Forum Early Music
The intensive engagement with sources, learning about ancient instruments, and historical performance practices can open up a completely new understanding, offering a fresh perspective that presents historical music in a new light and captivates a large concert audience today.
Since 2008, there ist the Forum Early Music (Forum Alte Musik) at our university. It encompasses the entire topic of historical performance practice and organizes concerts, lectures, and courses – all interdisciplinary.
Master's programs in historical instruments
The master's programs in historical instruments, from recorder to harpsichord, are aimed at students who want to further develop or specialize in the field of Early Music, or choose Historical Performance Practice as an additional qualification.
Through the study of historical instruments assigned to specific epochs, participation in projects and the "Ensemble Forum Alte Musik" at the university, intensive engagement with sources, and exploration of performance practice, students acquire playing techniques, stylistic, and music theoretical knowledge. This expands their professional opportunities and significantly improves their chances in the job market, whether for one of the numerous Baroque orchestras, as ensemble musicians, soloists, and ultimately for auditioning as orchestral musicians. Specialists in Early Music are now welcomed at the conductor's stand of many modern orchestras. Consequently, there are very few modern orchestras left which have not engaged with historically informed interpretation approaches and require knowledge in this regard from their orchestra members.
