A theological-liturgical-church-musical future workshop
A lot has to happen. Very soon. Our churches: they are valued as houses of culture, as monuments with tourist appeal, as "other places" in the middle of our cities. In some places, church services are still well attended. How much longer? The institutions are crumbling, credibility is waning, and the loss of tradition can hardly be stopped. They still flock to the Christmas Oratorio and the St. Matthew Passion. How much longer? Listening habits have changed, the entire musical culture is in a constant state of flux, and for many the great works are at best only a memory. What sounds are needed today, what narratives, what staging, to bring new magic to the spaces, their atmosphere and their meanings? Is pop music the solution, or is it new experimental works? Do we just need better sermons, or do we need to tell completely different stories? Do we just need to adapt our liturgies or completely reinvent them? The University of Music Lübeck and the Kultur- und Universitätskirche St. Petri zu Lübeck - the "Church at the Zero Point of Religion" - invite you to experience and explore the never thought of, the hardly ever said and the unheard of.

• THU - SUN / 05 - 08 / OCT / 23
  Symposium
  on new directions and innovative concepts with best practice examples from speakers from church music, theology and conservatory.

For church musicians, theologians, as well as for lecturers, students and those interested in studying.

A cooperation between the Kultur- und Universitätskirche St. Petri zu Lübeck and the MHL in collaboration with the Kirchenmusikhochschule Regensburg and the Musikhochschule Weimar.

DO / 05 / OKT / 23
19 – 21 Uhr / St. Petri
Eröffnung

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Erne: "Daseinsweitung - Wozu wir heute Kirchen brauchen" (Eröffnungsvortrag)
• Musik, gespielt von Studierenden der MHL, u.a. "Realitätswelten" von Sarah Proske

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FR / 06 / OKT / 23
09 – 13 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
Vorträge I

• Prof. Arvid Gast: "Prolog: Kantorenpraxis zur Zeit des 'Aufbruchs der Klänge'"
• Prof. Dr. Friedhelm W. Mennekes S.J.: "Die Orgeln für neue Musik – im stetigen Wandel"
• Dominik Susteck: "Musik als offene Frage –Zur Konzeption zeitgenössischer Musik im Kirchenraum"
  Pause
• Ilka Sobottke: "Pirat:innen und Sekundenkleber. Neue Codes und Poesie zwischen Insta, gender und fromm"
• Monsignore Dr. Werner Schrüfer Künstlerseelsorger: "Seelsorge und Kultur – Eine Win-Win-Situation"
• Prof. Christian Höppner: "Kirchenmusik als Chance für Gesellschaft, Kultur und Kirche"

14.30 – 18.30 Uhr / St. Jakobi
Workshops I

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SA / 07 / OKT / 23
09 – 13 Uhr / MHL /  Kammermusiksaal
Vorträge II

• Prof. Dr. Bernd Beuscher: "Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll – Ein systematisch-theologisches Orgelkonzert im transmoralischen Register"
• Dr. Uwe Steinmetz: "Das Ritual im Jazz und der Jazz im Ritual"
• KMD Eckhard Manz: "Liturgische Räume als Klangräume für Gegenwärtiges"
• LKMD Hans-Jürgen Wulff: "Gemeinsam den Wandel gestalten – Kirchenmusik als Chance und Perspektive für Gemeinden"
  Pause
• Prof. Stefan Baier: "Neue Geistliche Musik – Der neue Master 'Neue Geistliche Musik' an der Kirchenmusikhochschule Regensburg"
• Prof. Martin Sturm: "Die Orgel inmitten der Gesellschaft – Perspektiven zu einer zukunftsfähigen Orgelästhetik und -ausbildung"
• Prof. Franz Danksagmüller: "Zurück zur Praxis unserer Vorbilder: Modell MHL, aktuelle Musik, Schwerpunkt 'IKN - Improvisation, Komposition, neue Medien'"

14.30 – 15.45 Uhr / St. Petri
Einblicke

• Dr. Bernd Schwarze und Team: "Präsentation PetriVisionen - Einblicke, Entwicklungen"

16 – 18 Uhr / MHL
Workshops II

• Pamela Hulme: "Live Looping"
• Prof. Franz Danksagmüller: "Improvisation mit Instrumenten und Live-Elektronik"

20 Uhr / St. Jakobi
Offenes Improvisieren
u.a. mit Carlo Maria Barille, Franz Danksagmüller, Arvid Gast, Christoph Hönerlage, Bernd Ruf, Uwe Steinmetz, Martin Sturm u.a.

23 Uhr / St. Petri
Petrivision

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SO / 08 / OKT / 23
10 – 12 Uhr / St. Jakobi
Best Practice
Beispiele aus der Praxis und Abschlussdiskussion

The MHL started early to break new ground in church music education with the profile »Improvisation, Composition, New Media« (IKN). The training provides students with tools that enable them to become creatively active themselves. The profile enables the design and organization of interdisciplinary projects with a final public performance on a socially relevant topic or for liturgical use. Project-based subject choices are also designed to prepare students for the stylistically diverse challenges of professional reality.

Since the winter semester of 2022/23, the newly designed Master's program has been in effect with a focus on modularity, stylistic flexibility, and on creative and interdisciplinary work. (see at this link)

But other music academies, institutions and artists are also exploring new directions in education and practice. The symposium is intended to provide an opportunity for an intensive exchange.

During the symposium, new paths and formats will be presented and explored, discussions will be stimulated, impulses will be set, and making and conceiving music together will be encouraged.

Above all, the gap between pop church music and classical church music education is to be bridged and the focus is to be directed towards the content. Based on the models of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the church musician should once again be creatively active, and the churches should once again become places of high-quality, original art and relevant statements.

More information will follow soon.

An initiative of the University of Music Lübeck and St. Petri zu Lübeck

Churches – Cult – Sounds
Große Petergrube 21
23552 Lübeck

Prof. Franz Danksagmüller (MHL)
Mail to Prof. Danksagmüller

Dr. Bernd Schwarze (St. Petri, MHL)
Mail to Dr. Schwarze