Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.
It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.
Studies include various music types from church music over Jazz to pop music, composition, conducting, instrumental music as well as voice. The theatre academy offers courses in drama and opera and directing in these fields. A third academy offers scientific and educational degrees of study.
The university is located in the prestigious Budge-Palais in Hamburg Rotherbaum at the Außenalster, close to the city centre.Directors
- Philipp Jarnach
- Wilhelm Maler
- Hajo Hinrichs
- Hermann Rauhe
- Michael von Troschke
- Elmar Lampson
Faculty
- Beatrix Borchard, musicology
- Margot Guilleaume, voice
- György Ligeti, composition
- Henny Wolff, voice
- Heinz Wunderlich, organ
Former students
- Erdoğan Atalay
- Ingrid Bachér
- Lisa Batiashvili
- Hermann Baumann
- Dagmar Berghoff
- Oliver Bendt
- Margit Carstensen
- Unsuk Chin
- Xiaoyong Chen
- Marko Ciciliani
- Angela Denoke
- Justus von Dohnányi
- Christoph Eschenbach
- Justus Frantz
- Evelyn Hamann
- Hannelore Hoger
- Olga Jegunova
- Peter Jordan
- Toshiyuki Kamioka
- Marcus Kretzer
- Susanne Lothar
- Marie-Luise Marjan
- Günther Morbach
- Corinna von Rad
- Ivan Rebroff
- Dorothea Röschmann
- Catherine Rückwardt
- Iris Vermillion
