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21.07.2026
Jeremias Burk, a Master’s student in Prof. Tatjana Vassiljewa-Monnier’s cello class, will become a permanent member of the Ulm Philharmonic Orchestra from September 2026.Jeremias Burk was born in Bad Tölz in 1999 and received his first music lessons on the piano at the age of six. At the age of seven, he began playing the cello and was taught by Martina Trost-Gelse. Accepted into the programme for gifted pupils at the Pliezhausen Music School, Jeremias gained experience in regular concert… Weiterlesen
16.07.2026
Two prizes at the Carl Flesch Academy Lara Eberitzsch, a pre-college student studying violin with Prof. Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, has won the Werner Stiefel Prize. This main prize is worth 3,500 euros and includes a solo concert performance at the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Hall as part of the season opening of the Patronage Society for Theatre and Philharmonic Hall Baden-Baden on Saturday, 19 September 2026, 10.30–11.30 am.Hana Rabadan, a Bachelor’s student in Prof. László Fenyő’s cello… Weiterlesen
14.07.2026
Jaehyeok Choi, a Master’s student in Prof. Markus Hechtle’s composition class, has won first prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in Tokyo.Juror Jörg Widmann on the award-winning work: Jaehyeok Choi’s Supernova for Orchestra is an almost classic example of highly nuanced, meticulously crafted orchestration and instrumentation. What stands out most here is the logic and consistency of its structure. The piece steadfastly adheres to a single motif of aphoristic conciseness — a small,… Weiterlesen
14.07.2026
Daniela Kerck, Head of Staging at the Institute for Music Theatre, is an internationally acclaimed director. Her production of Schumann’s secular oratorio "Paradise and the Peri", performed at the Konzerthaus La Seine Musicale in Paris was recorded in its entirety by arte and can now be viewed on the arte media library.The story in brief: As the daughter of a fallen angel and a mortal, Peri – the Persian word for ‘fairy’ or ‘elf’ – is forced to wander between heaven and earth. To gain entry to… Weiterlesen
12.07.2026
Verdi’s "Messa da Requiem", conducted by Prof. Matthias Beckert and performed by the HfM choir and orchestra alongside student soloists at the Christuskirche, won over both the audience and the critics. Claus-Dieter Hanauer, writing in Pamina magazine, praised the choir: “The approximately 80 singers – whose line-up is, of course, subject to regular change – are capable of an enormous range, from the whispered, almost stammered ‘Requiem aeternam dona eis’ at the beginning of the Introit to… Weiterlesen