"Baum Quartett" receives Berenberg Culture Prize

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Scholarships go to the recorder player Lilli Pätzold and the organist Nicola Procaccini.

This year's Berenberg Culture Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, goes to the "Baum Quartett" from South Korea, who study at the HfMT. Around 350 guests attended last night's award ceremony in the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie.

Sun Shin (violin), Onyou Kim (violin), Daekyu Han (viola) and Hang-Oh Cho (cello) from Seoul presented the first movement of Franz Schubert's string quartet in D minor "Death and the Maiden" in the presence of the university president Prof. Elmar Lampson and the main professor Niklas Schmidt. Hermann Rauhe, member of the Board of Trustees of the Berenberg Bank Foundation since 1990, who gave the laudatory speech, emphasized: "The Baum Quartet impresses the audience with its virtuoso interplay and allows the different timbres of the instruments to blend together". Nicola Procaccini (organ & harpsichord) and Lilli Pätzold (recorder) were also delighted to have the opportunity to perform in the Elbphilharmonie. The President of the University, Elmar Lampson, paid tribute to the two HfMT Master's students in his personal speech and also thanked their professors Wolfgang Zerer and Peter Holtslag.

Caption: Hang-Oh Cho; Sun Shin; Dr. Hans-Walter Peters (Berenberg Bank); Onyou Kim; Daekyu Han