BEGINNING

In keeping with the new beginning at the HfMT, this time our journalists have dedicated their writing to the topic of beginnings. In the latest issue of the university newspaper zwoelf, the detailed double interview with the outgoing and incoming presidents is joined by a student reportage in which we take a look at the life plans of two young people who are just starting out and report on their inspiration. In contrast, Benjamin Sprick reflects on "the philosophical risk of conjuring up becoming" in his editorial. We also take a look at the central importance of the beginnings of works: the significance of the first words of a piece as well as the relevance of preparing for the first note.

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César Franck is one of the most impressive musical personalities of the 19th century. To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, we are presenting a broad spectrum of his compositional output over 10 festive days. On October 5, the D minor Symphony will be performed as part of the symphony concert in the Forum. In further concerts, we will highlight his extensive chamber music repertoire as well as his outstanding oeuvre for organ.

Wolfgang Zerer - organ professor at the HfMT and initiator of the festival - comments on the significance of this oeuvre for organists: "Franck marks the beginning of the so-called French organ symphony. His saying "mon orgue, c'est mon orchestre!" is famous. (my organ, that's my orchestra!). Influenced by the sound world of the ingenious organ builder Aristide Cavaillè-Coll, his musical language is very expressive, a perfect balance of beautiful melodies, rich harmonies and warmth of sound.

Zerer is particularly looking forward to the concert with Michel Bouvard (prof. emer. from Paris and Toulouse) on October 16 in the St. Johanniskirche Altona, where the three chorales for organ are on the program, which were composed shortly before Franck's death and can be regarded as his main work for organ.

In our calendar of events, simply follow the creamy-sweet organ pipe cake to discover all 10 festive events.

In our symphonic year, we unite a large group of highly talented young musicians from all artistic disciplines for a series of thrilling highlights full of intensity, passion and the joy of discovery.

On October 5, the university's symphony orchestra will perform Mozart, Beethoven and Franck in the opening concert. On October 13, you will hear the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the conducting class and with concert exam student Ziling Guo as the soloist in Arnold Mendelssohn's violin concerto. The program also includes a Haydn symphony.

We have a special offer for both concerts: with the code "Verfuehrung2022" you can book up to two tickets at half price. The promotion is listed on eventim.de as "Promotion HfMT". It only applies to the normal price and is available until the day before each concert.
Symphony concerts on 5.10. and on 13.10.

As last year, October is proving to be our theater month.

First of all, in cooperation with the Junges SchauspielHaus, we are presenting Generation One, an interactive theater game for young people aged 10 and over. Over the course of four hours and through various rooms, the audience can playfully create a new society. Variety, movement and a meal are provided for the audience.
Performances are between October 1 and 7

Before we release our final-year drama students into the big, wide world, they can "roar" on our stages one last time. They present themselves with an entertaining best-off show at the director's audition.
To be seen on October 13 and 14 on the Barmbek campus

In keeping with tradition, we are taking the directing students to the Kiez. This year it's Sophie Glaser, Maciek Martos, Fabian Thon and Yida Guo who, as Kiezstürmer:innen, are putting their ideas into practice and bringing them to the stage of the St. Pauli Theater under professional conditions.
The Kiezstürmer 2022 will take place on 16 and 17 October

Our DRAMA! work is particularly valuable to us, with which we are now in our third year of providing future theater makers with a space for reflection over two semesters in which they can train in collective, responsible and specialized theater work. The students compile the results of their discussions in scenic installations.
As the icing on the cake of the DRAMA festival, we welcome the young essayist and playwright Enis Maci, who will be performing in Hamburg for the first time with her lecture.
DRAMA! festival from 20-23 October on the Barmbek campus

Our JazzHall coordinators never get tired anyway, there's always something going on in the JazzHall, even during the semester break. They just keep going. And now it continues...
It is not without pride that we present the concerts that our jazz department has been putting on for a good year now and which are additionally enriched by a wonderful, colorful and dazzling international variety of guest musicians. We are simply happy that the JazzHall has been able to establish itself as Hamburg's "fine place for jazz".

For October, for example, we recommend the Bandnight on October 19 with the Pouya Abdi Quartet. In their search for colorful textures, they are sometimes powerful and exciting, sometimes melancholic and dreamy. Guitarist Pouya Abdi is particularly interested in odd time signatures and unusual rhythms, always with the aim of making the music sound natural.

10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - lift-off!!!

To what extent is it possible for us to imagine something that we do not know? In exploring the unknown, are we trapped in our anthropocentric perspective? How can we encounter the unknown, the alien, freely?
The universe has always served mankind as a cultural projection surface.

At the interface between music and astrophysics, our researchers embark on a search for answers. They arrive at a kind of answer in eight short pieces that they have woven into a multimedia music theater.
Space journey on October 21 and 22 in the Forum of the HfMT

We entice you into the Spiegelsaal of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg with baroque sounds, where Domen Marincic presents himself as a not-so-freshly baked new colleague with an inaugural concert. He joined the Early Music Department in April and conducts the HfMT Baroque Orchestra.

The students have long since taken him into their musical midst and taken him to their hearts: "a fascinating personality, always stimulating!", enthuses recorder professor Peter Holtslag, who will be joining Menno van Delft and Carsten Lohff as chamber music partners in the concert on 27.10. with works by Telemann, Schiavetto, Blow, Handel, Graun and others, featuring arrangements, reconstructions and rarities.