LET'S GO FEMININE!

"I think it is worth considering whether the human skin is not just an accidental shell for the human soul, but rather embodies it. In my opinion, the skin, as one of the most active materials, not only plays a role in defining our socio-cultural location, but also leaves traces and thus creates our stories."

Kris Kuldkepp draws us into the spell of her research topic in a playful, exploratory, cautious and joyful way and with humorous seriousness. Using copper, skin, loudspeakers, touch, video, wires and matter, we join the performer for around 25 minutes as individual audience members in a two-way, interactive experience.

"The guests really don't need to be afraid," says Kris Kuldkepp. "I try to create a situation in which active participation is possible and desired, but not necessary. The guests can be as active or passive as they want in this situation and, in the best case, there is an opportunity to experience something special with a complete stranger."

One Woman / One Skin runs from April 10-14

Josephina Lucke, Margalith Charlotte Eugster, Linda Wesche and Antonia Brinkers are the four festival creators of the Feminale and give us an insight into how it came about: "We have noticed that many female musicians lack female role models. We firmly believe that the perception of musicians changes when female composers become a matter of course early on in their musical careers. That's why we came up with the idea of integrating female composers into education and thus into the music scene in the final stage of our training."

No sooner said than done... A festival was founded and the team - unexpectedly confronted with issues of planning, programming, organization and advertising - was able to demonstrate its cultural management skills along the way.
Meanwhile, the anticipation is huge: "for the music, for the concerts, for the visitors, for the conversations, feedback, impressions. To finally see how our ideas and visions turn into reality. That so many great pieces can be heard and have a stage. Seeing the names and images of many women who have had a significant impact on music history and hearing their works. That in ten years' time, female composers will be the norm in everyday university life."

Feminale from April 27 to 29

Macht Mach Macht - behind this title lies the research field of Elise Schobeß, who deals with de-hierarchization strategies in music theater:
"I am interested in questioning the background and meaning of power structures on various levels, both in theater and socio-politically. I personally believe that mental agility and flexibility are essential keys to avoiding entrenched power structures and creating responsible cooperation on an equal footing."

Elise has compiled the results of numerous companions into an interactive exhibition in a market of (im)possibilities. She feels that networking with one another is important: "I definitely see a trend towards increasing criticism of cemented power structures - even in music theater, where this development is slower due to the more complex structures. And it is precisely against the backdrop of these advances that I see connecting with each other as so important: the more people from very different sides scratching at the same walls, the greater the chance of actually tearing them down."

The evening itself has an experimental character. The offer is as extensive and diverse as the approach to the topic itself. Everyone decides for themselves which stations they want to look at or try out. "And if you want to spend the whole evening at the bar, that's also possible."

Macht Macht Macht on April 29 on the Barmbek campus

The versatile jazz singer CLEO is a familiar anchor point of our jazz department and has already impressed in many roles and constellations. For the JazzHeros series, she was able to invite a guest of her choice to Hamburg and without hesitation chose the French guitarist Michaël Valeanu, whose "uniquely subtle and musical playing" she has long admired.
"it only takes two to tango" with CLEO and Michaël Valeanu on April 14, in the JazzHall

Even though she has long held a great position as the main church musician at St. Peter's Cathedral in Schleswig, Mahela T. Reichstatt is still connected to the HfMT with one last small corner of her studies. For her concert exam, she will be able to make the organs of the main church St. Michaelis resound. Under the title "Concert for, by and about women in organ music", we will hear works by female composers and Magnificat arrangements.
Organ concert in the main church of St. Michaelis on April 20

It is particularly enriching when our professors present themselves as soloists in our concerts. After all, the students identify strongly with them and we are very proud of them. As an internationally sought-after soloist and chamber musician, violin professor Tanja Becker-Bender pursues a busy concert schedule alongside her teaching commitments. In April, she will share her masterful skills with us in Busoni's violin concerto.
Symphony concert with Tanja Becker-Bender on April 26

She was presented to us as the "rock star" of music therapy research. We describe her somewhat more moderately in the event text as "the grand dame of research in artistic therapies, especially in qualitative research in music therapy". In any case, it is clear that with B. Wheeler we were able to win an outstanding research personality for a lecture, which we are also making available to an interested public as an online offer.
First-Person Research - Lecture in Music Therapy on April 27th