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12.07.2022
The Tostino Quartet is the winner of this year's String Quartet Lab at the Karlsruhe University of Music. With their presentation of the 4th movement from Joseph Haydn's String Quartet op. 74 No. 3 and the String Quartet No. 8 op. 110 by Dmitri D. Shostakovich, the four young musicians convinced the audience. Gregory Ciesla, Jay Wan, Hansol Lee and Konstantin Pointner had solved the task – namely not only to play, but also to present what they had learned in the laboratory – most convincingly… Weiterlesen
22.06.2022
The SAM · ComputerStudio and students of the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology are represented at the festival next_generation 9.0, the meeting of university studios for electronic music. There, young composers from the field of electronic music get the chance to present their new compositions. This year the participants come from Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland. For four days, concerts and installations can be attended at various locations in the ZKM. These events will be… Weiterlesen
06.06.2022
The singer Thomas Hampson has been appointed honorary professor at the Karlsruhe University of Music. In doing so, the Hochschule honors the artist's great services to the musical training and education of young artistic personalities, and in particular his commitment to the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Awarded Met Mastersinger by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Gramophone, Thomas Hampson is one of the most… Weiterlesen
23.05.2022
String Quartet Lab starts in July With a new teaching offer for quartets, the string section would like to enable interested students to deal intensively with string chamber music for a week. The teaching quartet is the vision string quartet, Berlin. The String Quartet Lab will take place from 4 to 9 July 2022 and will end with the awarding of the audience prize of the Sparkassen Kulturstiftung for the best quartet. The aim is above all to create an occasion for encounters and exchange between… Weiterlesen
12.05.2022
From the winter semester 2022-2023, the Karlsruhe University of Music will have a new rector. The election of the Senate and the University Council on May 11 fell by an overwhelming majority on Prof. Dr. Matthias Wiegandt, who has already been teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 2004. He is Professor of Music History and Musicology and currently Prorector for Teaching, Study and Examination Affairs. In October, he will succeed Prof. Hartmut Höll, who has led the Hochschule for… Weiterlesen