Rain of prizes for HfMT young students

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At this year's national Jugend musiziert competition, which was held digitally via video selection in Bremen and Bremerhaven at the end of May, young students from the Andreas Franke Academy at the HfMT received several awards

Aila Katalin Krohn, a junior student in Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender's class at the Andreas Franke Academy, violin, was awarded 1st prize with the highest score in a duo with Marvin Maung Tint, piano. The duo was also awarded a special prize by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. The duo Aila Katalin Krohn and Malte Peters, young students of Prof. Julija Botchkovskaia at the Andreas Franke Academy, piano, were awarded 2nd prize in the same competition.

Vitae

Aila Katalin Krohn was born in Hamburg in 2003. She began violin lessons at the Hamburg Conservatory at the age of five. At the age of 11, Aila transferred to the Lübeck University of Music as a junior student in the class of Prof. Maria Egelhof. Since the summer semester 2020, Aila has been a junior student at the Andreas Franke Academy at the HfMT Hamburg with Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender. Since Aila was eight years old, she has won first prize at Jugend musiziert every year, in some years in two parallel categories. Since 2016, she has won several prizes at the national Jugend musiziert competition and has regularly been awarded 1st national prizes. She has also been awarded special prizes from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, the Hamburg Mozart Society, the Hans Sikorski Memorial Prize, the Christa Knauer Challenge Cup and The Young ClassX Coaching. She was also awarded the special prize from YAMAHA Music Europe GmbH and received a special prize from the German Foundation for Musical Life. Since 2014, she has also been awarded 1st prize with distinction at the Hamburg Instrumental Competition every year. In 2019, the HASPA Music Foundation presented her with a violin made for her by Hamburg master violin maker Anneke Degen. Aila is concertmaster of the Albert Schweitzer Jugendorchester and plays in the NDR Jugendsinfonieorchester and the Nova Consonanza chamber orchestra. Aila has attended masterclasses with Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Becker-Bender, Joanna Kamenarska, Sebastian Schmidt and Tanja Tetzlaff. In October 2020, she was a participant in the chamber music project "Mit Musik - Miteinander" at Kronberg Academy, sponsored by the Crespo Foundation. From 2015 to 2018, Aila was a scholarship holder of the Förderverein Jugend musiziert Hamburg. In 2016/17 Aila was a scholarship holder of the Initiative Jugend Kammermusik Hamburg. Since the summer semester of 2017, Aila has been a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation.

Malte Peters is 16 years old and attends the 11th grade at Wolfgang Borchert Gymnasium in Halstenbek. He began playing the piano at the age of 7 with Ludmila Botchkowskaja. Since 2018, he has been a junior student at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with Prof. Julija Botchkowskaja. Malte is a scholarship holder of the Andreas Franke Academy and the Donati Foundation.
He has already won prizes at numerous national and international competitions. Malte is a multiple first prize winner of the Chinese-German Young Piano Competition and the Hamburg Instrumental Competition. In 2020 he won the Anton Rubinstein Competition Düsseldorf. He has also won other awards, including second national prize for piano solo Jugend musiziert 2017, finalist in the Steinway Competition 2017, third prize in the Feurich Competition Vienna 2018 and third prize in the Grotrian-Steinweg Competition 2020.

Marvin Maung Tint was born in Hamburg in 2004. His family comes from Burma. He received his first piano lessons from Andreas Stier in Hamburg (2010-2017). He has also been studying violin with Christo Draganov since 2014. Since 2016, he has been taking regular piano lessons in Vienna with Prof. Elisabeth Eschwé, who discovered and encouraged his talent, and has been a student of Prof. Manfred Aust (Lübeck) since 2021. He has a special love for the piano and, in addition to solo playing, chamber music is also very close to his heart.
He recently won a 1st national prize with the highest score together with his duo partner Aila Katalin Krohn (violin, class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, Hamburg) in the 2021 Jugend musiziert competition. The duo was also awarded the special prize of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
In 2017, he won first prize as a soloist at the national Jugend musiziert competition with the highest score at all competition levels and also won first prize in the chamber music category in 2018. At these competitions, he was also awarded the "Steinway Special Prize" and a prize from the German Foundation for Musical Life. As a scholarship holder of this foundation, he was invited to several concerts in Hamburg. Marvin also received a three-year scholarship from the Carl Bechstein Foundation and has since played at concerts in Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, as well as at a Bechstein anniversary concert. In 2015 and 2016, he won first prizes at the Hamburg Instrumental Competition and in 2016 at the national Jugend musiziert duo competition. He won prizes at the Steinway Competition in 2017 and 2019. In 2019, he was awarded a special prize for modern music (Arnold Schönberg) at the 14th International Youth Piano Competition in Essen and won second prize at the 11th Bach Competition for Young Pianists in Köthen. He has been invited to Vienna several times by the Georges Cziffra Foundation (2017, 2019 and 2020) and also plays regularly at concerts in the International Podium for Young Artists series in the Old Town Hall, Vienna.

Andreas Franke Academy
As a committed Hamburg entrepreneur, Andreas Franke is determined to put his guiding principle of long-term action into practice in the social sphere. A stroke of luck for young musicians in the city of Hamburg: in 2008, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama was able to launch its first privately financed course of study, the Andreas Franke Academy.

With the founding of the academy, Andreas Franke, the son of a chamber musician, has given his many years of commitment to the promotion of young musical talent the framework it deserves. The idea for founding the academy arose in collaboration with the university due to the high demand for early musical support. Until now, there have been hardly any special training opportunities for young, highly talented musicians.

The junior students at the Andreas Franke Academy are musically talented young people of school age. As part of the academy, they receive individual and targeted support from the professors, without neglecting their school obligations.

You can find more information about the Andreas Franke Academy here www.andreas-franke-akademie.de