Chamber Music Campus Lübeck
The chamber music tradition at the MHL
Chamber music as the supreme discipline of making music together is practiced particularly intensively at the University of Music Lübeck (MHL). With its Chamber Music Campus Lübeck, the MHL offers ideal conditions for a concentrated examination of the musical work. Renowned guest lecturers accompany the participating ensembles and promote artistic self-determination.
Chamber Music Campus Lübeck 2023
Angelika Merkle and Oliver Wille will be teaching at KMC 2023 from 27 March to 2 April. The two internationally successful chamber musicians and artistic personalities are dedicated to piano and string chamber music. The course participants will present the results of their collaboration in two final concerts.
Lessons
Each ensemble receives at least four public lessons. Timing will be arranged on site.
Concert
The Chamber Music Campus ends with two final concerts on 1 April at 5 and 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Music Hall of the MHL.
Registration
Deadline is 31 January 2023 MHL students register with an ensemble biography. External students apply additionally with a recording.
Registration at: kammermusikcampus@mh-luebeck.de
Admission
A maximum of twelve ensembles will be admitted. Confirmation of participation will be sent by February 10th.
Costs
Tuition is free of charge for MHL ensembles. Guest ensembles pay a course fee of 400 euros.
Lecturers
Angelika Merkle (piano) studied with Klaus Schilde at the Musikhochschule in Munich and with Leonard Hokanson at Indiana University in Bloomington. She supplemented her studies in Lied composition with Helmut Deutsch and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin. The pianist took part in master classes given by Brigitte Fassbaender and Gyorgy Sebok. She has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including from the "Münchener Konzertgesellschaft" and the "Villa Musica" Foundation. In 1994 she won 1st prize at the International Chamber Music Competition "Carlo Soliva" and 1st prize at the renowned "Vittorio Gui" Competition. This was followed by an international concert career as a chamber musician in Europe, America and Japan. CD recordings, television recordings and radio broadcasts with BR, HR, RAI, Radio Suisse Romande, in Mexico and Chile document her versatile skills. Angelika Merkle was appointed professor of piano chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt/Main in 2003. There she directs the master's degree programme in piano chamber music. Since 2014, she has also been the artistic director of the chamber music series "Festeburgkonzerte".
Oliver Wille (violin) studied at the conservatories in Berlin and Cologne, at Indiana University Bloomington and at the New England Conservatory Boston. His teachers included Eberhard Feltz, Christoph Poppen and Ulf Wallin as well as Walter Levin and members of the Alban Berg and Cleveland Quartets. At the age of 14 he founded the Kuss Quartet, which won the International String Quartet Competition "Premio Borciani" in 2002 and was nominated for the "Rising Stars" programme in 2003. Since then, the ensemble has given guest performances worldwide, including at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall London, the Berlin Philharmonie and at international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival. Oliver Wille regularly gives workshops at the Heidelberger Frühling. He has taught at Indiana University and the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. Together with Walter Levin, he supervised the "Graduate Quartet Program" in Basel. In 2011 he took over the professorship for string chamber music in Hanover, followed in 2014 by the appointment as "International Chair in Chamber Music" at the Birmingham Conservatory in England. Oliver Wille is also the artistic director of the "Sommerliche Musiktage" Hitzacker. Together with Antje Weithaas, he directs the International Violin Competition "Joseph Joachim" in Hanover.
