LATE HARVEST IN SEPTEMBER
Dear friends of the HfMT,
With the last rays of late summer, we'd like to pass on a few very warm event recommendations. It's all about chamber music, contemporary music and an inclusive theater production. Sprinkled with more concerts, cinema and painting robots...
Yours sincerely, HfMT
(which is already preparing for the start of the semester on October 1)
GREAT LOVE FOR CHAMBER MUSIC
Of particular delicacy, intimacy and expressiveness ... / ... a conversation between friends ... / ... characterized by communication and interaction between the individual players ... Chamber music occupies a special place among musical genres and is considered by many - audiences and musicians alike - to be the supreme discipline.
Niklas Schmidt recognized it early on as his vocation and purpose in life, set his musical focus here and committed himself to it throughout his entire career as a cellist, chamber musician and university professor, not only by performing worldwide as an outstanding and successful chamber musician himself, but also by accompanying, promoting and shaping generations of young musicians in their development. After almost 40 years, Prof. Niklas Schmidt will be leaving our university on September 30 and entering a new phase of his life with his retirement.
In his honor, we are creating a musical farewell salute.
Les Adieux à Niklas Schmidt on 22.9. in the Forum
MEETING AT EYE LEVEL
A very special collaboration awaits us at Wiesendamm at the end of the month, when two HfMT postgraduates meet the Minotaurs - the inclusive theater ensemble of the Elbe-Werkstätten - as a directing duo in "collective inclusive staging work", thereby shifting conventions of theater work and opening up spaces between social constructs.
With its absurd humor, Pilk's Madhouse by Ken Campbell (1973) serves as a template for an evening in which logic and seriousness are suspended. The ensemble gets lost in 16 absurd mini-dramas through boredom, fear and the daily conflict with a neurotypical reality. Between waiters, cowboys and cracks in reality, themes ranging from departure to suicide swirl around.
ART IS NOT A LUXURY
In view of the increasing cuts in cultural funding in many places, Hamburg Contemporary wants to make a musical statement - loud, alert and unmistakable. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity. Let's make music as if it were the last concert - so that many more can follow.
From September 22 to 28, 2025, the HfMT will be dedicated to contemporary music with the International Academy Contemporary and the Days of Contemporary Music. Scholarship holders meet visiting composer Philipp Mainz, meet the ensembles LUX:NM and RADAR Quartett, meet the composers of the HfMT and present three outstanding concerts in this context.
FURTHER TIPS
With Light and Line pianists Daria Podushko and Matteo Weber will give a piano recital at the Ernst Barlach Haus on September 21 to mark Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday.
In the series Movies meet Music series takes us back to the Savoy Filmtheater on September 22 with the historical film Barry Lyndon by director Stanley Kubrick.
The JazzHall brings us some final concerts. You can see bassist Jair Gonzales on 23.9., bassist Julian Eingang on 25.9., guitarist Lucas Etcheverria on 26.9. and another Latin session on 27.9..
As part of a workshop at ligeti zentrum on 25.9., course participants can control a painting robot using movements and physical forms of expression.
And under the title Songs to the guitar Frauke Aulbert (vocals), Gisbert Watty (guitar) and Katharina Brenner (recitation) will be performing newly discovered songs and some world premieres of the complete works by Brecht/Dessau at the Rudolf Steiner Haus on September 26.
FOLGEN SIE UNS!
