FROM DOOR TO DOOR

There's a little travel adventure, for example:

After exploring space in an artistic-mystical-mental-fantastic and diverse way with Space Journey in November, we are now going to places that don't actually exist or dealing with the phenomenon of a place that - between reality and representation - is basically the projection of its own absence.
Everything clear so far? To be explored in greater depth in the audiovisual sound installation Sandy Islandwhich can be experienced all day at the Forum from December 1-3 and allows you as a visitor to become the protagonist of this production. more

And then there is the treasure hunt with Prof. Christoph Schickedanz, who, together with his violin class, will rummage for rarely heard violin concertos and present them in a studio concert. To kick off this newly created series, there will be something unheard of from Sweden by composers such as Joseph Martin Kraus, Franz Bärwald and Tor Aulin.
The unknown violin concerto can be discovered on 16.12.
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We are showing two theater productions for young audiences in the run-up to Christmas: The Schauspielhaus attracts children aged 9 and over with the wonderful family play Lord of the Thieves based on the novel by the great children's and young adult author Cornelia Funke. Our second-year drama students will be performing alongside the SchauspielHaus ensemble and are already looking forward to the premiere on December 11th

No longer new and yet always different Generation One - a theater game for young people aged 10 and upin which the audience and performers design new ways of living and acting together on a fictional planet. The energetic play has been running since October. The next performance is on 6.12.

Next year, the music world will be celebrating the Ligeti Year with numerous events in honor of the Austro-Hungarian composer György Ligeti, who would have turned one hundred years old in 2023.
A little ahead of time, we are ringing in the celebrations with a first birthday serenade. "Rightly so!" we think. Because we have a special connection to this outstanding and pioneering composer, who held a professorship at the HfMT from 1973 to 1988.

The Ensemble 13/14 invites Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender and Prof. Szabolcs Zempleni as soloists on stage and presents the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, the Hamburg Concerto for Horn and Orchestra as well as a chamber concerto for 13 instrumentalists. The pre-celebration will take place on December 17 and 18. Further tributes will follow.

Singing is a must...

The Opera Gala on 9 December will be festive by every trick in the book when the young singers of the opera class dedicate themselves to a program on the theme of "longing" in romantic literature. more

And Prof. Geert Smits' singing class is kind enough to put on a Christmas studio concert. With chorales and works by Schütz, Bach, Saint-Saens as well as Wolf and Cornelius, only works that are intended for Christmas or suitable for Christmas will be sung. to the event

For example, the 4-day SPIIC special event for friends of the joint trans-disciplinary search for traces on the terrain between improvisation and composition 6-9.12.

Or a concert with percussion professor Cornelia Monske and guitar professor Olaf Van Gonnisen with the promising title "Homemade" 12.12.

The JazzHall is always worth a visit... Our December recommendation for you would be the VAMH presentation #82 with pianist Magda Mayas, who has developed a series of special playing techniques for the "inside" piano. 6.12.

It's great that after a long break, the series Evolution - piano music on historical grand pianos under the direction of Prof. Hubert Rutkowski in the Collection of Musical Instruments at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. It starts with "Chopin on the Pleyel (1847)". 17.12.

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We wish you a wonderful December and would be delighted if our recommendations have inspired you to pay a visit or two.

Sincerely,
Your HfMT