JAZZY MARCH

"She just has so much energy and joy in making music", "uses incredibly great and appropriate images and can explain so well how it works with the voice and singing..." (student voices). Since Monday, around 16 singers from the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses have been finding inspiration in a delightful masterclass with the American baroque specialist and coloratura soprano Vivica Genaux.

"When it's not our turn, we listen to each other and that's really valuable because you can learn a lot by listening." The singing students find their time together "incredibly enriching" and are looking forward to the final concert, where they will perform excerpts of their work. Harpsichord, baroque cello and baroque violin will serve as accompaniment.
Tickets are still available for last-minute bookings!

Final concert of the master class with Vivica Genaux on March 1 at the Rudolf Steiner Haus

Word has gotten around that our JazzHall is an exquisite place for jazz. Fine location, good acoustics, relaxed atmosphere...
Over the next few months, we will be stepping up the pace in terms of our program. Thanks to the newly founded JazzHall operating company, we now have greater scope for creativity. Jazz education remains at the heart of the program. In addition, we can now develop special formats and invite renowned national and international artists to perform with us. Together with the cooperation partners from the scene, the JazzHall triad is formed and artistic director Tilman Oberbeck ensures a harmonious composition with his keen sense of quality, style and the hottest bands on the jazz scene.

In March, we will be giving our first family concert, where the Sophia Oster Quartet will provide a Saturday afternoon of fun and depth. Other highlights of the month include the electrifying "The Jakob Manz Project" and the concert by South African drummer, composer, researcher and bandleader Asher Gamedze. The student voices have their say with Roz Mac Donald and Timon Krämer, among others

O Jazzy March...

8.3.: Asher Gamedze Quintet
11.3.: Roz Macdonald
16.3.: Sophia Oster Quartet
24.3.: The Jakob Manz Project
29.3.: Timon Krämer

Several articles in newspapers, radio and television have given us pleasure in recent weeks and give us the feeling that we are not the only ones who are enthusiastic about our students :-)

A very sensitive and successful report in the series Twist - ARTE's cultural program about the profession of conducting has just been broadcast on ARTE and is still available in the media library.
Here, three professional conductors are accompanied in their work. For another perspective, the editors paid a visit to the HfMT to take a closer look at conducting training here. Fittingly, there was also a concert by the university orchestra on the doorstep, which could be captured at the same time.
You can see student Doğa Çetin and conducting professor Ulrich Windfuhr.

Thank you very much for the appreciative visit and the great impressions, which we are very happy about, dear Stefan Mühlenhoff and Katharina Ricard!

Click here for the ARTE report
The part about the HfMT will also be shown again on March 4 from 22.45 in the program NDR Kultur - the Journal will be broadcast.

The next musical theater production is on the horizon: Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. It is based on the eco-feminist crime novel The Song of the Bats by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. It negotiates the boundaries between justice and tradition, reason and madness, autonomy and fate.

The young director Frieda Lange is graduating in "Directing Musical Theater" with this production. She raves about the original: "There was a great aesthetic incentive for us as a team to turn Olga Tokarczuk's book into a piece of music theater: the sensual language, the exciting story, the detailed and original description of nature. Between the covers of the book is a multifaceted world that we wanted to bring to life in a musical and playful way."

The five-person - all-female - directing team led by Frieda Lange has been on the Forum stage since Monday, so final rehearsals have begun. An older woman was chosen as the protagonist of the story. "This is a rarity and was very important to us as a directing team," reveals dramaturge Constanze Negwer. "The perspective of older women is very often overlooked." The music is written and recorded by Rosa Anschütz especially for the play in parallel with the rehearsals and ultimately played as a soundtrack during the performance.
The stage set comes to life during the course of the play and stands out due to its contrasting sizes: the huge mountain landscape contains small elements that can be discovered.

Premiere of Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead on March 14 at the Forum

With "Speak up and shine" we are celebrating International Women's Day on March 8. Dr. Monika Hein will be our guest with an interactive reading and the presentation of her new book.

We explore a new venue in the Goßlerhaus in Blankenese. To kick off the new series, the Nilius Pfunda Kollektiv will create an homage to the everyday life of traveling minstrels.

As always, it's also worth browsing the calendar of events

We wish everyone who needs a little break a happy vacation!
See you soon, your HfMT