Lübeck Chamber Music Campus

March 30th to April 4th 

Jonathan Aner (piano) and Tim Frederiksen (violin, viola) teach at the KMC in Spring 2026. The two internationally acclaimed and successful chamber musicians and artists are committed to piano and string chamber music. The results of the collaboration are presented by course attendants in two final concerts.

Lessons

At the KMC, every ensemble receives four lessons open to the public. Time slots are assigned in person.

Concert

The KMC ends with two final concerts (April 4th at 17 and 19:30 o'clock) at the MHL Kammermusiksaal.

Application

Deadline for application is January 31st 2026. Students of the MHL apply with their ensemble biographies. External students must apply with an additional recording. To validate the application, every ensemble must pay a fee of 40 Euros to

• Payee: Finanzministerium Schleswig-Holstein / Landeskasse 
  IBAN: DE82 2000 0000 0020 2015 77
  BIC: MARKDEF1200 
  Memo: 8725-KCL25 (add the name of the ensemble)

Applications must be sent to: kammermusikcampus@mh-luebeck.de

Admission

No more than twelve ensembles will be admitted. A confirmation of participation slip will be sent by February 10th.

Fees

The lessons for ensembles of the MHL are free. Guest ensembles pay a course fee of 400 Euros.

Jonathan Aner (piano) 

has performed with leading orchestras of Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta. He has received awards for countless international piano and chamber music competitions in cities including Melbourne, Florence, Dortmund, Berlin, Weimar and the European Chamber Music Competition in France. The »Chamber Musician par excellence« (Frankfurter Rundschau) and Opus Klassik Awardee 2024 is a member of the Oberon Trio and performs regularly with clarinettist Shirley Brill. With tenors Ian Bostridge and Christoph Prégardien, violinists Guy Braunstein and Daishin Kashimoto, violist Tabea Zimmermann, cellist Jakob Spahn, the Ariel Quartet and the Vogler Quartet, he has played in the Berlin Philarmony and the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Oriental Arts Center Shanghai, the Tonhalle Zuerich, the Auditorium du Louvre Paric, the Bergen International Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Radio France, the Rheingau Musikfestival, the Bach Festival Leipzig and the festival production Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Jonathan Aner received his musical education under Prof. Arie Vardi at the Music Academy Hannover and Prof. Konrad Elser at the MHL as well as the New England Conservatory Boston. Jonathan Aner is professor for piano chamber music and head of the centre for chamber music at the Music Academy »Hanns Eisler« Berlin. 

Tim Frederiksen (violin, viola) 

studied under Gunnar Frederiksen and Erling Bloch in Kopenhagen as well as Prof. Max Rostal at the Music Conservatory in Switzerland. In 1980, he took the position of solo violist at the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. He was head of the same orchestra from 1983 to 1996. As a soloist he performed with many renowned Danish orchestras. Frederiksen is a sought-after chamber musician. As senior consultant of the Danish string quartet, he has performed many concerts in all of Europe and recorded the entirety of string quartets by Brahms, Nørholm, Nielsen and Hindemith. For his latest recording he was awarded the Deutschen Schallplatten Preis 1997. With Elisabeth Westenholz (piano) and Niels Thomsen (clarinett), he founded the Trio Soleil which has published a cd of works by Mozart, Schumann and Bruch. In 1995, Tim Frederiksen received a professorship for viola and chamber music at the Royal Danish Music Academy Copenhagen. In his 28 years of teaching, Tim Frederiksen has taught the leading violists of Denmark. In his function as head of the chamber music department he has mentored many award-winning ensembles like the Trio Ondine, the Paizo Quartet, the Jalina piano trio, the Danish String Quartet, the Ismena Piano Trio, the Nightingale String Quartet, the Trio Vitruvi, the Nordic String Quartet, the Erlendis Guitar Quartet, the Novo Quartet as well as the Absalon String Quartet. Tim Frederiksen is a sought-after teacher at international and national masterclasses and is a member of the juries of multiple international music competitions such as the Max-Rostal-Competition Berlin, the International Chamber Music Competition Trondheim and the Oscar Nedbal Viola Competition Prague. For the latter, he has been serving as chief juror for many years.