LAST BUT NOT LEAST

The JazzHall SummerFestival has kicked off and will be in full swing through Saturday, July 4. In the afternoons, free open-air concerts draw crowds to the festival grounds, and in the evenings, the festivities continue indoors. A few remaining tickets are still available here and there—for example, for the closing concert featuring trumpeter Milena Casado.
JazzHall SummerFestival from June 28 to July 4

Shortly thereafter, the HfMT Big Band will open ELBJAZZ 2026 on stage in the Schiffsbauhalle together with singer China Moses. Our student bands will perform in three additional concerts on the Hamburg Stage at the Blohm & Voss site.
HfMT@ELBJAZZ 2026 on July 10 and 11

The University Orchestra is gearing up for its final symphony concert, collaborating with the vocal classes at the Lübeck University of Music for a concert performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera *The Turn of the Screw *.
Symphony concerts on July 5, 6, and 7

The concert series in the Audimax continues, offering an interesting program centered on vocal chamber music featuring Mariana Popova’s class. This time, the program even includes a world premiere by student Armand Brunet, who studies harp in Prof. Xavier de Maistre’s class and will also be performing in the concert.
AudimaxVocal on July 8 in the Audimax at the University of Hamburg

The dynamic chamber choir is venturing into new territory and collaborating for the first time with the Music Theater Directing class on a staged evening centered on the theme of the Olympics, featuring works by Boulanger, Brahms, Schütz, and Wood.
Citius, Altius, Fortius… Chorius on July 10

For our summer discussion, we welcome Prof. Dr. Michael Göring, an accomplished, enthusiastic, and witty foundation professional who has played a key role in shaping the German foundation landscape. From 1997 to 2021, he served as a board member and chairman of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, and has been a professor at the KMM Institute since 2000. Together with him, we’ll take a look into the future: What role can foundations play in times of change—and how can responsibility be structured so that initiatives endure beyond individual people?

Summer Discussion with Michael Göring on July 9

de:colonial monuments lab: How will we remember in the future?

This inter-university teaching project addresses these questions; during the summer semester, it brings together students from the Institute for Culture and Media Management (HfMT), HCU Hamburg, and HAW Hamburg. Taking the historic site of Baakenhafen in Hamburg’s HafenCity as their starting point, the participants are developing artistic, performative, and discursive approaches to the culture of remembrance, decolonization, and public space.

The projects will be presented at the Klimaströme Festival as part of a performative walk aboard the MS Stubnitz and throughout the Baakenhafen. We look forward to spending an afternoon together featuring student contributions, encounters, and discussions about the past, present, and future of urban memory culture.

de:colonial monuments lab on July 25

At the end of their fourth semester, students in the theater education program are developing a staged presentation based on their research questions: “What is a bad child?” and “How great is your anger?” To this end, they create a setting that allows them to collectively explore emotional impositions and disruptive figures.
b0rN tHiS rAg€! on July 4

With the German premiere of the opera *Cabildo* by American composer Amy Beach, Elisabeth Wild takes the audience to the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg, which she transforms into the setting for the story, thereby offering a new perspective on maritime history.
*Cabildo* on July 18 and 19

In October 2025, the HfMT took on a partnership with four schools in Hamburg. As part of a grant from the Culture and School Project Fund, students and schoolchildren come together in workshops, rehearsal visits, and joint artistic projects. We’ll be bringing two of these projects to the stage at the end of this semester:

In the “Next Stage” seminar led by Daniel Bucurescu, students developed creative concert formats for the HfMT’s partner schools and are implementing them on-site. The focus was not only on making music, but also on finding new ways to present classical music and making it accessible to a diverse audience. The students are now presenting the results of this research in their own “Black Box” at the HfMT.“
” Black Box on July 15

And this is what friendship sounds like: In the seminar on choir and ensemble direction in elementary schools, the students, under the guidance of Luiz de Godoy, focused on “transcultural choir work” and tested the approaches they developed at the Edwin-Scharff-Ring and Westerschule Finkenwerder elementary schools. For weeks, they sang and made music together. Now they’re taking the stage together for a friendship concert featuring the Hamburg Boys’ Choir, a guest choir from Belgium, the Brecht School, and the Hamburg Music Kindergarten.
The “Friendship Sounds” choir concert takes place on July 3 at St. Bonifacius

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