Hamburg rules! Further success for HfMT composition classes

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Yixie Shen (Konzertexamen Composition) - and Sebastian Zaczek, who will begin his Bachelor's degree in Composition in the winter semester, have won a composition competition for two organs and ensemble as part of the ÜBERGÄNGE festival in Helmstedt. The subsequent concert will be performed by the ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART and the organists Kerstin Petersen and Dominik Susteck and will take place on November 7 in the church of St. Marienberg in Helmstedt.

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Yixie Shen (born 1993, CN) is a composer living in Hamburg. She is currently nominated for the Gaudeamus Award (2024) and is the winner of the Alexander International Music Award (2023) from junge norddeutsche philharmonie. She has received scholarships from "akademie kontemporär" (2021/2023), among others.
Her works have been (first) performed by various orchestras, ensembles, soloists and festivals in Germany, France, Spain, South Africa and China, including at the Elbphilharmonie, NDR Hamburg, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble Resonanz, IEMA-Ensemble, Ensemble LUX:NM, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Hamburger Ratsmusik, as well as at the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival and Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth.
After completing her bachelor's degree in composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she joined Prof. Fredrik Schwenk's class at the HfMT Hamburg as an exchange student in 2018, where she completed her master's degree and is now completing her concert exam.

Sebastian Zaczekborn in Hamburg in 2002, started playing the piano at the age of seven, and shortly afterwards he made his first attempts at composition. He recently completed his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Hamburg and aims to go on to study composition. In the years 2022-2024, Sebastian won two national prizes and a sponsorship award in the national competition Jugend Komponiert, and is the second prizewinner of the Gustav Mahler Composition Prize 2024. Since March 2022, he has also been a member of the jury for the "Follow My Score" competitions of Score Follower, an organization that is particularly committed to broad access to new music on the Internet.