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 2021
Dirk Mommertz and Jonathan Brown will be teaching at KMC 2022. 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 2 April at 5 and 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Music Hall of the MHL.
Registration
Deadline is 31 January 2022 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
Dirk Mommertz (piano) studied in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Paris and Cologne. He is an internationally awarded pianist and a member of the renowned Fauré Quartet, which performs in the world's most important concert halls. Award-winning recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical labels highlight the groundbreaking nature of the ensemble, which is at home in both classical and experimental contemporary repertoire. Dirk Mommertz has performed as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, among others. From 2000 to 2005 he was a piano lecturer at the University of Music Karlsruhe, and after 2005 professor of chamber music at the universities in Essen and Nuremberg. In 2015 he was appointed head of the chamber music department at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, where he has been vice-president since 2019. He gives numerous public master classes around the world. His students are winners of international competitions, including the ARD Competition, the Parkhouse Award London and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
Jonathan Brown (viola) studied with Heidi Castleman, Martha Strongin Katz and Victoria Chiang before completing his Master's degree with Karen Tuttle at the Julliard School. After receiving a Beebe Grant for Musicians scholarship, he continued his studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Thomas Riebl and Veronika Hagen. Master classes with Diemut Poppen, Sylvia Rosenberg and Donald Weilerstein complemented his education. His work with Ferenc Rados and György Kurtag had a lasting influence on him. In 2002 Jonathan Brown became a member of the Cuarteto Casals, with whom he performs worldwide. He has also worked with various ensembles, including the Tokyo, Miro and Zemlinsky Quartets and the Kandinsky Trio. He founded Ensemble Funktion and recorded works by Feldman and Berio as a soloist with the group BCN216. Jonathan Brown teaches viola and chamber music at ESMUC in Barcelona. He is an assistant in the viola class at the Escuela Superior de Música in Madrid and is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe and America.
