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Current news

10.02.2026

Sound collages by students in the exhibition ‘Archistories. Architecture in Art.’

29.01.2026

Update: SWR3 visits the university of music

27.01.2026

Audience and critics thrilled by New Year's Concert

25.01.2026

SWR3 visits the University of Music

23.01.2026

Hovik Sardaryan receives Siemens Music Foundation Award

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!

Audience and critics thrilled by New Year's Concert

The symphonic wind orchestra of the University of Music, conducted by José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, played American dances and works with Spanish flavour. Read more ...

Hovik Sardaryan receives Siemens Music Foundation Award

Hovik Sardaryan, who did his master's degree in composition from 2015 to 2018 in Wolfgang Rihm's class, is one of this year's Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation award winners in the com... Read more …

Ars legendi Prize 2025 goes to Elisabeth Theisohn

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Theisohn has been awarded the Ars legendi Prize 2025. The prize, awarded by the Stifterverband, is given this year for excellence in university teaching on the subject of democracy... 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 ... ...

Masaya Kamei beim Concours Reine Elisabeth

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

Upcoming events

February '26

27.

Mittagskonzert

Pianorecital – Charity concert to preserve the "Kleine Kirche"

Works byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Alexander ScriabinFeaturingThomas Doyeong Kim, piano

Friday, 12:15 PM

Kleine Kirche

Eventtype: Klaviermusik · Piano Music

February '26

28.

15th Philharmonic Concert

Junge Philharmonie Karlsruhe

Works byYangkai Lin (World Premiere), Lili Boulanger, Richard Strauss and Sergei RachmaninoffFeaturingRiley Court-Wood conductorJunge Philharmonie KarlsruheProgrammeLili Boulanger (1893–1918) D’un matin de printempsYangkai Lin (born 2001) Im Schwung des Pinsels (In the Swing of the Brush) * World premiereRichard Strauss (1864–1949) Four Last Songs 1. Spring (text: Hermann Hesse) 2. September (text: Hermann Hesse) 3. At Bedtime (text: Hermann Hesse) 4. In the… Weiterlesen

Saturday, 07:30 PM

CampusOne · Wolfgang-Rihm-Forum

Eventtype: Sinfonische Musik · Symphonic Music

March '26

Pianorecital

Works byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel und Alexander ScriabinFeaturingThomas Doyeong Kim, piano

Tuesday, 07:00 PM

Seniorenzentrum Oberreut

Eventtype: Klaviermusik · Piano Music

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