Prestigious scholarship

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Malte Henrik Gohr, Bachelor student from Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class, has received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.

The Studienstiftung is the largest and oldest organization for the promotion of gifted students in Germany. It provides financial and non-material support to particularly talented and committed students and doctoral candidates. The selection process is based on a competition, the first stage of which takes place at the university, followed by a final at national level. This year, the final took place at the Freiburg University of Music.

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Malte Henrik Gohr was born in Hamburg in 2002. He moved to Zurich with his parents at the age of four and began taking piano lessons at the age of five. He won his first music competition at the age of seven.

This was followed by numerous first prizes at Swiss competitions. He has lived in Hamburg again since 2014. There he received a scholarship from the Claussen Simon Foundation to take piano lessons and take part in the preparatory course at the Hamburg State Youth Music School.

He took part in various master classes and regularly participated successfully in both national and international piano competitions, such as the "Chinese-German Young Piano Competition". At the age of 13, the young pianist played his first piano recital at
. In the following years, he repeatedly appeared as a soloist in major concert performances such as Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals" (2017) and the Schumann Piano Concerto (2018), as well as the first Chopin Piano Concerto (2022), the 20th Mozart Piano Concerto (2022) and the Mozart Piano Concerto (2022) and the first performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto in one of Hamburg's main churches (2023), in Hamburg's most important concert halls, the Laeiszhalle, the Spiegelsaal of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Schloss Reinbek, the Elbphilharmonie and from 2020-2022 he played in concert live streams.

Since October 2021 he has been studying piano at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg under Professor Hubert Rutkowski.