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 (KMC) 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 2025
Márta Gulyás (Piano) and Are Sandbakken (Viola) taught at KMC 2025 from 25 to 30 March, with the two internationally successful chamber musicians and artistic personalities devoting themselves to piano and string chamber music. The course participants presented 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 KMC ends with two final concerts on 30 March at 5 and 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Music Hall of the MHL.

Registration
Deadline is 31 January 2025. MHL students register with an ensemble biography. External students apply additionally with a recording.
Registration at: kammermusikcampus@remove-this.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 Euro.

Márta Gulyás, born in Budapest in 1953, studied there at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with István Lantos and Erzsebet Tuse. After graduating, she received a scholarship to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Dmitri Bashkirov. Concert tours have taken her to numerous cities and festivals around the world, including with partners such as Gérard Caussé, Gustav Rivinius, Guy Deplus, Michaela Martin, García Asensio, Frans Helmerson and Christoph Henkel. Recordings with Hungaroton (Hungary) and Biblioservice (Netherlands) document her skills. In 1985 she was honoured with the Hungarian Culture Prize and in 1998 with the Liszt Ferenc Prize. Márta Gulyás regularly gives masterclasses in Finland, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany and Hungary. She is currently head of the chamber music department at the Liszt Ferenc Academy in Budapest and teaches piano chamber music at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sophía in Madrid.

Are Sandbakken, born in Oslo in 1967, is a key figure in the Norwegian music scene as a versatile performer and sought-after teacher. He studied violin and viola with Leif Jørgensen in Oslo and Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. He later studied singing with Susanna Eken in Copenhagen and conducting with Jorma Panula in Finland. He was principal viola of the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Mariss Jansons. He was also a member of the Oslo String Quartet for 25 years, with whom he toured throughout Europe. The quartet has made a number of award-winning recordings and received the Spellemann Prize in 2013. At the end of the 1990s, he became a guest professor for the conducting class at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Are Sandbakken has been Professor of Chamber Music at the Norwegian Academy of Music since 2003.

• Kammermusik Campus Lübeck 2025 (available only in german)

Chamber Music Campus Lübeck
Große Petersgrube 21
23552 Lübeck

Head
Prof. Heime Müller

Organisation
Linda Hirsekorn

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