Professorship for HfMT alumnus

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Congratulations to Austria! Samuel Penderbaynewho graduated from the HfMT in 2018 with a 1.0 "summa cum laude" in composition, will take up a full professorship at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK).

Vita
Samuel Penderbayne is an Australian composer who has lived and worked in Germany since 2012. He studied composition with Prof. Moritz Eggert (Munich), Prof. Frederik Schwenk (Hamburg) and Mathew Hindson (Sydney). In 2018 he completed his doctorate at the HfMT on the subject of "Guidelines for cross-genre composition - The connection of modern music genres with the classical composition tradition".
With a focus on music theater, he has worked as a composer on various well-known stages. In 2018, his first opera I.TH.AK.A. (director: Paul-Georg Dittrich) premiered at the Hamburg State Opera. In 2019, he composed the children's opera DIE SCHNEEKÖNIGIN (director: Brigitte Dethier) for the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the semi-staged music theater TRIALOG (director: Heiko Hentschel) for KLANGFEST (festival at Kampnagel, Hamburg) and the interdisciplinary theater spectacle DAS HAMBURGER MENETEKEL (director: Ron Zimmering) for the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (large stage). In 2020, he returned as a composer to the Hamburg State Opera with the project RAUS AUS ÅMÅL (director: Alexander Riemenschneider).
He has also worked as a theater composer at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Theater Bremen, Trier and Jena, among others. In 2020, he will also compose new instrumental works for the Zentaur String Quartet (Freiburg/Munich), Ensemble Pynarello (for Gaudeamus Muziekweek) and cellist Maya Fridman. In 2019, he was awarded the Bach Prize Scholarship by the Senate of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.