Composer Ulrich Kreppein and violinist Tim Vogler elected as new Vice Presidents

Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts (HfMDK) is ma­king a chan­ge in its lea­dership: Yes­ter­day, the ex­ten­ded Se­na­te elec­ted two new Vice Pre­si­dents, who will join the uni­ver­si­ty ma­nage­ment for a term of three ye­ars from De­cem­ber 1, 2025. Prof. Dr. Ul­rich Krepp­ein and Prof. Tim Vog­ler will join the pre­si­di­um un­der the lea­dership of Pre­si­dent Prof. El­mar Ful­da.

The Pre­si­den­t's no­mi­na­ti­ons were con­fir­med by the ex­ten­ded Se­na­te - Pre­si­dent El­mar Ful­da ex­pres­sed his gra­ti­tu­de and con­fi­dence: "Our de­mo­cra­ti­cal­ly con­sti­tu­ted uni­ver­si­ties thri­ve on the com­mit­ment of uni­ver­si­ty mem­bers. I am de­light­ed that Mr. Krepp­ein and Mr. Vog­ler are pre­pa­red to take on re­spon­si­bi­li­ty for the fu­ture of the HfMDK. I am very much loo­king for­ward to working with them. At the same time, I would like to thank the pre­vious Vice Pre­si­dents Prof. Ingo Diehl - es­pe­ci­al­ly for his two terms in of­fice - and Prof. Cars­ten Wie­busch for their gre­at com­mit­ment over the past ye­ars."

Prof. Dr. Ul­rich Krepp­ein will be Vice Pre­si­dent for Qua­li­ty De­ve­lop­ment in Tea­ching and Re­se­arch. He has been tea­ching as Pro­fes­sor of Com­po­si­ti­on and Mu­sic Theo­ry at the HfMDK sin­ce 2022 and is, among other things, cour­se di­rec­tor for the coope­ra­ti­ve stu­dy pro­gram with En­sem­ble Mo­dern. In ad­di­ti­on, he has in­itia­ted an ex­chan­ge with the Man­hat­tan School of Mu­sic in New York and rea­li­zed it in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with com­po­sers and mu­si­ci­ans from both in­sti­tu­ti­ons. He has also in­itia­ted a con­fe­rence on trai­ning for new mu­sic thea­ter.

Ul­rich Krepp­ein holds a doc­to­ra­te from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and works as a com­po­ser. Man­fred Tro­jahn, Tris­tan Mu­rail, Hel­mut La­chen­mann and Cha­ya Czer­no­win were in­flu­en­ti­al fi­gu­res in his ar­tis­tic de­ve­lop­ment. He is cur­r­ent­ly com­ple­ting the com­po­si­ti­on of a new ope­ra, the pre­mie­re of which is being made pos­si­ble by the Ernst von Sie­mens Mu­sic Foun­da­ti­on.

As Vice Pre­si­dent, he con­ti­nues the con­cep­tu­al de­ve­lop­ment of the de­gree pro­grams and is re­spon­si­ble for eva­lua­ti­on and ac­credi­ta­ti­on as well as streng­t­he­ning re­se­arch in­itia­ti­ves at the uni­ver­si­ty. He looks for­ward to his new po­si­ti­on in hig­her edu­ca­ti­on po­li­cy with con­fi­dence:

Prof. Tim Vog­ler ta­kes on the role of part-time Vice Pre­si­dent for Stu­dies, Tea­ching and Ar­tis­tic Pro­jec­ts. Tog­e­ther with the Stu­dent Ser­vices de­part­ment, he is re­spon­si­ble for stu­dent ma­nage­ment and the frame­work con­di­ti­ons for tea­ching and ex­ami­na­ti­ons. He also works on the Board of Di­rec­tors of the In­sti­tu­te of Con­tem­pora­ry Mu­sic and is re­spon­si­ble for the de­ve­lop­ment of ar­tis­tic pro­jec­ts.

Tim Vog­ler stu­di­ed vio­lin at the Hanns Eis­ler School of Mu­sic in Ber­lin and in Cin­cin­na­ti. His for­ma­ti­ve men­tors in­clu­de im­portant ar­tis­tic per­so­na­li­ties such as Eber­hard Feltz, Sán­dor Végh, Wal­ter Le­vin, Györ­gy Kur­tág and Hedi Gig­ler.

This year, he looks back on the 40th an­ni­ver­s­a­ry of the Vog­ler Quar­tet, which he foun­ded and which has been per­forming with the same line-up sin­ce 1985 and is one of the most re­now­ned string quar­tets on the in­ter­na­tio­nal cham­ber mu­sic sce­ne un­der his ar­tis­tic di­rec­tion.

Tim Vog­ler has been Pro­fes­sor of String Cham­ber Mu­sic at the HfMDK sin­ce 2017. The en­sem­bles he su­per­vi­ses - in­clu­ding the Eli­ot, Ma­li­on, Fa­brik, Oxa­lis and Liv Quar­tets - have long sin­ce gai­ned na­tio­nal re­co­gni­ti­on. Vog­ler has also ta­ken on re­spon­si­bi­li­ty in va­rious func­tions wi­t­hin the aca­de­mic self-ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on and gai­ned va­lu­able ex­pe­ri­ence. He is now ta­king on a new role as Vice Pre­si­dent of the HfMDK - a task he is loo­king for­ward to with gre­at en­thu­si­asm.

Other mem­bers of the Pre­si­di­um are Chan­cellor Kers­tin Hort-Schelm, who heads the ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on, full-time Vice Pre­si­dent Bri­git­te Bin­der, who dri­ves uni­ver­si­ty de­ve­lop­ment and di­gi­ta­li­za­ti­on, and Pre­si­dent Prof. El­mar Ful­da.

Loo­king at the chal­len­ges of the co­m­ing ye­ars, Prof. Ful­da em­pha­si­zes the im­por­t­an­ce of a strong ma­nage­ment team: