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Current news

19.09.2025

Prizes at the 5th International Helmut Deutsch Song Competition

18.09.2025

2 winners of the trumpet class at the ARD competition

15.09.2025

WORKSHOP DAY 2025

10.09.2025

Teachers from the Karlsruhe University of Music visit Brazil

09.09.2025

First prize at the 1st International ‘Nora Loukidou’ Piano Competition 2025

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 ... ...

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...

Wagner Weekend

as part of RIWA 26

Workshop day on 15 November 2025

For all interested parties from Year 10 onwards

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

Upcoming events

October '25

Final Concert

2nd International Ensemble Academy

Works byHeinrich Schütz, Gioacchino Rossini, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Anton von Webern and Olivier MessiaenFeaturingStudents of the singing classes at the universities of music in Karlsruhe, Vilnius and ZagrebVocalensemble RastattConductor Prof. Holger Speck Gryta Tatorytė PianoXinyuan Zhang OrganProgrammeHeinrich Schütz (1585-1672) An den Wassern zu Babel SWV 37Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) O Sacrum conviviumAnton von Webern (1883-1945) … Weiterlesen

Tuesday, 07:30 PM

CampusOne · Wolfgang-Rihm-Forum

Eventtype: Chormusik · Choral Music

October '25

Mittwochs um 5

Dialogue without words

Works byJohann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eugène Ysaÿe, Bohuslav Martinů and Paul HindemithFeaturingProf. Christel Lee violinProf. German Tcakulov viola ProgrammeJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Inventions (selection) BWV 772-786Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Duo for violin and viola in B flat major KV4241. Adagio allegro2. andante cantabile3. tema con variazioni. Andante grazioso - Allegretto - AllegroEugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)Sonata for violin solo No. 5 in G major op.27/… Weiterlesen

Wednesday, 05:00 PM

Badische Landesbibliothek

Eventtype: Mittwochs um 5

October '25

Academic Ceremony

Opening of the winter semester 2025/26

Works byAkira Miyoshi, Annelies van Parys , Maria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa von Bayern, Cajus Grabmeier, Moritz Laßmann, Luise Adolpha Le Beau a.o.ProgrammeAkira Miyoshi (1933-2013)Étude ConcertanteHirono Tago und Seijiro Nagai SchlagzeugAnnelies Van Parys (*1975)Savoir Comment (2004/2005)Auftragskomposition des BR für den 74. Musik-Wettbewerb der ARDNN TrompeteMaria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa von Bayern (1724-1780)Aus de Oper „Il trionfo della fedelta“Cláudia Pereira… Weiterlesen

Thursday, 06:00 PM

CampusOne · Wolfgang-Rihm-Forum

Eventtype: Akademische Veranstaltungen · Academic events

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