Stu­dy KAM: Fact sheet En­sem­ble Neue Mu­sik

• Ba­che­lor KAM (elec­tive ca­ta­log)
• Mas­ter KAM (elec­tive ca­ta­log)

The En­sem­ble

The En­sem­ble Neue Mu­sik of the HfMDK de­ve­lops and per­forms im­portant en­sem­ble works of the last 50 ye­ars as well as new works by mem­bers of the com­po­si­ti­on clas­ses. In ad­di­ti­on, pro­gram re­quests from par­ti­ci­pa­ting, in­te­rested stu­dents can be ac­cep­ted and im­ple­men­ted. Prof. Lu­cas Fels and Prof. Dr. Ul­rich Krepp­ein are re­spon­si­ble for the sub­ject.

Ar­tis­tic plan­ning is car­ri­ed out by an en­sem­ble com­mis­si­on con­sis­ting of Prof. Lu­cas Fels, Prof. Dr. Ul­rich Krepp­ein, Chris­toph Alt­sta­edt as well as Dr. Ka­rin Diet­rich, Prof. Jaan Bos­sier, Prof. Flo­ri­an Höl­scher or Prof. Chris­toph Brandt and two stu­dents, one each from the fields of com­po­si­ti­on and KAM.

The en­sem­ble usual­ly de­ve­lops one pro­gram per se­mes­ter.

Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on form

In­te­rested stu­dents re­gis­ter for the re­spec­tive pro­gram via a re­gis­tra­ti­on form, which is sent by e-mail in the Ar­tis­tic Mu­sic Stu­dies cour­ses and is also avail­ab­le on the web­site. Re­gis­tra­ti­ons are ma­na­ged by the con­duc­ting stu­dio as­si­stant (di­ri­gier­ate­lier@orga.hfmdk-frank­furt.de)

The pro­grams are de­si­gned in parts with a lead time of one year, which me­ans that the frame­work is fi­xed for the long term. The ap­p­li­ca­ti­on dead­line is at the end of each se­mes­ter for the fol­lo­wing se­mes­ter (July 31 for the win­ter se­mes­ter, Ja­nu­a­ry 31 for the sum­mer se­mes­ter).

Stu­dents with an or­ches­tral ob­li­ga­ti­on who could not be as­si­gned to the uni­ver­si­ty or­ches­tra and who would like to pro­vi­de sub­sti­tu­te per­for­man­ces via the En­sem­ble Neue Mu­sik can still ap­p­ly for par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on im­me­dia­te­ly af­ter the pu­bli­ca­ti­on of the or­ches­tra as­sign­ments at the be­gin­ning of a se­mes­ter. The ma­nage­ment of the en­sem­ble also en­dea­vors to in­te­gra­te the­se stu­dents. For this pur­po­se, the­re are parts of the pro­gram that are de­ter­mi­ned at short no­ti­ce.

Plea­se re­fer to the re­le­vant fact sheet on or­ches­tra al­lo­ca­ti­on and sub­sti­tu­tes.

Par­ti­ci­pa­ting stu­dents are in­vi­ted to work tog­e­ther with mem­bers of the com­po­si­ti­on clas­ses who wri­te works for the en­sem­ble. This con­cerns de­ve­lop­ment work in the area of play­ing tech­ni­ques, feed­back on no­ta­ti­on or a try-out of sket­ches.

Dates

• for con­certs are pu­blished on the uni­ver­si­ty­'s web­site.
• par­ti­ci­pants will be in­for­med of the dates for rehe­ar­sals at the be­gin­ning of the se­mes­ter.

Credit trans­fer op­ti­ons

• In the elec­tive area of the Ar­tis­tic Trai­ning in Mu­sic de­gree pro­grams. The si­gna­tu­re is pro­vi­ded by the di­rec­tor of the New Mu­sic En­sem­ble.
• Stu­dents with or­ches­tra as a com­pul­so­ry sub­ject who have not been al­lo­ca­ted to the uni­ver­si­ty or­ches­tra can take part in the New Mu­sic En­sem­ble in­s­tead. If you are in­te­rested, plea­se re­gis­ter via the re­gis­tra­ti­on form or di­rec­t­ly in the con­duc­ting stu­dio as soon as the or­ches­tral line-up is pu­blished. The en­sem­ble pro­ject can then be re­co­gni­zed in the sub­ject or­ches­tra (com­pul­so­ry sec­tion). In this case, the si­gna­tu­re will be is­sued by the or­ches­tra of­fice at the end of the se­mes­ter.
• Upon ap­p­li­ca­ti­on, par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the New Mu­sic En­sem­ble can also be re­co­gni­zed as cham­ber mu­sic (com­pul­so­ry sub­ject), es­pe­ci­al­ly if the in­stru­ments are pri­ma­ri­ly used in an en­sem­ble con­text. In this case, a pro­fes­sor from the cham­ber mu­sic de­part­ment will sign the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on.
• Stu­dents who choo­se a spe­cia­li­za­ti­on in New Mu­sic for their Mas­ter's de­gree par­ti­ci­pa­te in the En­sem­ble Neue Mu­sik for two se­mes­ters. Stu­dents with a spe­cia­li­za­ti­on will be gi­ven pre­fe­ren­ti­al con­si­de­ra­ti­on in terms of in­stru­men­ta­ti­on and pro­gramming.

To. Di­rec­to­ra­te of Ar­tis­tic Mu­sic Stu­dies, Prof. Flo­ri­an Höl­scher
Frank­furt am Main, July 2024