Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler

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name = Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler


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affiliations = Berliner Philharmoniker
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website = http://www.hfmberlin.de/
address = Charlottenstraße 55, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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The Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" (College or Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler") is one of the leading music conservatories in Germany. It was established in East Berlin in 1950 as the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik (German College of Music) because the older Hochschule für Musik Berlin (now the Berlin University of the Arts) was in West Berlin. After the death of one of its first professors, composer Hanns Eisler, the school was renamed in his honor in 1964. Located in Berlin's famed Gendarmenmarkt, the college has an international faculty and programs in performance, composition, voice, conducting, jazz and popular music, arts management, musical theater, stage direction and music theory. Also notable are its institutes for new music and musicians' health.

The Hochschule

Courses

People

ome notable former students

* Thomas Blumenthal
* Claudio Bohorquez
* Dagmar Frederic
* Klaus Feldmann
* Tatjana Gürbaca
* Jenny Erpenbeck
* Ronald Hänsch
* Martin Helmchen
* Danjulo Ishizaka
* Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
* Sarah Kaiser
* Marek Kalbus
* Georg Katzer
* Christiane Klonz
* Peter Konwitschny
* Jochen Kowalski
* Monika Leskovar
* Siegfried Matthus
* Johannes Moser
* Vera Nemirova
* Michael Sanderling
* Barbara Senator
* Sung Shi-yeon (conductor)
* Barbara Thalheim
* Roman Trekel
* Christian Weidner
* Jörg-Peter Weigle
* Sebastian Weigle
* Nils Wülker
* You Ji-yeoun
* Feng Yu
* Guy Tuneh

ome notable present and former staff

* Wolf-Dieter Batzdorf (violin)
* Thomas Quasthoff (voice)
* Sir Simon Rattle (honorary senator)
* Rainer Seegers (visiting professor of percussion)
* Wolfgang Rihm (honorary senator)
* Tabea Zimmermann (viola)

Many members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and other orchestras in Berlin also teach at the Hochschule.

References

External links

* [http://www.hfm-berlin.de/en/Homepage.html Official Website]
* [http://www.hanns-eisler.com/English.htm International Hanns Eisler Society]
* [http://eislermusic.com EislerMusic.com]
* [http://aec.cramgo.nl/ Effects of the Bologna Declaration on Professional Music Training in Europe]
* [http://www.aecinfo.org/ European Association of Conservatoires (AEC)]