Music student Daehyeon Kang receives DAAD Prize

Korean honoured for his social engagement and his artistic achievements. Vice-Rector Michael Quante ( left ) and Koh Gabriel Kameda from Münster University of Music congratulate prize-winner Daehyeon Kang. Uni MS - MünsterView Daehyeon Kang has been awarded the 2023 DAAD Prize by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) for his social and intercultural engagement as well as for his artistic achievements. A Korean by birth, Kang has been studying Music and Creativity, majoring in violin, at Münster University of Music since 2019. In addition to receiving a variety of awards and achieving successes in competitions, Kang won over the jury of the International Office as a result of looking beyond his own subject and the academic world and demonstrating engagement in a wide variety of multifaceted, high-profile encounters. "Your engagement shows that what is important to you is not only that you are successful in music, but also that you are able to find the time to be active on behalf of intercultural exchange," said Prof Michael Quante, Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Transfer and Sustainability, during the award ceremony in the "Botanicum - Centre for Student Affairs". "I hope," he added, "that in future, in addition to your appearances in concert halls all over the world, you will return to Münster to give concerts at our University." Daehyeon Kang revived the Kammerensemble Münster (Münster Chamber Ensemble) , which consists primarily of international students and which, since the Corona pandemic, had no longer had any platform on which to present its artistry.