DAAD prize for nature-loving composer

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The DAAD Prize 2024 from the circle of HfMT students goes to Dominic Wills. Born in Cambridge in 1999, the musician and academic studied Master's Composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, which was supported by a full DAAD scholarship. He had previously completed a Bachelor's degree in Musicology at the University of Manchester. His Bachelor's thesis on Rachmaninoff was awarded the prestigious Dean's Award for Academic Achievement.
Dominic has taken part in two unpaid conservation internships in nature reserves in northern Germany over the past two years. His tasks there have included landscape management, bird counting, area management, public relations and environmental education for school groups. Among other things, he has led bird, mudflat and nature tours and worked at family days, where he used innovative methods to make nature conservation accessible to families.

DAAD Prize
The DAAD Prize, which is endowed with €1,000 per university and has been awarded for more than ten years, is intended to help put faces to the large numbers of international students at German universities and connect them with stories. This makes it clear that every single international student takes a piece of Germany back home with them and leaves something of themselves in Germany - an enrichment for both sides.
The students who have received such an award through their respective host university stand for their fellow students from all over the world. They are future partners for Germany in business, politics and science.