Hochschule für Musik Freiburg


The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music.

History

The Hochschule was initially founded as a municipal institution in 1946 under the direction of Gustav Scheck, but two years later became an institution of the State of Baden. The original facilities were two intact townhouses in Freiburg's largely destroyed city center. Many of the early students went on to become renowned musicians, including the tenor Fritz Wunderlich. Numerous outstanding instrumental soloists and teachers have taught at the Hochschule, including Harald Genzmer, Aurèle Nicolet, Ulrich Koch, Wolfgang Marschner, Ludwig Doerr, Carl Seemann, Erich and Elma Doflein, Edith Picht-Axenfeld and James Avery.
In 1954 Wolfgang Fortner founded the pioneering Institut für Neue Musik at the Hochschule and later began a cooperation with the experimental electronic studio of the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation at the Freiburg branch of the Südwestfunks.
Following many years of being housed in numerous buildings throughout the city, the Hochschule erected a new state-of-the-art facility in 1983.
Since the fall of 2005, the Hochschule has collaborated with the Universitätsklinikum Freiburg through the newly founded "Freiburger Institut für Musikermedizin" in order to research, teach, and promote specialized patient care based on the often overlooked connection between music making and health.
The Hochschule maintains international partnerships with the music conservatories in Odesa, Rochester, Warsaw, Sydney and Kyoto.

Notable teachers and students

Since the beginning of the 2006/07 winter semester, the Hochschule was one of the first German music conservatories to provide most of its courses in line with the proposed European Bachelor/Master system.
  • Bachelor/Master's degree
  • Diplom/Künstlerische Ausbildung
  • Diplom/Musiklehrer
  • Music Education
  • Master of Music
  • Master of Performance
  • Master of Contemporary Music Performance
  • Advanced Studies Diploma
  • Soloist Diploma
  • Aufbaustudium Kirchenmusik A
  • Doctoral Studies
The Hochschule is divided organizationally into five institutes: new music, musical theater, historical performance practice, the Freiburg Institute for Performing Arts Medicine, and the Freiburg School for the Gifted.