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5 people dressed in white looking into a yellow plastic baby carriage
Production Teacher Training Theater, 2025
Picture: Fabian Hammerl
made-up actor with green eyes and red cap in close-up
Till Gedack, 3rd year drama student
Picture: Christina Körte
Chiara Sax looks into the camera through the strings of her harp
Chiara Sax studies harp in the class of Prof. Xavier de Maistre
Man sits on a gray stone staircase with an electric guitar and plays
Lucas Etcheverria, Guitar & Composition
Picture: Christina Körte
6 people lie on their stomachs and look into a bright terrarium
"Property", final production play April 2025
Picture: Richard Stöhr
Trombonists in the orchestra
Trombone section in the symphony orchestra of the HfMT
Picture: Christina Körte

News and updates from the university

Portrait of the violin student and HfMT alumnus Mon, 04/13/2026
HfMT alumnus becomes concertmaster

Sheng-Fang Chiu, who completed a Bachelor's degree in Tanja Becker-Bender's violin class from 2019 to 2025, has been appointed 1st concertmaster of the…

Logo Thu, 04/09/2026
New paths into music - promoting talent and creating opportunities

The Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) is establishing a center for the promotion of young talent and bundling offers for the early promotion of…

Four students sit in a circle on chairs and talk Mon, 03/30/2026
Cultural Leadership: Application phase started

The Cultural Leadership Scholarship Program 2026/27 goes into a second round in Hamburg!

The Cultural Leadership Scholarship Program will go into a second round…

"16" impression of the Calls for Transfers project Wed, 03/25/2026
Successful "Calls for Transfer" applications

Two of the 16 approved applications in this year's "Calls for Transfer" funding program were for HfMT projects - out of a total of 119 submissions! The project…

Group photo with the scholarship holders Tue, 03/10/2026
Success for cultural leadership

15 scholarship holders from Hamburg cultural organizations have successfully completed the first Cultural Leadership Scholarship Programme in Hamburg. At the…

Exhibition space with an abstract illustration by Mae West Mon, 03/23/2026
Moving Sound Pictures: Project from the ligeti center gets its own exhibition space

From March 28 to May 2, 2026, Grindelallee 129 in Hamburg will become a place for immersive art: Moving Sound Pictures: The VR Pop-Up Gallery, an independent…


colorful abstract picture with a guitar and a mandolin Sat, 04/18 Exhibition
VR Pop-Up Gallery: Moving Sound Pictures

Pop Up Raum Grindel, 11:00 Uhr

Caricature on yellow background Sat, 04/18 Concert
Exchange Hamburg - Prague

Students and lecturers from both cities together in a concert

Orchesterstudio, 19:00 Uhr

Miles Davis during a concert; black and white Sat, 04/18 Concert
100 years of Miles Davis: The sound of a life

Music & book presentation

JazzHall, 19:30 Uhr

colorful abstract picture with a guitar and a mandolin Sun, 04/19 Exhibition
VR Pop-Up Gallery: Moving Sound Pictures

Pop Up Raum Grindel, 11:00 Uhr

Child with a trumpet stands in a miniature landscape; view from above Sun, 04/19 Musical theatre
Stockhausen for children: Michael's journey

Karlheinz Stockhausen

OPERA STABILE der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, 11:00 Uhr


University of Music and Drama

With around 1400 students, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama is one of the largest artistic universities in Germany and offers artistic and academic training in all areas of music and theater.

Under the motto "Artistic excellence in social responsibility", the university is in a permanent process of creative reinvention and courageous further development. It is the aim of the university to critically and productively relate both aspects to each other in all its fields of work. Reflection on artistic processes is an indispensable prerequisite for this reciprocal relationship between art and society, between excellence and responsibility.