New professor for horn appointed

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The Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) welcomes a new professor who can look back on a special connection to his alma mater. Adrian Díaz Martinez has accepted the appointment as Professor of Horn and will begin teaching at the HfMT in the summer semester of 2025. After many years as a horn player in the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and as Professor of Horn at the University of Music in Lübeck, Adrian Díaz Martinez is looking forward to returning to the place where he studied - this time in the role of teacher.

"When I think of the HfMT, I remember my first years in Hamburg," says Adrian Díaz Martinez, who began his doctoral studies for a Dr. sc. mus degree at the HfMT alongside his position as a horn player with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. "It was a phase in which I personally felt a little lost. The atmosphere at the HfMT was very good for me and it was an important, instructive and positive time," he says. His return to the university is therefore particularly meaningful for him: "Now I am very happy to be able to return to this building, to these classrooms and to teach the young musicians and accompany them on their way. I am convinced that all the components of this educational institution together will undoubtedly provide a wonderful platform for students to gradually integrate into the professional world of music."

Adrian Díaz Martinez still plays freelance with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.