HfMT alumna joins the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

The content on this page was translated automatically.

Christa-Maria Stangorra, who completed a bachelor's degree in Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender's violin class at the HfMT Hamburg from 2013-2018, will be a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker from May 2022 after winning an audition

Christa-Maria Stangorra (born 1995 in Minden/Westphalia) received her first lessons at the age of four, later continued her training in London, Hamburg (Tanja Becker-Bender), Sion and Florence (Pavel Vernikov) and has been studying with Ning Feng at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin since October 2018. Since January 2021, she has been a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker (mentor: Krzysztof Polonek), a year later she won a permanent position in the same orchestra.

The 10th International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover awarded her a scholarship and presented her in its concert series "Guest in Lower Saxony". As a member of the LGT Young Soloists, she has performed at venues including the Tonhalle Zurich, the Rheingau Music Festival and Victoria Hall in Singapore and has already recorded several CDs for Sony/ RCA Red Seal. The GWK prizewinner and scholarship holder of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" and the "Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz" has performed several times at London's Wigmore Hall, the Ateneo Madrid and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2018, she was an academy guest at the Zermatt Music Festival of the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker and performed at the Thy Chamber Music Festival Denmark and the Clasclas Festival in Vilagarcia together with artists such as Máté Szücs, Guy Braunstein, Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko. She received further impulses at master classes with Daniel Barenboim (WEDO chamber music project), Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Igor Ozim and Vadim Gluzman. She has performed as a soloist with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot, the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock, the Darmstadt State Orchestra, the Ensemble Resonanz and the Asian Chamber Orchestra Hong Kong. Highlights of recent seasons include engagements with the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn (tour of Germany with Schumann's Violin Concerto) and with the Slovakian Philharmonic Orchestra Bratislava at the KKL Lucerne.

At the 26th competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund, Christa-Maria Stangorra won a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda from 1823 from the Federal Republic of Germany. She plays "Evah Pirazzi Gold" strings with the kind support of Pirastro GmbH.