Past Events

WELT | KLANG | FEST

May 1st 2025
Hamburg, Germany HfMT Welt|Klang|Fest

Artists

  • Lee Juyeon (soprano)
  • JANG Changwook (tenor)
  • Áron Musitz (piano)
  • ZHOU Xueli (sopran)
  • Camilla Pilla Arnese (piano)
  • KWON Leeseok (baritone)
  • Sarah Quitt (piano)
  • Antonia Brinkers (soprano)
  • Negin Razzaghi (soprano)
  • LIU Zhuoling
  • Dulguun Chinchuluun (piano)
  • HISATOKU Sumire (piano)
  • KURODA Mao (soprano)
  • Prof. Burkhard Kehring (piano / moderation)
  • and many others

Languages

  • German, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish
  • Farsi, Arab, Korean, Chinese, Mongolian, Indonesian, Japanese

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and what was once founded as a place of learning and training for classical music is now a lively, international space for artistic learning and research - open to diversity, change and new worlds of sound.
With the World | Sound | Festival, we want to make this spirit audible; we do not see music as a closed form, but as a dialogue between cultures, generations and traditions. Our students and teachers come from over 40 nations - they all bring their musical roots, languages and stories with them. This creates a space for exchange and encounters.
On this evening, musical traditions from all over the world come together, with Western art music on an equal footing with Balinese gamelan, Persian ud, Brazilian baroque and Korean pansori. This is not a ‘crossover’, but an audible plea for respect - for one's own and for others. Music as an invitation to listen, to marvel, to pause.
Together with musicians from Hamburg communities and students of the HfMT, a concert of change is created that makes boundaries permeable - between stage and everyday life, origin and present, sound and body. Living musical languages come together - without the pressure to translate, but with genuine mutual interest.
This not only raises the question of how music can sound today - it is also about what we can learn from each other.

Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick,
President

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

March 24th 2025
Lübeck, Germany Europäisches Hansemuseum Click here for listening to NDR Live Broadcast

Artists

  • Michaela Kaune (soprano)
  • Friederike Westerhaus (moderation)
  • Burkhard Kehring (piano)

Composers

  • Clara Schumann
  • Regine Wieniawski
  • Edvard Grieg
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Reynaldo Hahn
  • Alban Berg

Languages

  • German
  • French
  • Norwegian

NDR FOYER CONCERT

A radio lecture recital with conversations about the origins and perspectives of European song.

LIEDFORUM: WEST! OST!

February 12th 2025
Hamburg, Germany HfMT Forum

Artists

  • Morgane Solinac (soprano)
  • Laetitia Dodé (piano)
  • Mariana Gomes (soprano)
  • Antonia Brinkers (soprano)
  • Sarah Quitt (piano)
  • Leeseok Kwon (baritone)
  • Seungwoo Sun (baritone)
  • Thomas Ruan (piano)
  • Hyeonseo Lee (soprano)
  • Áron Musitz (piano)
  • Hongping Ruan (soprano)
  • Prof. Burkhard Kehring (moderation)

Composers

  • Hong Kim
  • Doonam Jo
  • Marcos Portugal
  • Pauline Viardot-Garcia
  • Clara Faist
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Sergej Rachmaninoff
  • Modest Moussorgsky
  • Richard Strauss
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Franz Schubert

Languages

  • Korean
  • Portugese
  • Russian
  • French
  • German

Global Art Song Conference

March 14th 16th 2024
Freiburg im Breisgau Hochschule für Musik

Artists

  • Ido Ariel
  • Phillip Burnett
  • Julia Byl
  • Patricia Caicedo
  • Ercüment Çelik
  • Joys Cheung
  • Christopher Flaskamp
  • Shannon Foster
  • Sandeep Gurrapadi
  • Amanda Harris
  • Kira Henkel
  • Lena van der Hoven
  • Amanda Hsieh
  • Sophie Hunold
  • Nina Kanter
  • Burkhard Kehring
  • Natasha Loges
  • Cüneyt-Ersin Mıhçı
  • Sharifah Mohammed
  • Olabode Omojola
  • Julian Prégardien
  • Camilla Pilla-Arnese
  • Chris van Rhyn
  • Jennifer Ronyak
  • Franziska Scheinpflug
  • AJ Villanueva
  • a.o.

Languages

  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • English
  • Farsi
  • Hebrew
  • Korean
  • German
  • Polish
  • Portugese
  • a.o.

Sylter Liederwoche / Lieder Week Sylt

July 10th 17th 2023
Sylt / Germany Akademie am Meer Klappholttal

Artists

  • Vlada Koieva (soprano)
  • Yuliia Seckler (piano)
  • Volodymyr Milushkin (baritone)
  • Mariana Popova (piano)
  • Anna Felita Ekaputri (soprano)
  • Hai Zhang (clarinet)
  • Anton Bovensmann (piano)
  • Mina Yu (soprano)
  • Gyeongtaek Lee (piano)
  • Burkhard Kehring (piano, moderation)

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Ukrainian
  • Korean

In Focus Iran

November 27th 2022
Hamburg Forum HfMT

Artists

  • Ali Abbasi
  • Michel Abdollahi
  • Atena Eshtiaghi
  • Clara Haberkamp
  • Mehdi Jalali
  • Iman Jesmi
  • Asal Karimi
  • Burkhard Kehring
  • Niloufar Nourbakhsh
  • Muriel Razavi
  • Aida Shirazi
  • Yalda Yazdani
  • Yalda Zamani
  • a.o.

Languages

  • Farsi
  • German
  • English

Mahler Explorations (1)

February 15th 2022
video release Studio 17 productions / Gustav-Mahler-Vereinigung Germany

Artists

  • Simon Yang (tenor)
  • Burkhard Kehring (piano)
  • Johannes Schmidt (cameras / video mastering)
  • Christian Jahnke (audio mastering)

Composer

  • Gustav Mahler

Poets

  • Li Bai
  • Hans Bethge

Languages

  • German
  • Chinese (in translation)

Gustav Mahler's piano version of "Das Lied von der Erde", based on free translations and re-compositions of ancient Chinese Poems by Hans Bethge, forms the starting point of a new long term project that explores Mahler's relationship with Far-Eastern poetry - and it's possible consequences and perspectives for global art song composition.

The first exploration includes a video-audio-production of the Mahler song originally titeled "Der Pavillon aus Porzellan", that was transformed into the third movement "Von der Jugend" of Mahler's orchestral work later.

Video: Gustav Mahler - Der Pavillon aus Porzellan