Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
University of music in Hamburg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg | |
 Hochschule für Musik und Theater Budge residence | |
Former names | State University of Music (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik) |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1950 |
| Students | 750 |
| Location | , |
| Website | http://www.hfmt-hamburg.de |
It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik (Public college of music) on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.
Courses cover various musical genres, including church music, jazz, pop, composition, conducting, instrumental music as well as voice. The theatre academy offers courses in drama and opera and directing in these fields. A third academy offers scientific and educational degrees and qualifications (musicology, music education and therapy).
The university is located in the prestigious Budge-Palais in Hamburg Rotherbaum at the Außenalster, close to the city centre.
Directors
- Philipp Jarnach (1950–59)
- Wilhelm Maler (1959–69)
- Hajo Hinrichs (1969–78)
- Hermann Rauhe (1978–2004)
- Michael von Troschke (April to October 2004)
- Elmar Lampson (since October 2004)
Faculty
- Beatrix Borchard, musicology (from 2002)
- Margot Guilleaume, voice (1950–78)
- György Ligeti, composition (1973–1988)
- Henny Wolff, voice (1950–1964)
- Heinz Wunderlich, organ (1919–2012)
Former students
- Erdoğan Atalay
- Ingrid Bachér
- Lisa Batiashvili
- Hermann Baumann
- Dagmar Berghoff
- Oliver Bendt
- Christian Bruhn
- Margit Carstensen
- Unsuk Chin
- Xiaoyong Chen
- Marko Ciciliani
- Angela Denoke
- Justus von Dohnányi
- Christoph Eschenbach
- Justus Frantz
- Evelyn Hamann
- Hannelore Hoger
- Olga Jegunova
- Peter Jordan
- Toshiyuki Kamioka
- Wiebke Lehmkuhl
- Susanne Lothar
- Marie-Luise Marjan
- Günther Morbach
- Talia Or
- Corinna von Rad
- Ivan Rebroff
- Dorothea Röschmann
- Catherine Rückwardt
- Tanja Tetzlaff
- Iris Vermillion
See also
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