Success for HfMT violinist

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Christa-Maria Stangorra, who completed her Bachelor's degree at the HfMT Hamburg in Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender's class in 2018, was accepted into the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2021.

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The German-Latvian violinist Christa-Maria Stangorra (*1995, Minden/ Westf.) received her first lessons at the age of four, later studied in London, Hamburg, Sion and Florence (Pavel Vernikov) and completed her Bachelor's degree in the class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender in Hamburg in summer 2018 with top marks. Since October 2018, she has been studying for a master's degree with Ning Feng at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and was accepted into the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2021.
She has attended masterclasses with Daniel Barenboim (WEDO chamber music project), Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Igor Ozim and Vadim Gluzman, among others. In September 2018, Christa-Maria was a guest academist at the Zermatt Music Festival of the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Her awards include 1st Federal Prize at Jugend Musiziert 2013 (violin solo) with WESPE Special Prize, 1st Prize at the nationwide university competition of the Peter Pirazzi Foundation in Frankfurt, 1st Prize at the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg, the "GWK Music Prize 2014" in Münster, 3rd Prize at the International Queen Sophie Charlotte Competition in Mirow and the Youth Promotion Prize at the International Violin Competition "Leopold Mozart" in Augsburg. The 10th International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hanover 2018 awarded her a scholarship and presented her in its concert series "Guest in Lower Saxony". In 2016, she was accepted into the "Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz" foundation and as a member of the "LGT Young Soloists", whose concert tours have taken her to venues in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tel Aviv, among others. Highlights of recent seasons include solo appearances at the Tonhalle Zurich, the Rheingau Music Festival and Victoria Hall Singapore. A CD with Scandinavian works was released by Sony/ RCA Red Seal in spring 2018. In January 2019, she recorded another CD with the LGT Young Soloists, including a video production by Bayerischer Rundfunk.

The "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" scholarship holder has performed several times at London's Wigmore Hall, the Ateneo Madrid and at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (including as a soloist with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Sopot). As Irino Prize winner, she gave several concerts in Tokyo, Japan in 2014. Her debut with the Asian Chamber Orchestra in Hong Kong followed a year later. At international chamber music festivals such as the "Thy Chamber Music Festival" (Denmark) and the "Clasclas Festival Vilagarcia" (Spain), she has performed alongside renowned artists such as Máté Szücs and Guy Braunstein (both former leading members of the Berliner Philharmoniker). Highlights of recent seasons include engagements with the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn (tour of Germany) and her debut 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 on "Evah Pirazzi Gold" strings with the kind support of Pirastro GmbH.