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News Success Jakob Sehrig accepted into the Bavarian Elite Academy

Photo: Kay Herschelmann, Source: HfM

The Bavarian Elite Academy (BEA) supports exceptional and dedicated students who are prepared to take on responsibility, embrace leadership roles and contribute to shaping our shared future in the spirit of an open society. We would like to congratulate Jakob Sehrig on being accepted onto the programme!

Jakob Sehrig has been studying music with the tuba as his main subject (artistic and pedagogical) at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2020. Prior to this, he completed four years of private study with Heiko Triebener. He has attended masterclasses led by Prof. Roger Bobo, Prof. Stefan Heimann, Prof. Wilfried Brandstötter and others. Alongside his musical training, he has been involved in university politics for several years, representing the interests of over 400,000 students as a spokesperson for the Bavarian State Student Council. He is also a co-founder of the Federal Initiative against Abuse of Power at Music Universities and is committed to structural changes in the university system. He is also an artificial intelligence tutor focusing on its pedagogical potential, a digital change maker for the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, and a Falk Foundation for Health and Education scholarship holder.