Music education as a passion

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The DAAD Prize 2022 goes to the Ukrainian student Oleksandra Vasylieva

If you want to experience the prizewinner live, the bassoonist and pianist studying at the HfMT is currently putting together a program for the Mendelssohnsaal. The date is October 28, 2022 at 6 pm, the laudatory speech will be held by Prof. Christian Kunert

Vita
Oleksandra Vasylieva was born in the Ukraine in 2000. She began taking lessons at a special music high school at the age of 3. From the age of twelve, she added the bassoon to her piano.
During her school years, she took part in various competitions and was twice awarded first prize at international competitions. In 2017, she moved to Germany to continue her studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. During the years of her studies she was involved in various projects, such as NDR Youth Symphony Orchestra, Young North German Philharmonic Orchestra, Elbtunnel Project and many more. Since then, she has played concerts on various stages in Hamburg and attended many master classes during her training. She has been principal bassoon in the Ukrainian Youth Orchestra since 2016.
In addition to performing at concerts, she is also passionate about passing on musical knowledge to others, sharing this joy of making music with other people and awakening a love of music in others.

DAAD Prize
The DAAD Prize, which is endowed with €1,000 per university and has been awarded for more than ten years, is intended to help put faces to the large numbers of international students at German universities and connect them with stories. This makes it clear that every single international student takes a piece of Germany back home with them and leaves something of themselves in Germany - an enrichment for both sides.

The students who have received such an award through their host university represent their fellow students from all over the world. They are future partners for Germany in business, politics and science.