DAAD Prize 2023 goes to HfMT organ students

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Yuhan Niu, HfMT organ student in the classes of Professor Wolfgang Zerer and Professor Matthias Neumann, has been awarded the DAAD Prize 2023.
The DAAD Prize, which is endowed with €1,000 per university and has been awarded for more than ten years, is intended to help give faces to the large numbers of international students at German universities and connect them with stories.

On the occasion of the awarding of the DAAD Prize, an organ concert will take place on Wednesday, 1. 11. 2023 in the church of St. Johannis in Harvestehude with the awarding of the DAAD Prize 2023 to Ms. Yuhan NIU by the President of the HfMT Hamburg, Prof. Jan Philipp Sprick. The prizewinner will play works by Bach, Widor, Reger, Messiaen and Vierne, among others.
The concert starts at 8 pm, admission is free.

Biography
Yuhan Niu comes from China. She completed her bachelor's degree in sound engineering/music industry at the Communication University of China and the University of Southern California (Los Angeles). In 2015, she began her organ studies at the University of Southern California with Professor Cherry Rhodes and graduated with a Master's degree with honors. She has performed concerts at cathedrals in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
From 2017 to 2020, Ms. Niu worked as a cantor at Gethsemane Lutheran Church La Crescenta in California.
In November 2020, she began studying organ with Professor Wolfgang Zerer and Professor Matthias Neumann at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg. She has performed in several churches in Germany. Her own highlights include concerts in Verden in the cathedral, at the Lüneburg Organ Summer 2022 in St. Nikolai Lüneburg and recently at the "Podium der Jungen" in St. Jacobi Hamburg.
This year, she passed her concert exam with summa cum laude and we are delighted to present her with the DAAD Prize 2023 for outstanding foreign students.