Complex sentence: In 1997, he was a winner in the International Competition'Classica Nova' in Hannover and in 1999 he won the'Special Prize' of the Neue Stimmen Competition in Gutersloh.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1997, he was a winner in the Classica Nova International Competition in Hannover. In 1999, he won the'Special Prize' at the Neue Stimmen Competition in Gutersloh.