Successes for HfMT Composition Classes

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Kyungjin Lim and Nina Deuse, students in Prof. Gordon Kampe’s composition class at the HfMT, are among the winners of the “ad libitum” composition competition 2026/2027 organized by the Winfried Böhler Cultural Foundation. Since 2008, the Winfried Böhler Cultural Foundation has been helping to build an attractive, artistically high-quality repertoire of contemporary music that can be performed by children, young people, and adult amateur musicians.
The 2026/27 expert jury, consisting of the composers and a member of trio marcel (Alex Waite/Malin Grass/Benjamin Kautter) and a representative from the collaborating institution paid particular attention to ensuring that the selected works offer opportunities for the young musicians to improvise on their own.
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In addition, the Hamburg-based composer and HfMT alumna Yixie Shen was selected as composer-in-residence for the Ensemble Écoute for one year. She is the winner of the 2024 Gaudeamus Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for emerging composers. Her works have been performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras, including Ensemble Modern, Ascolta, IEMA, KNM Berlin, LUX, Trio Catch, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Kiel Philharmonic, and the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Ensemble Écoute was founded in 2015 on the initiative of Fernando Palomeque and Alex Nante and has made it its primary mission to premiere and promote works by young composers. As part of long-term artistic residencies, the ensemble invites young composers to participate in a variety of projects: concerts, installations, operas, educational projects, and recordings. In these projects, new commissioned works enter into a dialogue with the historically significant repertoire of the late 20th century (works by Grisey, Murail, Birtwistle, Rihm, Saunders, and others).
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