HfMT alumna receives professorship and becomes portrait artist at the SHMF

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Asya Fateyeva, successful HfMT alumna and recently appointed part-time professor of saxophone at the HfMT, will be a portrait artist at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF). Over the past ten years, the Ukrainian-born saxophonist has brought the saxophone out of its jazz and pop niche and into the classical world, where she has made it socially acceptable. She is now demonstrating the impressive versatility of her instrument as a portrait artist at the festival, which has been running for 40 years, in a total of 17 concerts in July and August. Her new album "To the Muse" was also released by Berlin Classic on May 17, 2024.

A personal and very multi-faceted conversation with the artist as part of the NDR program "DAS!" is now available in the ARD media library. LINK

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Asya Fateyeva was born in Crimea and received her first piano lessons at the age of six. She began playing the saxophone in 2000. She was first taught by Lilija Russanowa at the Simferopol Music School and later by Margarita Schaposchnikowa at the Gnessin School in Moscow. After moving to Germany in 2005, she studied with Daniel Gauthier at the Cologne University of Music, where she graduated in 2011. She also spent a semester abroad at the Paris Conservatory with Claude Delangle and was taught by Jean-Denis Michat at the Conservatoire de Lyon. This was followed by a master's degree at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama with Niklas Schmidt.
Fateyeva has received numerous scholarships, including the Gerd Bucerius Scholarship from the ZEIT Foundation, a scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation and the Orpheum Foundation for the Promotion of Young Soloists. She has won prizes at numerous competitions.