Competition success for HfMT composition students

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Sina Fani Sani from Prof. Gordon Kampe's HfMT composition class is the winner of the NEUE SZENEN International Composition Competition

The competition was announced for the sixth time in cooperation with Deutsche Oper Berlin. The world premiere of the music theater works created as part of the cooperation will take place in April 2023 in the Tischlerei, the experimental venue of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
This year, for the first time, both composers alone and teams of composer and author could apply for the NEUE SZENEN with a meaningful work. On this basis, the jury awarded the commissions for a total of three music theater works. A total of 119 valid applications were received by October 28, 2021, more than half of which came from other European and non-European countries. The members of the composition competition jury included Prof. Gordon Kampe (composer), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussionist and composer), Gerhild Steinbuch (author), Sebastian Hanusa (dramaturge, Deutsche Oper Berlin) and Prof. Claus Unzen (director, Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin).

Vita
The Iranian composer and guitarist Sina Fani Sani (*1990) was born in Esfahan and initially studied classical guitar and composition with Golfam Khayam and Kiawasch Sahebnasagh at the University of Arts in Tehran. From 2017 he studied composition with Claus Kühnl and electronic composition with Annesley Black at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, where he graduated with distinction in 2020. He is currently doing his master's degree in composition with Gordon Kampe at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg.

He has successfully participated in numerous concerts and competitions in Iran, was a participant in the final round of the Tehran Youth Festival 2015 and has been a member of the Iranian "National Elites Foundation" since 2013. Sina Fani Sani was a scholarship holder of the Patronage Association of Dr. Hoch's Conservatory and is a DAAD scholarship holder for the PROMOS scholarship program as well as for the performance scholarship. He has attended master classes, workshops and seminars with Stefano Gervasoni, Wolfgang Rihm, Orm Finnendahl, Ulrich Kreppein, Alexander Schubert and Marco Liuni, among others. He was selected for the 11th Livorno Music Festival with his composition "The Sodomites" for three soprano voices and electronics. As part of the Hamburg "akademie kontemporär"

2021, he recently performed two music theater works: "Die kluge Else" a fairytale opera based on the Brothers Grimm for soprano voice, ensemble and electronics, directed by Constanze Negueira Negwer, and the conceptual music theater performance "Farewell Rituals", in which he explored the relationships between space, body and sound in a post-dramatic concept in collaboration with Viola Mignon Bierich.