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Current news

23.11.2025

Four prizes at the Wolfgang Hofmann-Competition

11.11.2025

DAAD Prize for Ihor Panchenko

11.11.2025

Prizes at the 11th Carl Bechstein Competition

05.11.2025

Action Day November 27, 2025 – ART. POWER. HUMANITY

31.10.2025

Preliminary reports on ‘Haus Wahnsinn’ at Treffpunkt Klassik on SWR Kultur and in BNN newspaper

With Wagner, through Wagner, and beyond him.

A project by the Karlsruhe University of Music that operates at the intersection of scientific and artistic research. RIWA26 is online!

Action Day November 27, 2025 – ART. POWER. HUMANITY

An internal university event on Campus One

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Study Information Day on November 19, 2025

High school students

Wagner Weekend

as part of RIWA 26

Event calendar for the 2025-2026 winter semester now online

We eagerly await the start of the 2025-2026 winter semester! You can now get an overview of our concerts, opera performances, discussion formats, masterclasses and much more. Read more...

Robin Paillet und Sandro Hirsch ARD Wettbewerb

2 winners of the trumpet class at the ARD competition

At the ARD International Music Competition in the trumpet category, Prof. Reinhold Friedrich's class at the Karlsruhe University of Music can celebrate winning the top two prizes. Read more ... ...

ZeitGenuss FESTIVAL FOR MUSIC OF OUR TIME has begun

"bring your own reality" - under this motto, the music festival ZeitGenuss - Festival for Music of our Time of the City of Karlsruhe 2025 opens up a space
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Two first prizes at the Dr Hermann Büttner Piano Competition 2025

Since 1998, the Dr Hermann Büttner Piano Competition has been organised annually by the lawyer named after him. Since 2017 Read more ...

Music Informatics students visit the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN

Music Informatics students went on an excursion to Geneva to visit the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN. Prof. Markus Klute (KIT) and Michael Hoch (CERN) had invited the students Read more ...

Masaya Kamei beim Concours Reine Elisabeth

Masaya Kamei has won fifth prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth.

Gerda Iguchi wins Audience Award at the first Art Song Challenge

Symphony concert with James Gaffigan on 24 and 25 may

We are delighted to welcome James Gaffigan, an important contemporary conductor, to our university. As chief conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin and music director at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sof... Read more...

Happy children and selfies with Rusalka

Premiere of the children's opera was a complete success

When do you get the chance to take a photo with a little mermaid?
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Prof. Sontraud Speidel receives the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Short audio pieces from Schwetzingen Palace Gardens

Produced by the music journalists of the IMJ

Workshop day on 15 November 2025

For all interested parties from Year 10 onwards

Upcoming events

December '25

Ilia Korol · Violin · Chamber music · Historical performance practice

KARLSRUHER MASTERCLASSES December 8–10, 2025

BiographyIlia Korol comes from Kiev, studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Abraham Stern, Gelya Dubrova and Marina Iashvili and has lived in Austria since 1997. He played with Musica Antiqua Köln, is concertmaster of the Orchestra Wiener Akademie, of Musica Angelica L.A. (USA), of the Bach Ensemble Joshua Rifkin, of the Spanish Baroque Orchestra RCOC and is also a member of the Ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria and the Clemencic Consort. In 2006 he was "guest leader" of Musica Antiqua Köln on a… Weiterlesen

Monday, 10:00 AM

CampusOne - Schloss Gottesaue · Raum 109

Eventtype: Karlsruher Meisterklassen · Karlsruhe Masterclasses

December '25

PRIMA Abend · trumpet

class Prof. Reinhold Friedrich

Works byOskar Böhme · Joseph Haydn · Johann Nepomuk Hummel · André Jolivet · Gabriel Parès · Francis ThoméFeaturingStudents of the class Prof. Reinhold Friedrich

Monday, 06:30 PM

CampusOne - Schloss Gottesaue · Genuit-Saal · 2. OG

Eventtype: Solo- und Ensemblemusik · Solo and Ensemble Music

December '25

PRIMA Abend · piano ‘Diverse soundscapes’

classes Prof. Sontraud Speidel and Prof. Olga Rissin-Morenova

Works byJoseph Haydn • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Ludwig van Beethoven • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy • Franz Schubert • Frédéric Chopin • Franz Liszt • Alexander Scriabin • Maurice Ravel • Dmitri ShostakovichFeaturingStudents of the classes Prof. Sontraud Speidel and Prof. Olga Rissin-Morenova

Monday, 07:00 PM

CampusOne - Schloss Gottesaue · Velte-Saal

Eventtype: Klaviermusik · Piano Music

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