Press Releases 2024 20172018201920202021202220232024123456789101112 Cosmopolitan Thuringia With around 45 per cent international students from more than 50 nations, a large number of international teachers and staff and numerous active… Promoting excellence Thanks to the generous support of foundations, companies and private sponsors, the University of Music FRANZ LISZT has once again been able to award… New worlds The Collegium Musicum Weimar is bringing a pinch of flamenco to the Schießhaus: under the direction of conducting student and artistic director of the… Underestimated art The book series "KlangZeiten - Musik, Politik und Gesellschaft" celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024. The musicological series, which has been… Body and Soul The "HfM Jazz Orchestra" of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar presents a dynamic concert of the music of Peter Herbolzheimer, one of the most… New music in concert For the second time, ENSEMBLE MOMENT, founded in 2023, will take the audience into previously unheard-of worlds of sound. In an interdisciplinary… Twelve competitions, twelve wins For the twelfth time, the MDR Symphony Orchestra has organised a conducting competition together with the three Central German music universites in… Accolade in Bonn A student from Prof Grigory Gruzman's piano class in Weimar celebrated a huge success in December 2023: Lovre Marušić won the €25,000 2nd prize at the… School musicians in competition Budding music teachers show off their amazing virtuoso skills on the piano and with their voices at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. The… AI in music In the eleventh episode of LISZTEN, presenter Christofer Hameister talks to music theorist and composer Jörn Arnecke. Jörn Arnecke, professor of…