COZY, COOL AND CHEERY

We are delighted with the great ideas from some of our colleagues and specialist groups and are pleased to present our small Christmas collection.

Christmas studio concert on 4.12.
with the singing class of Prof. Geert Smits
Cello Manifesto - Advent concert on December 7
with some melodious Christmas hits
Heavenly Voices on 10.12.
absolute Christmas crossover special / this concert is unfortunately already sold out.
Studio concert for piano for the 3rd Advent on December 14
with a literary-musical program
cozy, cool and cheery on 15.12.
musically casual, warm and lively - unfortunately this concert is already fully booked.
Dillatime. lecture performance & Christmas dance floor on 18.12.
This is all about hip-hop and the exceptional musician J Dilla before the evening unravels in a dance research with Christmas anticipation. You probably have to have experienced it to be able to imagine what it's like. Come along!

P-performance, A-authorship and K-artistry in a contemporary T-theater. The acronym describes the idea behind the Spielweisen module, in which our drama students are invited to take the initiative in exploring and realizing their individual artistic themes. On the performance days, the artists show the results of their work and look forward to a subsequent exchange with the audience.

PAKT on December 9 and 10

Every two years, our house, our corridors, our checkrooms and the Forum stage fill up with around 100 children, which is a great challenge for us, but above all enchantingly beautiful. This is when the pupils from the JeKi schools we support perform together with students from the HfMT in a joint concert. This valuable project is made possible by the constant commitment of Elke and Horst Dörner.
In keeping with tradition, the concert has long been fully booked, but can be followed live on our YouTube channel for anyone who is interested.

JeKi concert on December 9th

This evening focuses on a composer who worked between the poles of state control and artistic integrity. Dmitri Shostakovich had to bow to the demands of the Stalinist regime and at the same time was repeatedly condemned as a "formalist". Nevertheless, he developed strategies to preserve his aesthetic stance and formulate musical statements that undermined the official.

The dramaturgy of the evening follows this double movement: Adaptation on the surface, resistance at the core. In the selected works, it becomes audible how Shostakovich encoded emotional truths and opened up spaces in which individual experience could endure despite political surveillance. In view of the current situation in Russia and a regime that is once again suppressing opposition and trying to silence criticism, this music is depressingly topical. It reminds us that power always rubs up against art - and that art remains one of its most effective counterforces.

Shostakovich evening at the HfMT on December 10

Everyone is talking about it: the planned new opera house. The designs of the BIG architectural office have just been published and give the future building a promising face.
The Institute for Cultural and Media Management, in cooperation with the Dr. E. A. Langner Foundation, is therefore organizing a round table discussion on this highly topical and very controversial subject, which will also provide plenty of scope for critical questions from the audience.

The three most important players in this project have accepted the invitation to take part in the discussion:
Dr. Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Dr. Jörg Dräger, Managing Director of the Kühne Foundation
Tobias Kratzer, Director of the Hamburg State Opera
The event will take place in the JazzHall and will be moderated by journalist and presenter Charlotte Oelschlegel.

Hamburg's opera of the future - a project of the century in conversation on December 16 in the JazzHall

Anyone who missed the very well-received open day at ligeti zentrum on November 22 can experience Lõ5t iñ Trån5l4tíøn on December 3, an entertaining stage show about humans, robots and the art of translation.

For her final project La Voix de Carmen, premiering on December 4, director Huijoon Ahn has teamed up with composer Kyungjin Lim, who has contributed both his own compositions and arrangements of Georges Bizet's original musical material for this production.

On December 7, Austrian singer Veronika Morscher will bring her album Blooming to the JazzHall - a collection of personal songs between jazz, poetic songwriting and narrative clarity.

On December 11, the HfMT Baroque Orchestra will perform a selection of English and Italian works for the first time under the direction of Prof. Anna Fusek, who has been Professor of Recorder since the summer semester.

Tickets can still be won for the following concerts:

Opera Gala on December 12 in the Forum
Opera fans can look forward to two annual events at the HfMT. The big summer opera and - on the opposite side of the calendar year - the festive opera gala in December, which this year will be beautiful, colorful, diverse and varied. The singers are skillfully accompanied on the piano and the evening is easily staged as an overall event. Impressive voices and entertaining entertainment are definitely to be expected.

Melissa Aldana on December 20 at the JazzHall
This great concert with the 21-piece Jazzkombinat Hamburg and the Chilean, Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana has just been named one of the 6 jazz tips of the month in the Hamburger Abendblatt and the perfect way to end the year.

And this is how it works:
Reply to this newsletter by December 5 and tell us your best HfMT experience from 2025, including which of the concerts you are interested in or whether both are equally suitable.
We will notify the winners in time for St. Nicholas Day on December 6 - good luck!

As always, there is more to discover in addition to our recommendations. As usual, you can find the complete program in our Calendar of Events