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Bach Prize Scholarship for Samuel Penderbayne

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The scholarship, endowed with 5,000 euros, goes to the Hamburg-based composer Samuel Penderbayne. He was only awarded "summa com laude" for his artistic and academic doctorate at the HfMT in January.

The 2019 Bach Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, goes to the Korean composer Unsuk Chin. She is being honored with the Hanseatic city's most important music prize for her unique artistic work and her outstanding contribution to contemporary music. Chin's artistic career as a student of Ligeti is closely linked to Hamburg.

The Bach Prize will be awarded on November 28, 2019 at a concert in the Elbphilharmonie. The Bach Prize was established by the Hamburg Senate in 1950 to mark the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death and is awarded every four years.

This year's Bach Prize scholarship holder Samuel Penderbayne was born in Canberra, Australia, in 1989. After studying composition in Sydney and Munich, the singer and instrumentalist moved to Hamburg, where he still lives and works. In his work, he combines classical music tradition with modern elements of pop, rock, jazz and electronics. He completed his doctorate at the HfMT on the connection between modern music genres and the classical composition tradition. In January of this year, he was awarded "summa com laude" for his artistic and scientific doctorate supervised by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Flender, Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu and Prof. Fredrik Schwenk.
Samuel Penderbayne made himself known to Hamburg audiences in particular with the world premiere of his music theater work "I.th.Ak.A" at the Opera stabile of the Hamburg State Opera in April 2018. The Bach Prize scholarship holder Samuel Penderbayne is given the opportunity to develop and realize a composition.

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