Timpani/Percussion Instruments
The training of the timpani/percussion classes ranges between the traditional and the modern, Dresden’s top orchestras and soloistic aspiration. Musicians from the Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden or the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra instruct alongside international soloists and renowned pedagogues.
Training broad, practical, individual
Focus Areas
In addition to regular core subject lessons, the focus of the course includes work in the Hochschulsinfonieorchester as well as chamber music and new music. This guarantees a broad and individual training.
Gain Concert Experience
Ensemble projects with other musicians at the university, work in the Hochschulsinfonieorchester or close collaboration with other instrumental classes provide important practical experience. The associated stage practice guarantees regular panel concerts and performance opportunities.
Flexible Training
Depending on your personal goals, you can choose between artistic and instrumental pedagogical training. In addition, additional course offerings such as drum set, jazz vibraphone and percussion guarantee a wide range of profiling opportunities.
Faculty Professors & Lecturers
Alexej Bröse
Orchesterschlagzeug
Manuel Westermann
Orchesterpauke
Sergey Mikhaylenko
Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik
Klassisches Schlagzeug
Nachwuchsförderung
Contacts for all professors, lecturers and staff can be found here
News from our Department
Staš Planinšek, Schlagzeug
Klassen Alexej Bröse, Sergey Mikhaylenko, Manuel Westermann)
Felix Brinkmann, Schlagzeug
Klassen Alexej Bröse, Sergey Mikhaylenko, Manuel Westermann
Masterclasses Workshops & Projects
Regular master classes with well-known percussionist of different stylistic orientations round off the training program. Most recent guests include, among others, Jan Schlichte (Berlin Philharmonic), Holger Brust (Bamberg Symphony), Henrik Schmidt (German Symphony Orchestra), Benjamin Forster (Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich), Franz Schindlbeck (Berlin Philharmonic), Benjamin Schmidinger (Vienna Philharmonic).
Application Entrance Requirements
Kurt Masur AkademieOrchestra Academy of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
The Kurt Masur Academy offers particularly talented musicians the opportunity to prepare themselves within the Dresden Philharmonic for their future profession and to get to know the special playing culture and the sound ideal of the traditional top orchestra. At the same time, they are studying in the four-semester Master's programme "Music with a focus on orchestral practice" at the College of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
New MusicMaster's Degree in New Music Bern-Dresden-Salzburg
It is also possible to study contemporary music at the Dresden University of Music. The Master's program in New Music is offered in cooperation with the Bern University of the Arts and the Mozarteum Salzburg, with the option of spending one year of study in each of these cities. For more detailed information, please visit the website of the international master's program in New Music Bern-Dresden-Salzburg
Studies Curriculum & Course Schedule
Contact Get in Touch
Jan Donner
Prof.
Posaune/Bassposaune
Stellvertretender Studiendekan Bläser/Schlagwerk
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