"Rome Prize" for HfMT composers

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Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth has announced the scholarship holders for the residencies at the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo ("Rome Prize"), Casa Baldi and the German Study Center in Venice. For the "Rome Prize", which includes a ten-month stay at the Villa Massimo from September 2025, the jury selected, among others, HfMT alumnus Sina Fani Sani from Prof. Gordon Kampe's composition class.
With these residencies in Italy, the German government enables highly talented artists from Germany to further their artistic development. The scholarships are financed entirely from the federal budget for culture and media.

Vita
The composer Sina Fani Sani was born in Isfahan (Iran) and initially studied classical guitar with Golfam Khayam at the University of Arts in Tehran. From 2017 to 2020 he studied composition with Claus Kühnl and Annesley Black at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main and from 2020 to 2023 he completed his master's degree in composition with Gordon Kampe at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg. His interests include various aspects of scenic and performative approaches in artistic practice. In his often theatrical works, he creates different psychological states for the performers in order to treat them as characters in their own right; in particular, he explores the similarities and differences between language and music by dealing with different levels of spoken and sung texts. He is a winner of the opera competition NEUE SZENEN VI of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and has received numerous scholarships such as the Bach Prize Scholarship of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the scholarship of the Deutsche Bank Foundation and admission to the Akademie Musiktheater heute, the scholarships of the Deutscher Musikrat and the akademie kontemporär as well as the DAAD Leistungsstipendium. Performers of his music include the ensemble KNM-Berlin, the ensemble LUX:NM and the duo Zöllner-Roche.