Composition
The specialisation composition stands for comprehensive training in the fields of acoustic composition and new music, music theatre and electronic music, audio-visual and hybrid music, which is supplemented by a high proportion of practice-oriented project work.
Training
Broadly Diversified, Practically Oriented, Individually
The focus of the study programme is the development of an artistic personality with all its creative potential, who confidently meets the requirements of the current music business. The basis for this is the comprehensive technical and musical training and promotion of creativity and independence.
![[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Mark Andre im Gespräch mit Studentin/Foto: Ronny Waleska](https://www.hfmdd.de/fileadmin/_processed_/5/5/csm_DMM2015_Andre_im_GEspraech_Waleska_01_9cd3f3d8fc.jpg)
Acoustic Composition
Besides one-to-one lessons with Mark Andre, Manos Tsangaris or Stefan Prins, and workshops with selected artists such as Ensemble Recherche, Lucas Fels, Sarah Maria Sun, Yukiko Sugawara, Bill Forman, Jörg Widmann, and many more, seminars with Mark Andre are part of the theoretical training. The training experiences practical relevance through cooperation with major orchestras such as the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic or the Soundfactory Orchestra Wroclaw and excursions to the INM Darmstadt or the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in Donaueschingen.
![[Translate to Englisch:] Briefmarkenopern/Foto: Marcus Lieder](https://www.hfmdd.de/fileadmin/_processed_/7/8/csm_Briefmarken-2016-1_Lieder_dbd2d908dd.jpg)
Musical Theatre
The focus is on scenic composition and performance. Project-oriented cooperative work with Manos Tsangaris is as much a part of the subject profile as interdisciplinary cooperation with various partners, including the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Festspielhaus Hellerau and regular excursions e.g. to the Munich Biennale or the Gutshof Sauen.
![[Translate to Englisch:] Briefmarkenopern/Foto: Marcus Lieder](https://www.hfmdd.de/fileadmin/_processed_/0/a/csm_Briefmarken-2016_Lieder_5a4fb37da6.jpg)
Hybrid Music Lab
From fixed media to live electronics and audio-visual sound installations, the studies include acoustics, sound and video editing and programming as well as the possibility to develop and perform hybrid electro-acoustic instruments in the „Sound&Fury“ improvisation ensemble. The study is rounded off by a professional production environment in the Hybrid Music Lab and various projects, e.g. as part of the Next Generation festival at the ZKM Karlsruhe, with the Toulouse Conservatory and the Bauhaus University Weimar.
Networking
Projects, Workshops and Guest Lecturers
Since many years we invite 3 or 4 prestigious composers per year, representing a wide variety of stilistic orientation, which get portrayed in projectweeks. Notable invitations from the last years include for example Helmut Lachenmann, Dieter Schnebel, Wolfgang Rihm, Sofia Gubaidulina, Brian Ferneyhough, Enno Poppe, Rebecca Saunders, Isabel Mundry, Aribert Reimann, Jennifer Walshe, Martin Schüttler, Johannes Kreidler and Georg Friedrich Haas.
2020 Nicolaus A. Huber, Sarah Nemtsov, Hanna Eimermacher, Johannes Maria Staud, Helmut Lachenmann, Salvatore Sciarrino



2019 Brian Ferneyhough, Jörg Widmann, Pierluigi Billone



Applicants
Entrance Requirements
Students
Study Curriculum & Documents
Contact
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Prof. Dr. phil. habil.
Studiendekan Komposition
Leitung Institut für Neue Musik
Leitung Klangnetz Dresden
Mitglied des Hochschulrats
Raum P 4.08 (Wettiner Platz 10, 4. OG)
Sprechzeit:
Mittwoch 15:00-16:00
Voranmeldung per E-Mail erbeten!
John Leigh
Prof. Dr.
Stellvertretender Studiendekan Komposition/Musiktheorie
Leiter des Zentrums für Musiktheorie
Sprechzeiten:
Nach vorheriger Anmeldung
Mo: 13:00-14:00
Raum W 4.09
Ute Hanke
Sekretariat Fakultät II
Raum G 2.07
Faculty
Professors and Lecturers
Contacts for all professors, lecturers and staff can be found here
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