From September 22 to 28, 2025, the HfMT will be dedicated to contemporary music: Hamburg Contemporary presents three outstanding concerts that open up new sound spaces. The focus will be on the collaboration with the members of the renowned Ensemble LUX:NM, an ensemble in residence that works intensively on new works with young musicians, and the Ensemble RADAR Quartet. A special focus of the Akademie Kontemporär is the collaboration with visiting composer Philipp Mainz, who will hold a master class with the academy's scholarship holders.
This year's thematic bracket "MONEY DOUGH" takes up an explosive topic: In the face of increasing cuts in cultural funding, Hamburg Contemporary wants to make a musical statement - loud, alert and unmistakable. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity. Let's make music as if it were the last concert - so that many more can follow.
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Program World premieres and works by students of the composition classes of the HfMT Hamburg: Eunhye Joo Nina Deuse Felix Tetz Andrea Scalmana Xiaohan Xue Marta K. Kowalczuk Igor Andric Kyungjin Lim Minji Seo Shuang Wu
PerformersRADARQuartet Flavio Virzi | guitar Arian Robinson Abdollahi | drums Ninon Gloger | piano John Eckhardt | double bass
The concert is presented in the frame of Hamburg Contemporary, a part of the Ulysses Platform, co-funded by the European Union and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and the Gerhard Trede Stiftung.
