First prize for HfMT violinist

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Christa-Maria Stangorra, Bachelor graduate of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender's violin class, won the first prize of 5000 euros in the Peter Pirazzi Foundation competition in Frankfurt am Main in February 2019

In February 2019, 13 finalists out of 69 applicants competed in the nationwide university competition of the Peter Pirazzi Foundation - this time for violin/viola master's or concert exam - at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt. Since 2018, the Peter Pirazzi Foundation, a non-profit foundation for the promotion of music, has been organizing the competition nationwide for students studying a string instrument and has thus already provided many young musicians with great support. Five winners were chosen in February 2018.

The German-Latvian violinist Christa-Maria Stangorraborn in Minden/Westphalia in 1995, 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 at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Ning Feng.
The "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" scholarship holder has performed several times at London's Wigmore Hall, at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (including as a soloist with the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot) and most recently at the "Thy Chamber Music Festival" in Denmark, where she performed together with Máté Szücs (principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), among others. Further concerts have taken her to Tokyo, Hong Kong and Xiamen/China as a soloist and chamber musician. Christa-Maria Stangorra plays on a violin with a label "Giovanni Grancino 1731" from a private collection in Schleswig-Holstein, which has been made available to her by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.