Special Price at Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2023 for Jonas Haffner

Jonas Haffner (born in 1993) received his first piano lessons at an early age in Stuttgart with Romuald Noll and studied in Lübeck and Hanover with Konrad Elser and Roland Krüger. He then deepened his passion for chamber music in Markus Becker’s class. He received further musical inspiration from Elisabeth Leonskaja, Anatol Ugorski, Jan Philip Schulze, Eberhard Feltz, and Thomas Brandis, among others.

Jonas Haffner has won numerous national and international competitions, including awards in Košice, Pörtschach, and Nuremberg. He has received various scholarships, including from the German Music Foundation and the Kiwanis Club Lübeck-Hanse, and was a scholarship holder of Live Music Now Hamburg and Hanover. In 2021, he received the Börsenclub Hannover Prize. At the 2023 German Music Competition, he was not only awarded a scholarship and accepted into the German Music Competition’s concert promotion program, but also received the Carl Bechstein Foundation’s Piano Promotion Prize and the Hindemith Foundation’s Hindemith Prize.

As a sought-after soloist, he has performed throughout Germany with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Schwäbisch Gmünd Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academic Orchestra of the University of Stuttgart, and other orchestras in Stuttgart, Osnabrück, and Heidelberg.

He works as an accompanist at the University of Music, Drama, and Media in Hanover and is dedicated to promoting young talent at the Uelzen Music School.

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