Great commitment
Violin student Friedrich Borggrefe is the 2025 Franz Liszt Prize winner of the University's Support association
In the spirit of Franz Liszt and his generous commitment to fellow musicians and fellow human beings, the Support association of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar awards the Franz Liszt Prize, worth 2,000 euros, every year. The prize recognizes both excellent academic achievement and the social commitment of the students.
Violin student Friedrich Borggrefe has been selected as the 2025 Franz Liszt Prize winner. He will receive his prize during the matriculation ceremony for the 2025/26 winter semester on Monday, October 13, at 6:00 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus of the Weimar Music university.
“Although Friedrich Borggrefe has only been in Weimar for two years, he has managed to get involved in many ways both inside and outside the university,” explains the chairwoman of the Support association, Prof. Ulrike Rynkowski-Neuhof, who will also give the laudatory speech.
Friedrich Borggrefe was born in Halle (Saale) in 2005. He has been receiving violin lessons from Prof. Andreas Hartmann since 2019. He has performed in numerous school concerts in central Germany with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and played a solo concert with the Staatskapelle Halle at the Halle Opera House.
In his first semester of his bachelor's degree at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar in the fall of 2024, he received a scholarship from the association “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Weimar,” which brings music to hospitals, retirement homes, and prisons, among other places.
During the 2024/25 season, Friedrich Borggrefe was a substitute in the Staatskapelle Weimar and played as deputy concertmaster of the university orchestra in the performance of Benjamin Britten's “War Requiem” in the Weimarhalle. He is currently in his fifth semester studying violin as his main subject in Prof. Andreas Hartmann's class. Borggrefe is also involved in various university committees and is active in local politics in his spare time.
Further information: www.musik-foerdern.de
[8 October 2025]