Hamburg Teaching Award 2019

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HfMT lecturers Isabel Moretón-Achsel and Nicole Dellabona have received the Hamburg Teaching Award 2019.

Isabel Moretón-Achsel teaches harp and methodology/didactics of the harp at the HfMT. Nicole Dellabona is a lecturer for singing.

The Hamburg Teaching Prize is awarded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Equality in recognition of excellent teaching at Hamburg's state universities.

Excerpt from the press release by the Ministry of Science, Research and Equality of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg:

For their outstanding and innovative teaching concepts, 19 Hamburg university lecturers have received the 2019 Teaching Award of the City of Hamburg. Science Senator Katharina Fegebank presented the award this afternoon in the atrium of the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library. The Hamburg Teaching Prize is being awarded for the 11th time to lecturers at Hamburg's six state universities and is endowed with 10,000 euros each. Hamburg students have the right to nominate candidates for the teaching prize.
Science Senator Katharina Fegebank: "Teachers who inspire enthusiasm for their subject with innovative approaches, convey content in a varied way and spark curiosity and motivation in their students are an incredible asset. First and foremost for students, but also for their university and Hamburg as a science location as a whole. The award winners stand for excellent teaching, which forms a valuable basis for research and progress in many areas of society. I would like to thank all the award winners for their outstanding commitment and congratulate them on this well-deserved honor!"

Among the award winners:

Isabel Moretón-Achsel is a harpist and teacher in Hanover. She studied in her home town of Hanover with Ruth Konhäuser and at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, with Susann McDonald. Studies with Nicanor Zabaleta, Susanna Mildonian, Catherine Michel and in historical performance practice with Andrew Lawrence-King rounded off her training. Concert invitations have taken her to Europe, the Middle East, the USA, Canada and - at the invitation of the World Harp Congress - to Sydney, Australia, in summer 2014.
They will use the prize money to accompany the two students Naho Higuchi and Louisic Dulbecco, class of Prof. Xavier de Maistre, to the International Harp Competition in Bloomington, which will take place from July 3 to 13, 2019 at their former university, Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music.

Nicole Dellabona has been a lecturer in singing at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama since 2011. Here she supervises students of school music, church music, elementary music education and music theater directing as a major and minor subject. She is a qualified singer for song, oratorio and opera, as well as a qualified singing teacher. As a freelance contralto, her work focuses on concert and oratorio repertoire, in which she has an extensive repertoire spanning all epochs.
Nicole Dellabona is a multiple 1st prize winner at Jugend musiziert, has received a special prize from the Walter Kaminsky Foundation and various scholarships, and has reached the final rounds of renowned international competitions.
She will use the prize money for special further training measures that will benefit her teaching and her students.
Further information at www.nicoledellabona.de