M. Bäcker): Won audition as coordinated solo oboist of the Hof Symphony Orchestra (permanent position)


2021

Hannah Baumann (Prof. M. Bäcker): part of the TONALi stage academy


2017

Laura Bormann (Prof. M. Bäcker): assistant solo oboe at the Beethovenorchester Bonn (temporary contract)

Fanny Kloevekorn (Prof. M. Bäcker): solo oboe at the Estonian National Opera (permanent contract) as well as two special prices at the 4th Barbirolli International Oboe Festival and Competition in Great Britain: The Tertis Foundation Prize and The Faber Music Publishers Prize for the best performance of Collin Matthews "Figures Suspended"

Shaghayegh Shahrabi Farahani (Prof. M. Bäcker): Deutschlandstipendium of the HfM supported by Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH

Sachiko Uehara (Prof. M. Bäcker): assistant solo oboe at the Staatskapelle Weimar (temporary contract)


2016

Marie-Christine Becker (Prof. M. Bäcker): orchestra academy at the Komischen Oper Berlin from season 2016/17

Sachiko Uehara (Prof. M. Bäcker): orchestra academy at the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg from season 2016/17

ORGAN | CHURCH MUSIC

2023

Johanna Bergmann (class of Prof. M. Sturm): District choir master and organist in Crailsheim in the district of Schwäbisch Hall (Baden-Württemberg).

Fabian Kiupel (class of Prof. M. Sturm): Regional choir master and organist in Görlitz (Saxony)

Svenja Reis (class of Prof. M. Sturm): Choir master and organist of the parishes of Buttelstedt and Neumark (Thuringia)

Jakob Schönborn-Dietz (class of Prof. M. Sturm): Choir master and organist of the parishes Ohrdruf and Luisenthal (Thuringia)
 

2021

Jonas Dippon (Prof. M. Sturm): Herder-Förderpreis for his artwork „Kritische Wälder `21“ with Herder quotes, organcompositions and light and videoinstallations

Bogdan Reincke (Prof. M. Sturm): special price at the organ competition of the Günther Weber Foundation

Pascal Salzmann (alumnus, Prof. S. v. Kessel): choir master and organist at the evangelic church in Rheydt from februar 2022

Wenying Wu (Prof. M. Sturm): 1st price at the IAO-RCO Organ Playing Competition in Edinburgh (Scotland) as well as 2nd price at the 3rd International "László Spezzaferri" music competition in Verona (Italy) 


2020

Julia Raasch (Prof. M. Sturm & Prof. S. v. Kessel): Franz-Liszt-Price 2020 of the society of friends and supporters of the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar as well as assistant organist at the  city church St. Wenzel Naumburg (Hildebrandtorgel)


2019

Johanna Bergmann (Prof. B. Klapprott & Prof. S.v. Kessel): choir master and organist at the Sankt-Trinitatis-Kirche in Ohrdruf as well as for Luisenthal

Matthias Böcking (alumnus, Prof. M. Kapsner): teacher for music theory and piano at the Berufsfachschule für Musik Oberfranken in Kronach (permanent employment)

Cornelius Hofmann (Prof. M. Dreißig und Prof. J. Puschbeck): choir master and organist of the Pößnecker city church as wall as part of the artistic advisory of the Bachfest Ohrdruf-Gotha 2021

Julia Raasch (Prof. S. v. Kessel): Dame Gillian Weir Medal for the best performance of a single composition (Max Reger, Toccata a-Moll op. 80) at the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition 2019

Pascal Salzmann (alumnus, Prof. S. v. Kessel & Prof. J. Puschbeck): A-employment Stadtkantorat Waldbröl, church district An der Agger

Eszter Szedmák (Prof. B. Klapprott  Prof. S. v. Kessel): finalist and audience award at the international Messiaen organ competition in Lyon (France)

TROMBONE

2024

Hongyi Gu (class of Prof. C. Sprenger): Won audition with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken (bass trombone, temporary contract)

2023

Ivan Kondrashkow (class of Prof. C. Sprenger): Won auditions for the solo bass trombone in the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock as well as for the bass trombone in the Jena Philharmonie (temporary contract)

Alejandro Moreno (class of Prof. C. Sprenger): Won audition for the solo trombone in the spa orchestra of the municipality of Bad Füssing

Jonas Zietarski (class of Prof. C. Sprenger): 1st prize at the Lions Music Award 2023 of the district Saxony-Anhalt/Thuringia
 

2022

Julius Joachim (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful probation period as solo trombone at the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim

Ivan Kondrashkow (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg (bass trombone)

Jesus Medina Vallejo (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchesters Erfurt (bass trombone)


2020

Julius Joachim (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful audition for principal trombone at the Nationalorchester Mannheim

Felix Koch (Prof. C. Sprenger): 1st price at the intern competition of the music school Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students


2019

Alexis Gonzales (Prof. C. Sprenger): bass trombone at the Mittelsächsischen Theater und Philharmonie Freiberg (permanent employment)

Julius Joachim (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful auditions at the orchestra academy of the Komischen Oper Berlin and the Gürzenich-Orchesters Köln

Raul Benito Losantos (Prof. C. Sprenger): part of the orchestra academy of the Symphoniker Hamburg and assistant trombone player at the Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester (internship)

Hans-Peter Oberlander (Prof. C. Sprenger): solo trombone at the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt (permanent employment)

Linda Reinhardt (Prof. C. Sprenger): trombone player at the Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera (temporary contract)

Jesus Medina Vallejo (Prof. C. Sprenger): assistant trombine at the Jenaer Philharmonie

PERCUSSION

2024

Tomi Emilov (alumnus class Prof. M. Leoson): won an audition as a percussionist with the Hanover Federal Police Orchestra (permanent position)
 

2023

Martin Diaz (class of Prof. M. Leoson): Won auditions for the "Concertgebouworkest Young 2023", the international youth orchestra of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam (Netherlands), and the Dual Orchestra Academy Thuringia of the Jena Philharmonic and the Altenburg-Gera Theatre

José Vicente Doménech (class of Prof. M. Leoson): Won audition for the Dual Orchestra Academy Thuringia of the Jena Philharmonic and the Altenburg-Gera Theatre

Jean Carlos Rodriguez (class of Prof. M. Leoson): Won audition as Percussionist with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic (permanent position)

Marc Pérez Vercher (Alumnus class Prof. M. Leoson): Won audition as 1st percussionist of the Philharmonic Orchestra at the Cottbus State Theatre

Julia Schmitt (class of Prof. M. Leoson): Won audition for timpani / percussion in the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Coburg State Theater (internship)

Marcus Ziegler (class of Prof. M. Leoson): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar
 

2022

Julius Joachim (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful probation period as solo trombone at the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim

Ivan Kondrashkow (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg (bass trombone)

Jesus Medina Vallejo (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchesters Erfurt (bass trombone)


2020

Julius Joachim (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful audition for principal trombone at the Nationalorchester Mannheim

Felix Koch (Prof. C. Sprenger): 1st price at the intern competition of the music school Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students


2019

Alexis Gonzales (Prof. C. Sprenger): bass trombone at the Mittelsächsischen Theater und Philharmonie Freiberg (permanent employment)

Julius Joachim (Prof. C. Sprenger): successful auditions at the orchestra academy of the Komischen Oper Berlin and the Gürzenich-Orchesters Köln

Raul Benito Losantos (Prof. C. Sprenger): part of the orchestra academy of the Symphoniker Hamburg and assistant trombone player at the Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester (internship)

Hans-Peter Oberlander (Prof. C. Sprenger): solo trombone at the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt (permanent employment)

Linda Reinhardt (Prof. C. Sprenger): trombone player at the Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera (temporary contract)

Jesus Medina Vallejo (Prof. C. Sprenger): assistant trombine at the Jenaer Philharmonie

TRUMPET

2023

Marcos Acena Lagunas (class of Prof. U. Komischke): Won audition for the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España

Rui Yang (class of Prof. U. Komischke): Won audition as 1st solo trumpet of the Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra
 

2020

Keitaro Shimizu (alumnus Prof. U. Komischke): successful probation period as solo trumpet at the Royal Swedish Opera

Mark Sirok (Prof. U. Komischke): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt

Runa Takada (alumna, Prof. U. Komischke): successful probation period as 2nd trumpet at the Staatskapelle Weimar


2019

Alberto Romero Lopez (Tobias Hartel): 1st price at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia de Granada national competition (Spain)

Keitaro Shimizu (Alumnus Prof. U. Komischke): successful audition for solo trumpet at the Royal Swedish Opera
 
Runa Takada (Prof. U. Komischke): successful audition for solo trumpet at the Staatskapelle Weimar (permanent employment)

Rui Yang (Prof. U. Komischke): successful audition for 2nd trumpet at the Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera


2018

Deqin Li (Prof. U. Komischke): professor for trumpet at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Jiaqi Lu (Prof. U. Komischke): successful audition as trumpet at the HeBei Symphony Orchestra (China)

Runa Takada (Prof. U. Komischke): successful audition as assistant solo trumpetr at the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester (temporary contract)

TUBA

2023

Francisco Pedro Baptista (class R. Carvalhoso): 1st prize in the "Supérieur" category at the Antibes International Tuba Competition (France)

Rommel Alexander Guasumba Muñoz (class R. Carvalhoso): 2nd prize in the "Excellence" category at the Antibes International Tuba Competition (France)
 

2017

Yuki Aso (class Prof. W. Hilgers): successful audition at the orchestra of the Nationaltheater Mannheim (internship)

Robert Schulz (class Prof. W. Hilgers): successful audition for double bass tuba at the Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie

VIOLA

2024

Timon Knötzele (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
 

2023

Maike Brümmer (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition for the position of 1st solo viola in the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra (permanent position) 

Eike Coetzee (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Grand Prix of the International Szymon Goldberg Competition Colditz Castle 2023 

Lucas Freund (Alumnus class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition as solo violist of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra Chemnitz (permanent position) 

Ricarda Glöcker (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition for viola tutti at the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra (permanent position). 

Conrad Jacobshagen (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): 3rd prize at the International Szymon Goldberg Competition Colditz Castle 2023

Johanna Kegel (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

Timon Knötzele (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

Maria Körner (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition for a tutti position in the Staatskapelle Berlin (permanent position)

Paula Mengel (class of Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition for a tutti position in the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover (permanent position)

Luz Sanchez Suero (class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

Anne Wiechmann (Alumna class Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Won audition for the position of solo violist of the Staatskapelle Weimar (temporary contract)


2022

Gesine Hadulla (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as viola at the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra and scholarship of the Cusanuswerk

Christina Hanspach (geb. Voigt, Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as viola at the Staatskapelle Dresden (permamnent employment) 

Timon Knötzele (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as viola at the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra 

Martha Roske (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as viola at the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra

Caroline Zaunick (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as a member of the orchestra academy of the Sächsisches Sinfonieorchester Chemnitz as well as successful audition as viola at the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra


2021

Alicia Álvarez Lorduy (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as part of the orchestra academy of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Maurice Appelt (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): part of the orchestra academy at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Maike Brümmer (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as viola at the Beethoven Orchester Bonn (temporary contract)

Fabian Lindner (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful probation period as solo viola at the Hamburger Symphonikern 

Matthias Gallin (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as als substitute solo viola at the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin (permanent employment) 

Ricarda Glöckler (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): part of the der Giuseppe Sinopoli academy of the Staatskapelle Dresden

Johanna Kegel (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Timon Knötzele (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Yu-Ju Lai (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as solo Viola at the Anhaltinisches Orchester Dessau (permanent employment)

Paula Mengel (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. Dr. Leser): successful audition as part of the Mendelssohn-Orchestra academy of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig as well as successful audition dor the Villa Musica scholarship

Johann Pätzold (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Martha Roske (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): Hans und Eugenia Jütting-Stiftung-Scholarsahip 2021


2020

Eike Coetzee (Prof. D. Leser): 3rd price at the intern competition of the music school Schloss Belvedere as center of highly gifted students

Christina Hannsbach (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition for principal viola at the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen

Fabian Lindner (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): solo viola at the Hamburger Symphoniker (permanent employment)


2019

Henriette Mittag (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition for the Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg (permanent employment)


2018

Tania Cornejo (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition as principal viola at the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz (substitute)

Maria Jadziewicz (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): viola at the Magdeburgische Philharmonie at the Staatstheater Magdeburg (permanent employment) as well as a successful audition for the Gewandhausorchester zu Leipzig (substitute)

Jonathan Kliegel (Prof. E. W. Krüger und Prof. D. Leser): successful audition for the principal viola at the Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg

Carolin Krüger (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): successful audition for principal viola at the Staatskapelle Schwerin (permanent employment)

Yuju Lai (Prof. E. W. Krüger und Prof. D. Leser): part of the Kurt Masur Academy of the Dresdner Philharmonie as well as internship at the Göttinger Symphonieorchester

Fabian Lindner (Prof. E. W. Krüger und Prof. D. Leser): viola at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (annual contract)

Alicia Álvarez Lorduy (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): part of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Paula Mengel (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Martha Roske (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): substitut at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Christina Voigt (Prof. E. W. Krüger und Prof. D. Leser): successful audition for the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg (permanent employment)

Caroline Zaunick (Prof. E. W. Krüger & Prof. D. Leser): substitut at the Staatskapelle Weimar

VIOLIN

2024

Klara-Justine Heil (class of Prof. Kathrin ten Hagen): scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V

Pauline Hoffmann (Class Prof. Dr F. Eichhorn): Winning an audition for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra including a tour with Kirill Petrenko, scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V

Charlotte Thiele (class of Prof. Dr F. Eichhorn): Guest concertmaster with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Oper Berlin
 

2023

Sona Arzumanyan (class L. Lucca): Won audition for the 1st violins in the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (temporary contract)

Izabella Dicu (class Prof. M. Sima): Won audition for the Dual Orchestra Academy Thuringia of the Jena Philharmonic and the Theatre Altenburg-Gera

Melina Duttge (Alumna class Prof. M. Sima): Passed probationary period as deputy principal of the 2nd violins of the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra (permanent position)

Pablo Fernández (Class Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition as section leader of the 2nd violins (temporary contract) in the Philharmonic Orchestra Altenburg Gera

Elisabeth Gebhardt (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition for 2nd violin tutti in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne (permanent position)

Nikita Geller (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition for the 2nd violins in the MDR Symphony Orchestra (temporary contract)

Vincent Hamann (class of Prof. A. Hartmann): Won auditions for the position of deputy concertmaster of the 2nd  violins at the Meinigen State Theater (permanent position), for the 1st violins in the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen and for the position of 2nd concertmaster in the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra (temporary contract)

Susanna Herrmann (class of Prof. A. Lehmann): Permanent member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie after passing audition and first working phase as well as substitute in the Staatskapelle Weimar

Soo-Jin Rebecca Hirsch (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Substitute of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Pauline Hoffmann (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition for a loan extension of Philipp Augustin's violin (Staufen circa 2018) at the 30th competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund at the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben

Hannah Kim (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 4th prize at the International Violin Competition in Mirecourt (France)

Diana Kostadinova (class of Prof. A. Hartmann): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Sarah Köster (class of Prof. A. Lehmann): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Elisaweta Krasnowa (class L. Lucca): Won audition for an internship in the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and won audition for 1st violin tutti in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg (temporary contract)

Katarina Kutnar (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Passed probationary year as 1st concertmaster of the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra in Croatia (permanent position)

May Pitchayapa Lueangtawikit (class of Prof. Hartmann): Won audition for a position in the 2nd violins of the HR- Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt (permanent position)

Elisabeth Marasch (Alumna class Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Member of the 2nd violins in the MDR Symphony Orchestra (permanent position) and teaching position for violin (school music) at the University of Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig

Julius Meier (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Passed his probationary year as deputy 1st concertmaster in the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Vorpommern Theatre (permanent position)

Maasa Morimoto (class of Prof. M. Wollong): Substitute in the 1st violins of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Rodrigo Pandorfa (class of Prof. K. ten Hagen): Won audition for an internship in the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen

Rosa Pantaenius (class of Prof. A. Lehmann): Substitute of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Domenico Pedone (class Prof. A. Eichhorn): Won audition for the 1st violins in the orchestra "Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini" in Parma (Italy, permanent position)

Alicja Ptasiński (class of Prof. A. Eichhorn): Member of the Dual Orchestra Academy Thuringia (Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra Altenburg Gera)

Anna Salzmann (née Ryzhova, class of Prof. M. Sima): Passed probationary year for 1st violin with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker Krefeld/Mönchengladbach

Müge Sak (class of Prof. K. ten Hagen): Member of the Orchestra Academy of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Johannes Tentschert (class of Prof. M. Sima): Won audition for the Orchestra Academy of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Annekatrin Tharan (class L. Lucca): Won audition for the 2nd violins in the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra (temporary contract)

Charlotte Thiele (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition for the concertmaster position in the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Leonard Toschev (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Grommek Special Prize at the Violin Master Classes of the Kronberg Festival

Johannes Wendel (class of Prof. A. Lehmann): Won audition for the position of deputy principal 2nd violins in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz (temporary contract)

Filip Zaykov (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition as concertmaster of the Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands, 3rd prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition as well as the Hans Gál Prize of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Villa Musica Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate with his "Trio Incendio"

Stefan Zientek (class of Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Won audition as 1st concertmaster of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra at the Hanover State Opera House

Nico Zurawski (class of Prof. A. Hartmann): Won audition as violinist for the Staatsphilharmonie Nuremberg (temporary contract)
 

2022

Mime Angermaier (young student in the class of Prof. A. Lehmann): won an audition for a violin by violin maker Jörg Wunderlich and a violin bow by bow maker Michael Dölling on loan for two years at the violin competition "Rust Prize" in Dessau

Anna Bock (Prof. A. Hartmann): successful audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Halle as well as successful audition as substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Larissa Cidlinsky (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): master violin of Lupot as loan at the contest of the "Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds" of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, prize of the string manufacturer Pirastro at at master class with Vadim Gluzman in Munich (Germany) and scholarship of the "Deutsche Musikwettbewerb"

Olivia Croitoru (Prof. A. Eichhorn): successful audition for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and member of the academy of Brixen Classics

Izabella Dicu (Prof. M. Sima): successful audition for the 1st violins at the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen (internship)

Melina Duttge (Alumna Prof. M. Sima): successful audition as deputy principal of the 2nd violins of the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra (permanent employment)

Pablo Fernández Gonzales (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): won audition as concertmaster of the 1st violins in the Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt (temporary contract) as well as principal 1st violin at the orchestra of the Theater Gera/Altenburg (temporary contract)

Antonia Fischer (class of Prof. A.-K. Lindig): successful audition for the 1st violins in the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin (permanent position)

Vincent Hamann (Prof. A. Hartmann): part of the 1st violins at the Staatskapelle Weimar (temporary contract)

Elisaweta Krasnova (L. Lucca): successful audition for a one-year internship in the 2nd violins of the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen

Katarina Kutnar (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for the position of 1st concertmaster in the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra in Croatia (permanent position)

Julia Lehnert (Music High School Schloss Belvedere, class of Prof. A.-K. Lindig): 1st prize at the violin promotion competition of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung in Dessau incl. a master violin on loan from the foundation for two years

Julius Maier (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): First Deputy Concertmaster in the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Vorpommern Theatre (Stralsund/Greifswald, permanent engagement)

Anna Matz (Alumna Prof. Dr. Friedemann Eichhorn): assistant principal at the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (permanent employment)

Aaron Müller (Prof. A. Hartmann): successful auditions for the principal 2nd violin at the Duisburger Philharmoniker (temporary contract), for the 2nd violins at the Staatskapelle Weimar (temporary contract) as well as fo the 2nd violins of the Bamberger Symphoniker (temporary contract)

Rosa Neßling (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): passed probationary year as assistant principal at the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau (permanent employment) 

Domenico Pedone (Prof. K. ten Hagen): successful audition for the 1st violins at the Hofer Symphoniker (permanent engagement) as well as internship at the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

Alicja Ptasiński (Prof. A. Eichhorn): successful audition for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and academy member of the Moritzburg Festival 2022

Alina Riegel (Prof. M. Sima): Passed probationary year as a member of the 2nd violins in  the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg

Müge Sak (Prof. K. ten Hagen): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar as well as internship at the Brandenburger Symphoniker

Anna Salzmann (née Ryzhova, Prof. M. Sima): successful auditions for 1st violin with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker (Krefeld/Mönchengladbach) and 2nd violin with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen (permanent positions)

Anna Zaubzer (L. Lucca): successful audition for the Ticino Musica Festival Orchestra 

Nico Zurawski (Prof. A. Hartmann): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg


2021

Sona Arzumanyan (L. Lucca): successful audition for the Mendelssohn-Orchestra academy of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Larissa Cidlinsky (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): special prize for the fbest interpretation of a french sonata at the International violin competition in Mirecourt (France)

Olivia Croitoru (Prof. A. Eichhorn): successful audition as substitute for the 2nd violin at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Lina Juknevičiute (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Grand Prix at the 11th International Bylas Dvarionas Competition for Young Pianists and violinists (Lithuania)

Hyojeong Kim (Alumna, Prof. A. Lehmann): part of the 2nd violins of the Staatsorchester Hannover (temporary contract)

Woohee Lee (center of highly gifted students, Prof. A. Lehmann): Freunde Junger Musiker Kassel e.V. scholarship

Julius Maier (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): part of the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Carla Inés Marrero Martínez (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Manfred-Grommek prize of the international violin master classes of the Kronberg Academy 

Rosa Neßling (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for assistant principal at the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau (permanent employment) and successful audition for the Villa Musica scholarship

May Pitchayapa Lueangtawikit (Prof. A. Hartmann): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the hr-Sinfonieorchesters 

Alicja Ptasiński (Prof. A. Eichhorn): successful audition for the 2nd violin at the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt as well as successful audition for the 2nd violin at the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen (internship)

Alina Riegel (Alumna, Prof. M. Sima): part of the 2nd violins at the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg (permanent employment)

Sofia Sakharova (Prof. A. Lehmann): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin 

Anoush Seferian (Alumna, Prof. A. Hartmann & Prof. A. Lehmann): teacher for violin at the Musikschule Meiningen (permanent employment)

Johannes Tentschert (Prof. M. Sima): successful audition for the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Anna Teumer (L. Lucca): successful audition for the 1st violoins at the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg (temporary contract)

Charlotte Thiele (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for the Villa Musica scholarship

Felicitas Wehmschulte (Alumna, Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn und Prof. G. Süßmuth): successful audition for the 2nd violins at the Staatskapelle Weimar (permanent employment) 

Johannes Wendel (Prof. A. Lehmann): part of the 1st violoins at the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart (temporary contract)

Nico Zurawski (Prof. A. Hartmann): part of the Oorchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchesters Erfurt 


2020

Franz Berlin (Alumnus, Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): principal at the Philharmonischen Orchester Bremerhaven

Anastasia Chabounia (Prof. M. Wollong): part of the 1st violins at the Hofer Symphonikern

Larissa Cidlinsky (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): part of the TONALi-Akademie 2020

Anna Gottschlich (Prof. K. ten Hagen): scholarship of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V.

Yuna Ha (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 1st prize at the international Rubinstein-Wettbewerb in Düsseldorf as well as "Hans Gál-Preis" of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz and the Villa Musica with her Esmé Quartett

Rosa Hagendorf (Prof. K. ten Hagen): scholarship of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar e.V.

Charlotte Krämer (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful probation period for 1st violoin at the MDR-Sinfonieorchester

Katarina Kutnar (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): part of the TONALi-Akademie 2020

Juwui Lee (Prof. K. ten Hagen): internship at the Staatsorchester Braunschweig

Woohee Lee (center of highly gifted students, Prof. A. Lehmann): violin of Enrico Marchetti (Italy) as loan at the competition of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg

Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig: part of the head of the principal conference of the german universities for performing art (RKM) and head of the performance committee for mucic competitions of the RKM (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and D-bü)

Charlotte Sosa (Prof. K. ten Hagen): winner of the Concerto Competition and performance at the Talent Masters Orchestra at the Talent Music Summer Festival in Verona

Charlotte Tauber (Prof. K. ten Hagen as well as Master Kulturmanagement): project manager of fundraising at the Gewandhaus Leipzig

Charlotte Thiele (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): part of the TONALi-Akademie 2020

Viola Wasser (Prof. A. Lehmann): teacher for violin at the Max-Reger-Musikschule Meiningen

Stefan Zientek (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for principal of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester


2019

Theresa Albiez (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): one year internship at the Staatsorchester Braunschweig

LauraBrandes (L. Lucca): part of the der 2nd violins at the Orchester des Pfalztheaters Kaiserslautern (temporary contract)

David Castro-Balbi (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Manhattan Concert Artist Award at the Manhattan International Music Competition

Larissa Cidlinsky (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 2nd prize at the International violin competition Dinu Lipatti in Bucharest

Melina Duttge (Prof. M. Sima): part of the orchestra academy of the Hamburger Symphoniker from season 2019/20

Roza Lusine Dzhavadyan (Prof. A. Lehmann): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Antonia Fischer (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): part of the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Nikita Geller (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): scholarship of the PE-Förderungen für Studierende der Musik e.V. Mannheim

Olga Jemeljanowa (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): part of the der 1st violins at the Jenaer Philharmonie (permanent employment)

Hyojeong Kim (Prof. A. Lehmann): successful audition for the orchestra academy at the NDR-Radiophilharmonie Hannover

Sarah Köster (Prof. A. Lehmann): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Charlotte Krämer (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for the 1st violins at the MDR Sinfonieorchester (permanent employment)

Albert Kutz (Prof. M. Sima): part of the der orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Halle from season 2019/20

Juhwui Lee (Prof. K. ten Hagen): 1st violin at the Anhaltinische Philharmonie Dessau (internship)

Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig: part of the Landesmusikrat Thüringen

Maasa Morimoto (Prof. K. ten Hagen-Riesenberg): won the Concerto Competition at the Talent Music Summer Festival Brescia (Italy)

Annabel Nolte (Prof. K. ten Hagen-Riesenberg): one year internship at the SWR Symphonieorchester

Eleonora Piraga (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): one year internship at the Staatsorchester Kassel

Anna Ryzhova (Prof. M. Sima): 2nd Violin at the Jenaer Philharmonie (temporary contract)

Laura Schäfer (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): principal 2nd violin at the Philharmonisches Orchester of the Landestheater Coburg (permanent employment)

Franziska Stemmer (center of highly gifted students, Prof. A. Lehmann): Sparkassenstiftung Weimar as well as Weimarer Land scholarship

Lisa Storck (Prof. M. Sima): substitute at the Jenaer Philharmonie

Sunny Tae (Alumna, Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): assistant principal violin at the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in South Corea

Johannes Tentschert (Prof. M. Sima): substitute at the Jenaer Philharmonie

Anna Daniela Teumer (L. Lucca): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatsphilharmonie Nuernberg and for the orchestra academy of the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt

Viola Wasser (Prof. A. Lehmann): successful audition for an internship at the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

Felicitas Wehmschulte (Alumna, Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn und Prof. G. Süßmuth): part of the 1st violins at the Staatskapelle Weimar (temporary contract)

Silke Weller (Prof. A. Lehmann): internship at the NDR-Radiophilharmonie Hannover

Stefan Zientek (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): part of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes


2018

Theresa Albiez (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Sona Arzumanyan (L. Lucca): 3rd prize at the Classics String International violin competition in Riga

Paula Borggrefe (center of highly gifted students, Prof. A.-K. Lindig): 1st prize at the Rust-Preis 2018 and the Violine-Förderwettbewerb of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung what includes a Sebastian Schade violin for two years

Laura Brandes (L. Lucca): internship at the 2nd violins of the Orchester des Pfalztheaters Kaiserslautern

Larissa Cidlinsky (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): special prize for the best Bach interpretation as well as special prize for the best german participant at the International Andrea Postacchini Competition in Fermo (Italy) as well as young talent award of the county Rottal-Inn

Antonia Fischer (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Marlin Flagmansk (young student, Vor Prof. A.-K. Lindig): Klaus Schlegel violin for two years the Rust-Preis 2018

Chiara-Marie Gaebelein (center of highly gifted students, O. Adler): 1st prize with honor at the 13th International Ars Nova Competition in Triest (Italy)

Nikita Geller (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Villa Musica scholarship as well as an italian master violin by Sanctus Seraphin as a loan at the audition of the Villa Musica-Stipendiat*innen

Yuna Ha (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 1st prize and three special prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition with her "Esmé Quartet" as well as HSBC-Preis 2018 of the Festivals Aix-en-Provence as well as a prize of the Possehl-Stiftung Lübeck with her "Esmé Quartet"

Johannes Hupach (Alumnus, Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for assistant principal violin at the Staatskapelle Weimar (permanent employment)

Olga Jemeljanowa (Prof. A.-K. Lindig): part of the der orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Hilde Jentsch (center of highly gifted students, Prof. A.-K. Lindig): Sebastian Schade violin for two years at the Rust-Preis 2018

Lilit Khachatryan (L. Lucca): 2nd violin at the Hofkapelle Meiningen (permanent employment)

Hyojeong Kim (Prof. A. Lehmann): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Charlotte Kraemer (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 1st violin at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (temporary contract)

Katarina Kutnar (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): 1st prize at the Darko Lukić Competition in Croatia together with Ivan Galić (piano) as well as prize for the best recitation together with Katarina Krpan (piano) as well as special prize for the best interpretation of the composition "Three short tales from the blind forest" by Berislav Šipuš as well as one year scholarship of the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD)

Woohee Lee (center of highly gifted students,  Prof. A. Lehmann): 1st prize and special prize at the international competition 3rd Rising Stars Grand Prix 2018 in Berlin

Julia Lehnert (Center of highly gifted students, Prof. A.-K. Lindig): Eckard Seidel violin for two years at the Rust-Preis 2018

JooMi Lim (Prof. M. Sima): successful audition for the 2nd violins at the Jenaer Philharmonie (temporary contract) and 1st violins at the Thüringer Symphonikern Saalfeld – Rudolstadt (permanent employment)

Carla Marrero Martinez (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition for the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin

Anna Mehlin (Alumna  Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful probation period for the 2nd violins at the Berliner Philharmoniker (permanent employment)

Annabel Nolte (Prof. K. ten Hagen): substitute at the Staatskapelle Weimar

Alina Riegel (Prof. M. Sima): 1st violin at the Staatsorchester Kassel (temporary contract)

Anna Ryzhova (Prof. M. Sima): substitute at the Jenaer Philharmonie

Laura Schäfer (Prof. A.K. Lindig): part of the orchestra academy of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Sarah Sew (Alumna,  Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): professor for violin and Head of Strings and Chamber Music at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin (Ireland)

Lara Siefert (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): successful audition als principal 2nd violin at the orchestra of the Nationaltheaters Mannheim (permanent employment)

János Mátyás Stark (Prof. A. Lehmann): 3rd prize at the international Bartók World Composing Competition with his composition "Toccata" for piano as well as three special prizes as well as Kamara Akadémia Egyesület scholarship

Franziska Stemmer (center of highly gifted students, Prof. A. Lehmann): 1st prize at the 12th International Karl-Adler-Competition in Stuttgart in the category III as well as 3rd Mitteldeutscher Jugendmusikpreis

Charlotte Tauber (Prof. K. ten Hagen): project manager sponsoring and ads at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (temporary contract)

Anna Teumer (L. Lucca): substitute at the 1st violins of the Jenaer Philharmonie as well as successful audition for a Cusanuswerks scholarship

Stefan Zientek (Prof. Dr. F. Eichhorn): Villa Musica scholarship as well as an italian master violin by Vincenzo Panormo as a loan at the audition Villa Musica-Stipendiat*innen

VIOLONCELLO

2023

Luka Coetzee (class of Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st prize at the VII. International Paula Cello Competition in Finland as well as Scholarship of the Mozart Society Dortmund with concert sponsorship for three years

Constantin Heise (class of Prof. W. E. Schmidt): Scholarship of the German Music Competition 2023 and admission to the concert promotion programme  

Alexey Stadler (alumnus class of Prof. W. E. Schmidt): Substitute professor for violoncello at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre

Michael Wehrmeyer (class of Prof. W. E. Schmidt): Scholarship of the German Music Competition 2023 and admission to the concert promotion programme
 

2022

Joel Blido (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 2nd prize at the violoncello competitionTon & Erklärung with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover

Luka Coetzee (class of Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st prize at the "Pablo Casals International Award" in El Vendrell (Spain) and 2nd prize at the International Dotzauer Competition for Young Cellists in Dresden (Germany)

Moritz Huemer (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition for the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and 3rd prize at the violoncello competitionTon & Erklärung with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover

Ivan Skanavi (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st prize at the International Cello Competition "Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann" as well as special prize for the best interpretation of a commissioned work by Jörg Widmann, also special prize at the violoncello competition "Ton & Erklärung" with the with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover

Sul Yoon (Prof. W. E. Schmitt): Finalist and Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Bruxelles 2022


2021

Christoph Croisé (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): part of Julian Lloyd Webber’s Rising Stars series at the british radio station Classic FM

Sebastian Fritsch (Alumnus, Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition as pricipal violoncello at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Moritz Huemer (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition for a Villa Musica scholarship

Benjamin Pas (Prof. M.-L. Leihenseder-Ewald): part of the orchestra acedemy of the Deutschen Oper Berlin     

Ildiko Szabo (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): part of the Longlist of the Priceder Deutschen Schallplattenkritik with her CD "Heritage"

Friedrich Thiele (Alumnus, Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition as principal violoncello at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden


2019

Friederike Luise Arnholdt (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): winner of the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben as well as a Stefano Scarampella violoncello as a loan (Mantua, about 1900)

Joel Blido (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): special prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and scholarship at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2019 as well as selected for germanys national "Konzerte Junger Künstler"

Santiago Cañón-Valencia (Alumnus, Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 2nd prize and silver medal at the international Tschaikowsky competition in Moskau and St. Petersburg (Russia)

Sebastian Fritsch (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st prize and winner of the audience award of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2019 as well as 1st prize "Mendelssohn-Preis" at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb 2019

Wassily Gerassimez (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition for principal violoncello at the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker

Damian Klein (center of highly gifted students, Prof. T. Stolzenburg): 3rd prize at the intern competition of the class 11sp of the music school Schloss Belvedere

Ildikó Szabó (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): special prize for the best interpretation of the committed peace "Priceder Elsa-Wera-Arnold-Stiftung" at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb 2019 in Berlin as well as winner at the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond competition of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, a Violoncello by Antonio Sgarbi as a loan (Rom, 1894)

Friedrich Thiele (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 2nd prize and audition award at the 68. International Musikwettbewerb der ARD in the category Violoncello in Munichas well as a special prize for the best interpretation of the committed peace Like Ella by Martin Smolka as well as winner at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2019; 2nd prize and audition award at the international instrumental competition Markneukirchen 2019; full year sponsorship of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben

Valentino Worlitzsch (Alumnus Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition for principal violoncello at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig


2018

Friederike Luise Arnholdt (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition at the 26th competition of the Deutschen Musikinstrumentenfonds in Hamburg for a loan period extension for a Stefano Scarampella violoncello (Mantua, about 1900)

Sebastian Fritsch (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st price and audience award at the TONALi-Competition in Hamburg

Constantin Heise (young student,  Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st price at the Agustin Aponte International Music Competition (Spain) as well as a successful audition for a loan period extension for a Stephan von Baehr violoncello, Paris 2009 at the 26th competition of the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond in Hamburg

Zuzanna Sosnowska (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): Successful audition for the Verlängerung der Leihfrist für ein Violoncello von Stephan von Baehr, Paris 2012 (Treugabe aus Privatbesitz) at the 26th competition of the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond in Hamburg

Valentino Worlitzsch (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): successful audition as principal violoncello of the Sinfonieorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks (hr-sinfonieorchester)


2017

Márton Braun (Prof. M.-L. Leihenseder-Ewald): substitute at the Jenaer Philharmonie as well as 3rd price at the international competition Talents for Europe in Dolny Kubín (Slovakia)

Santiago Cañón-Valencia (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 3rd price – Count de Launoit Prize – at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (Belgium) as well as Premio Monini at the 60. Festival di Spoleto (Italy)

Constantin Heise (young student, Prof. W. E. Schmidt): won a Stephan von Baehr violoncello (Paris, 2009) as a loan at the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond competition

Mirijam Korsowsky (Prof. T. Stolzenburg): Deutschlandstipendium of the HfM supported by Dr.-Ing. Hans-Reinhard Hunger

Maciej Kułakowski (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): won a Charles Gaillard violoncello (Paris, 1867) as a loan at the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond competition

Zuzanna Sosnowska (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): won a Stephan von Baehr Violoncello (Paris, 2012) as a loan at the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond competition

Friedrich Thiele (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 1st price at the Wettbewerb des Kulturkreises der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Munich

Camille Thomas (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): "artist of the year" award 2016 in the category "young soloist" as well as first cellist signing an exclusive contract with the label "Deutsche Grammophon" as well as a concert exam "with honor"

Valentino Worlitzsch (Prof. W. E. Schmidt): 2nd price and audience award at the Wettbewerb des Kulturkreises der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Munich

Raphael Zinner (Prof. T. Stolzenburg): 3rd price at the 7th international David Popper Violoncello competition in Hungary in the category IV