Skip to main navihationSkip to main navihationSkip to slide galerieSkip to main content
Cellist Nahaufnahme

Violoncello Bowed Stringed Instruments

With us, you are the focus: Whether you aspire to a career as a soloist, chamber musician, in an orchestra or at a university – our teachers, international star soloists and established orchestral musicians from top orchestras, work hand in hand to support you and your career.


Training broad, practical, individual

Our alumni regularly win major international competitions and positions in renowned orchestras around the world. Why? Because we are there for you and support you on your individual path, exactly as you need it.

Excellence comes only through practice. Solo performance opportunities in our concert hall, support for your chamber music projects, an excellent symphony orchestra, a world-class contemporary music department, regular concerts at the Semperoper or the Philharmonie – this is how you are best prepared for the world's stages.

Experience meets innovation. We are pioneers and role models for other universities worldwide. We are constantly rethinking higher education. Mental coaches before auditions, AI audition simulators, or career coaches from the philharmonic orchestra and other institutions – they all work hand in hand with our renowned professors for your career.


Faculty

Contacts for all professors, lecturers and staff can be found here


Alumnae & Alumni

Simon Deffner
Stellv. Solocellist des WDR Orchesters Köln

Tilmann Trüdinger
Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz

Titus Maak
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Hyoungjoon Jo
Erster Solo-Cellist des Korean Chamber Orchestra Seoul, Cellist des international renommierten Abel Quartett

 

Emmanuel  Graf
1. Solocellist der Bayerischen Staatsoper München

Yooosin Park
International erfolgreiche Solistin und Kammermusikerin, künstlerische Leiterin des Pohang Music Festival, Preisträgerin Brahms Wettbewerb Österreich (2015, 2. Preis), Janacek Wettbewerb Brno (2018, 2. Preis), A. Rubinstein Wettbewerb Düsseldorf (2017, 2. Preis)

Dora Hajkova
Preisträgerin des Janacek Wettbewerbs Brno (2018, 3. Preis) und des Dotzauer Wettbewerbs Dresden (2016)

 

Yejin Kim
Mitglied im Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Berlin

Aneta Šudakova
Mitglied der Tschechischen Philharmonie

Shukai Tang
Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, Dresdner Philharmonie, stellvertretender Solocellist beim Landestheater Lübeck

 

Matej Stepanek
2. Solocellist der Tschechischen Philharmonie, Cellist des renommierten Prague Cello Quartet

Kung-I Tsai
Stellvertretender Solocellist beim Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, China

Heewoo Cho
Akademistin bei der Staatsoper Berlin, 1. Preis beim Internationalen Mozart Wettbewerb Berlin


News from our Department

Masterclasses & Workshops

Bratschistin Nahaufnahme, to the current article
, to the current article

Awards & Graduates

Streicher im Hochschulsinfonieorchester, to the current article
Neasa Ni Bhriain/Foto: privat, to the current article

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 Persons Bowed Stringed Instruments/Harp