DAAD Prize for Martin Zamorano

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Martin Zamorano was awarded the DAAD Prize 2020 for his wide-ranging commitment to the ASTA, among others. As a former junior student, he is now studying music theory (Master's) with Prof. Jan Philipp Sprick and Prof. Preuß at the HfMT Hamburg.

The DAAD Prize, which is endowed with 1,000 euros per university and has been awarded for more than ten years, is intended to help give 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 connects worlds, wherever they are and will be based.

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

Vita

For Martín Zamorano, who was born in Madrid in 1995, Hamburg has become his second home since he came to the Hanseatic city as a piano student at the age of 16.

After graduating in 2014, he stayed at the university to study classical composition and theory. In the meantime, he made a name for himself in the young jazz scene with several awards at the 'Jugend jazzt' competition in Hamburg.

In 2016, Martín Zamorano founded the septet SNICE, with which he plays his own compositions and arrangements, which are characterized by their versatility of genres and influences.

As a classical pianist and interpreter, he explores unusual repertoire, improvisation and historical performance practice, regularly playing works by unknown composers.

As a composer, Martín Zamorano embodies the connection between the "old" and the "new". His language is influenced by both the Western musical tradition and modern pop and jazz culture. His music is not defined by a separation from other musical genres, but counteracts the division between avant-garde and popular art through flexibility and hybridity.

His works have been performed at festivals in England, Germany and Spain and have won several awards, including the Leipzig Opera Composition Competition (2019) and the Elbland Philharmonic Orchestra (2019).