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Robin Paillet und Sandro Hirsch ARD Wettbewerb

At the ARD International Music Competition in the trumpet category, Prof. Reinhold Friedrich's class at the Karlsruhe University of Music can celebrate winning the top two prizes. Read more ... ...

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Veranstaltungskalender WS 2025-2026

We eagerly await the start of the 2025-2026 winter semester! You can now get an overview of our concerts, opera performances, discussion formats, masterclasses and much more. Read more...

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RIWA 2026_Wochenende 7. - 9. Nov. 25

as part of RIWA 26

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Schloss Gottesaue

For all interested parties from Year 10 onwards

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Büttner Klavierwettbewerb 2025

Since 1998, the Dr Hermann Büttner Piano Competition has been organised annually by the lawyer named after him. Since 2017 Read more ...

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Musikinformatiker am CERN 2025

Music Informatics students went on an excursion to Geneva to visit the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN. Prof. Markus Klute (KIT) and Michael Hoch (CERN) had invited the students Read more ...

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James Gaffigan

We are delighted to welcome James Gaffigan, an important contemporary conductor, to our university. As chief conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin and music director at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sof... Read more...

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Rusalka Premiere

Premiere of the children's opera was a complete success

When do you get the chance to take a photo with a little mermaid?
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Schwetzingen Schlosspark Foto Matthias Wittig

Produced by the music journalists of the IMJ

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Upcoming events
October '25
October '25
11.
KARLSRUHER MEISTERKLASSEN 11-12 October 2025
BIOGRAPHYKristian Steenstrup graduated from The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark in 1992. He did his most important studies at Northwestern University in Chicago 1988-1990 and on numerous trips throughout the nineties with Professor Vincent Cichowicz and privately with Arnold Jacobs.Kristian is currently Professor of Trumpet at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, where he also published the book Teaching Brass in 2007 and recorded 2 CDs with Eriko Takezawa, ”Capriccio” and ”Danish… Weiterlesen
Saturday, 10:00 AM
CampusOne · Fany-Solter-Haus R107
Eventtype: Karlsruher Meisterklassen · Karlsruhe Masterclasses
October '25
12.
KARLSRUHER MEISTERKLASSEN 11–12 October, 2025
BIOGRAPHYKristian Steenstrup graduated from The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark in 1992. He did his most important studies at Northwestern University in Chicago 1988-1990 and on numerous trips throughout the nineties with Professor Vincent Cichowicz and privately with Arnold Jacobs.Kristian is currently Professor of Trumpet at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, where he also published the book Teaching Brass in 2007 and recorded 2 CDs with Eriko Takezawa, ”Capriccio” and ”Danish… Weiterlesen
Sunday, 10:00 AM
CampusOne · Fany-Solter-Haus R107
Eventtype: Karlsruher Meisterklassen · Karlsruhe Masterclasses
October '25
12.
Conversational concert as part of the project academy “The Art of Practice”
This concert-discussion centers on the world premiere of a collection of twelve character pieces for solo piano, composed by Uwe Kremp in 2022/23. In between pieces, the composer will talk about the tense relationship between artistic freedom and pedagogical necessity. The focus on selected technical problems typical of études is often found in character pieces as well. When études aspire to be more than mere technical finger exercises, they often tend toward character pieces, which thus seem… Weiterlesen
Sunday, 05:00 PM
CampusOne - Schloss Gottesaue · Velte-Saal
Eventtype: Klaviermusik · Piano Music

Institutes

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Insitut für Musikinformatik, Musikwissenschaft (IMWI)

Institut für Musikinformatik und Musikwissenschaft (IMWI)

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Proben im Insitut für MusikTheater

Institut für MusikTheater (IMT)

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Im Insitut für Musikjournalismus, Radio, TV, Internet (IMJ)

Institut für Musikjournalismus, Radio, TV, Internet (IMJ)

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Institut für neue Musik und Medien (InMM)

Institut für Neue Musik (INM)