Prestigious scholarship

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Malte Henrik Gohr, a bachelor’s student in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski’s piano class, has received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.

The Studienstiftung is the largest and oldest organization in Germany dedicated to supporting gifted students. It provides financial and moral support to particularly talented and dedicated undergraduate and doctoral students. The selection process is based on a competition, with the first stage taking place at the university, followed by a national final. This year, the final was held at the Freiburg University of Music.

BIOGRAPHY

Malte Henrik Gohr was born in Hamburg in 2002. At the age of four, he moved to Zurich with his parents and began taking piano lessons at the age of five. He won his first music competition at the age of seven.

This was followed by numerous first prizes at Swiss competitions. He has been living in Hamburg again since 2014. There, as a scholarship recipient of the Claussen-Simon Foundation, he received support through piano lessons and by participating in the preparatory program at the Hamburg State Youth Music School.

He participated in various master classes and regularly competed successfully in both national and international piano competitions, such as the “Chinese-German Young Piano Competition.” At the age of 13, the young pianist gave his first
piano recital. In the years that followed, he repeatedly appeared as a soloist in major concert performances such as Camille Saint-Saëns’s “The Carnival of the Animals” (2017) and Schumann’s Piano Concerto (2018), as well as Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (2022), Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 (2022), and the premiere of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in one of Hamburg’s major churches (2023), in Hamburg’s most prestigious concert halls, including the Laeiszhalle, the Spiegelsaal at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Reinbek Castle, and the Elbphilharmonie. From 2020 to 2022, he performed in live-streamed concerts.

Since October 2021, he has been studying piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama under Professor Hubert Rutkowski.