2004 - 2022

Under the presidency of Prof. Elmar Lampson since 2004, the HfMT is one of the founding members of the network of music universities for quality management and teaching development. In August 2014, the HfMT was also successfully certified as a "family-friendly university".

At the beginning of 2015, the HfMT concluded a partnership agreement with the four largest music universities in Beijing and Shanghai as a sign of its solidarity with the Chinese music universities. At the heart of this agreement is a joint one-year "International Master's Degree Course" and a program for visiting students.

Since 1982, the University of Music and Drama has also been home to the "Eventim Pop Course" (originally "Popular Music Model Experiment"), Germany's first contact course for popular music, which has produced a large number of successful musicians and bands to date, including singer and actress Ute Lemper and the German rock band "Wir sind Helden".

With your project proposal Alphi Stage_2.0: Alsterphilharmonie. The stage as a place of artistic knowledge transfer and social participation, the HfMT was able to win the nationwide funding competition in July 2017. It is the only arts university in Germany to be among the 48 universities selected for funding in 19 individual and 10 joint projects and will receive millions in additional funding over the next five years. 168 universities had applied.

In June 2015, the HfMT and its quality management system applied to the accreditation agency ZEvA for a system accreditation procedure. On November 7, 2017, ZEvA's Standing Accreditation Commission finally made a positive decision. Since then, all degree programs that have undergone the university's internal accreditation procedure are considered accredited. For the future, this means that the university will be able to set up and accredit degree programs independently without having to have the usual program accreditations of individual degree programs carried out by external agencies.

Between 2015 and 2017, the existing premises on the Outer Alster were completely renovated and numerous additional rooms were added. In autumn 2019, the university opened a second campus in Barmbek for the Theater Academy and Culture and Media Management.