Newsletter

In the freezing cold, we send you our warmest recommendations for December. Bundle up and join us. Let's brave the dark season together!

Tadaa - we're back after a long break and have all kinds of news that we'd like to share with you. Our anticipation is huge and colorful. Come and join us!

We're thinking big again at the end of the semester. Everyone who likes a lot of material on stage will get their money's worth here. The school musicians in particular are getting ready for their summer showcase and will be demonstrating their flair for program design and rousing moods with humor…

It's June - our busiest month for events - and in our filtering efforts we would like to draw your attention to the offerings of our Theater Academy: In the subject of directing, the fruits of our work can be seen in strong and challenging content discourses on history, the system and society,…

We're doing what the music world is doing right now: we're celebrating György Ligeti! Because on May 28, the Austro-Hungarian composer would have been 100 years old. Let's take a deep breath and then dive in: 6 days of festival in the footsteps of a great and special master. Known for his…

Welcome to the new semester! From here, we look ahead to the Feminale Festival at the end of the month and immerse April in our spring green, soft purple and bright pink theme: Four young female students have joined forces and decided to bring more female composers onto the stage and into…

Two very successful performances of Bach's Mass in B minor in the HfMT Forum are now behind us: the sonorous choir and wonderful vocal soloists from the Lübeck University of Music were accompanied confidently and sensitively by our university orchestra with buttery-soft string sounds, outstanding…

Time to write the newsletter...! It's always a very nice thing to do, because we pause for a moment and get an overview of upcoming events so that we can pick out a few that we would like to recommend to you. Sometimes an unexpected thread emerges while browsing. In February, we come across many…

Caring for each other - being there for each other - standing up for each other in a time shaken by crisis We sincerely wish you happy holidays and a good start into the New Year! To round things off, we are sending a musical greeting from the Forum from the solidarity event In Focus Iran:…

Let's take a look at what our Advent calendar has in store for you. We have made every effort to include something for every taste. In keeping with the motto "more is more", we have also prepared more than 24 little doors. You never know, and that's the way it is when anticipation gets the better of…

With this newsletter, we would like to recommend a special event to you. The current political events in Iran are very close to our hearts. A few weeks ago, we responded to the needs of our students of Iranian origin and created a forum in which we could exchange views on this topic. There was…

It is a special time for the HFMT. On Friday, we bid farewell to our former President Prof. Elmar Lampson after 18 years in office, who then symbolically handed over the keys to his successor Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick. So on Tuesday, after a brief exhalation and inhalation at the start of the…

Actually, everyone here has just flown the nest and is buzzing around the world. The students are on summer vacation or visiting home, finding inspiration in master classes or project work or simply earning money for their studies. Teachers are also using the lecture-free period to focus on other…

The usual June showcase begins: in addition to the standard high density of examination and studio concerts, there is a wide variety of other presentations from our core areas of music, theater, education and science. In terms of numbers, you can choose between 112 events. That's an average of…

Unfortunately, we have to cancel the benefit concert on 20 May in the Great Hall of the Laeiszhalle at short notice for organizational reasons. Instead, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce our guest students from the Ukraine, who began their studies at the HfMT in April. Since the…

In the meantime, it's like a wild and blooming garden: we sow, water, nurture, support, create spaces and observe. And our plants sprout, grow, develop and show themselves in their diverse splendor. Some slowly, some quickly. Some strikingly colorful and towering, others finer, more discreet. In…

Life is finally back in the office! On Monday, the students returned from their semester break and filled our halls with energy, zest for action, contact and presentation pleasure. In terms of coronavirus, we are easing up noticeably, but moderately: the 3G controls and checkerboard seating are…

Ukrainian and Russian students from the HfMT will be giving joint benefit concerts for Ukraine on March 5 and 6

We are shocked and helpless in the face of the cruel war and the immeasurable suffering of the people in Ukraine. "Let's not stop building bridges," says University President Elmar Lampson. "Culture, as we understand it, is an expression of peace. As a cultural institution, we are powerless in…

We have almost made it through January - which is proving to be particularly long and challenging in its final days. February ahead of us - for some a thankfully short bridge to the first month of spring - may be short from an HfMT perspective, but it is rich and therefore blooming like spring in…

Miracles come true, a vision becomes reality, the ideal becomes real. That is Christmas. This year, we have realized our dreams of rooms and feel great gratitude for this. We want to share this happiness in the coming year: Create spaces for encounters, make spaces vibrate, walk through them,…

It's November and we're in the mood for some soul warmers. October was radiant and allowed us to open the semester and our new premises on Wiesendamm with a flourish. The month ahead is quieter and less tangible in its conception. A closer look at our event recommendations reveals a touchingly…

October is just around the corner and with it the start of the semester and lots of outstanding events that need to be attended.

In the last few meters before the summer break, we are really stepping on the gas and creating meeting spaces wherever possible. In July, we'll be presenting a nice cross-section of disciplines and offering a few more opportunities to see the inside of our new JazzHall. Your HfMT wishes you lots…

We are so happy we could burst! Get dressed up, come and visit us, experience culture together with others again, take a seat in a red velvet chair and share your joy with us - because we are opening the event business for you. We start with opera, theater and symphony concerts. If that's…

The outlook for our next highlights and the wondrous hope that we will soon be able to welcome you back to analog formats make May a delight for us.

The title of an evening of compositions planned a year ago sounds unexpectedly true - with a new flavor - from today's point of view: "From the depths of the uncertainty that has now lasted a year, so to speak, and at the same time with an immeasurable willingness to innovate, we see ourselves…

With our December newsletter, we would like to draw your attention to some of our digital offers. Browse, browse, inform yourself, be amazed and stay connected with us!

From our canceled 9-day Beethoven Festival with all violin, cello and piano sonatas, diverse chamber music in a wide variety of instrumentations and large orchestral concerts, we have now saved a single truffle praline for the public, which we present to you as a livestream.

We are starting an exciting winter semester 2020/21. Today you can read about the great hour of budding actors, how to (not) get lost in octaves and what makes a good photo for the university newspaper.

While in the first weeks of the lockdown we mainly focused on the continuation of teaching as well as reports and contributions from our students from their living rooms at home, today we are giving you an insight into some events that we are holding digitally, but live and in public, and which we…