Cham­ber mu­sic

The en­sem­ble cul­tu­re is held in the hig­hest es­te­em at the HfMDK, it shapes the uni­ver­si­ty and links stu­dents from all de­part­ments. What this leads to is shown not least by the many suc­cess­ful new en­sem­bles foun­ded by stu­dents, such as the string quar­tets Aris Quar­tett and Eli­ot Quar­tett or the Gut­freund Pia­no Trio.

Pro­gres­si­ve ide­as, in­ter­na­tio­nal suc­cess

Wi­t­hout sound trai­ning, a sup­por­ti­ve, open at­mo­s­phe­re, col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons and pro­gres­si­ve ide­as, such suc­ces­ses would be al­most in­con­ceiva­ble. We the­re­fo­re at­tach the ut­most im­por­t­an­ce to the­se fac­tors: we re­gard cham­ber mu­sic at the HfMDK as the ba­sis of all mu­sic-ma­king and as a work­shop for ex­cel­lent en­sem­ble play­ing, working door to door with the In­sti­tu­te for Con­tem­pora­ry Mu­sic IzM as well as the cour­ses in In­ter­pre­ti­ve Prac­tice and Tea­ching of New Mu­sic and His­to­ri­cal In­ter­pre­ta­ti­on Prac­tice (HIP)

The So­cie­ty of Fri­ends and Pa­trons of the HfMDK also con­tri­bu­tes in­stru­ments for suc­cess - in the tru­est sen­se of the word: sin­ce 2020, it has pro­vi­ded a high-qua­li­ty string quar­tet on per­ma­nent loan for the cham­ber mu­sic trai­ning.

In­di­vi­du­al pro­files in pia­no cham­ber mu­sic and string cham­ber mu­sic

The Mas­ter's pro­gram is di­rec­ted by Prof. An­ge­li­ka Merk­le (pia­no cham­ber mu­sic) and Prof. Tim Vog­ler (string cham­ber mu­sic). A con­cert exam can be ob­tai­ned in each of the two spe­cia­li­za­ti­ons.

All stu­dents de­ve­lop their own ar­tis­tic pro­fi­le - re­gard­less of whe­ther they see their fu­ture in an en­sem­ble, an or­ches­tra or in mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on.

Pia­no cham­ber mu­sic and string cham­ber mu­sic can be cho­sen as fo­cal points in the cour­se of stu­dy, wher­e­by in both ca­ses the fol­lo­wing ap­p­lies: en­sem­bles will al­ways find a sta­ge - both wi­t­hin the uni­ver­si­ty and, for examp­le, wi­t­hin the frame­work of the Cham­ber Mu­sic Com­pe­ti­ti­on of the Po­ly­tech­nic So­cie­ty, the Len­zew­ski Com­pe­ti­ti­on, at "Mu­sik im Pal­men­gar­ten" in Frank­furt and the Rhein­gau Mu­sic Fes­ti­val.