News and updates from the university
HfMT alumnus becomes concertmaster
Sheng-Fang Chiu, who completed a Bachelor's degree in Tanja Becker-Bender's violin class from 2019 to 2025, has been appointed 1st concertmaster of the…
New paths into music - promoting talent and creating opportunities
The Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) is establishing a center for the promotion of young talent and bundling offers for the early promotion of…
Cultural Leadership: Application phase started
The Cultural Leadership Scholarship Program 2026/27 goes into a second round in Hamburg!
The Cultural Leadership Scholarship Program will go into a second round…
Successful "Calls for Transfer" applications
Two of the 16 approved applications in this year's "Calls for Transfer" funding program were for HfMT projects - out of a total of 119 submissions! The project…
Success for cultural leadership
15 scholarship holders from Hamburg cultural organizations have successfully completed the first Cultural Leadership Scholarship Programme in Hamburg. At the…
Moving Sound Pictures: Project from the ligeti center gets its own exhibition space
From March 28 to May 2, 2026, Grindelallee 129 in Hamburg will become a place for immersive art: Moving Sound Pictures: The VR Pop-Up Gallery, an independent…
Stockhausen for children: Michael's journey
Karlheinz Stockhausen
OPERA STABILE der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, 11:00 Uhr
Days of Bohuslav Martinů
Prologue
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kleiner Saal, 19:30 Uhr
Affirmative sustainability
Politics and aesthetics of renunciation
Große Bühne, 10:00 Uhr
University of Music and Drama
With around 1400 students, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama is one of the largest artistic universities in Germany and offers artistic and academic training in all areas of music and theater.
Under the motto "Artistic excellence in social responsibility", the university is in a permanent process of creative reinvention and courageous further development. It is the aim of the university to critically and productively relate both aspects to each other in all its fields of work. Reflection on artistic processes is an indispensable prerequisite for this reciprocal relationship between art and society, between excellence and responsibility.