The Spanish violinist Cibrán Sierra Vázquez founded his string quartet Cuarteto Quiroga in 2003. This masterclass marks his first visit to the Eisler School of Music, where he will also give a lecture on "Score reading – Building an interpretation" (in English).

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The students of KLANGZEITORT, the joint institute for New Music of the UdK Berlin and HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, regularly compose for the Berliner Lautsprecherorchester. During this concert, the loudspeakers themselves become independent performers, generating sound.

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In the Eisler Stars series with the Konzerthaus Berlin, we present artistic excellence at the highest level. As part of their Konzertexamen postgraduate courses of study, South Korean bass-baritone Hanseong Yun and Chinese violinist Qingzhu Weng will perform there this semester.

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Four of the Hanns Eisler School's outstanding soloists complete their concert exam in interaction with the Konzerthausorchester. They will perform works by Stravinsky, Martin?, Ravel, and Bartók.

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The tension-filled diversity of singing combined with chamber music – during the Eisler School's Voiceday, students and faculty once again present a rarely performed and unusual repertoire this summer.

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In the rbb Kultursalon, rbb presenter Fanny Tanck introduces teachers and students from Berlin’s music academies – live from the rbb rooftop lounge with a view over Berlin, and broadcast later on radio3.

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With passion, skill and stage presence, our vocal students have impressed the judges at prestigious international competitions and celebrated great successes in recent months.

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Over the past few months, three Eisler School master’s students have been accepted into international opera studios at renowned opera houses: Egor Sergeev, Alla Khaiut and Jaewoung Lee.

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Just under a year after the renegotiation of university contracts began, Berlin's state universities signed an amendment to the existing university contracts on 11 February 2026.

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Xunyue Zhang from Prof. Stephan Picard's violin class won first prize at the Mozarteum International Mozart Competition. Third prize went to Maxim Tzekov, who also studies at the Eisler School.

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Ukrainian violinist Georgii Moroz was awarded first prize at the International Violin Competition in Singapore. Fifth and sixth prizes went to Eisler students SongHa Choi and Qingzhu Weng.

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Saxophonist David Patyra, who studies with Xavier Larsson Paez, won first prize at the 2026 Supernova Competition in Belgium with his saxophone Quartet Effel.

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It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of our former voice professor and vice-rector Martin Bruns, who passed away far too early at the age of only 65 after a serious illness.

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The South Korean baritone from Ralf Lukas' singing class won the Grand Prize at the SD Seoul International Vocal Competition 2025 and third prize at the Concorso Viotti in Vercelli.

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Eisler alumnus Kens Lui is to become the new principal conductor at the Chemnitz Municipal Theatres. He completed his master's degree in conducting at the Eisler under Prof. Ehwald, Prof. Vitlin and Prof. Baum.

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The presidents and rectors of Germany's 24 music academies have elected Eisler Rector Prof. Andrea Tober as the new chair of the Rectors' Conference (RKM). She will take up the post in October.

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The Eisler alumnus has been selected as assistant conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and junior assistant conductor at the Dutch National Opera for the 2025–26 season.

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Eisler compiled a code of conduct in a participatory process and published it following a decision by the Academic Senate. The printed brochure is now available at the school.

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Ukrainian bachelor's student Fedir Sheiko from Prof. Louise Pollock's class won first prize in the IPV competition for tenor and bass trombone.

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Bass-baritone Bo Wang, a master's student of Prof. Roman Trekel, was awarded first prize and the audience prize at the 5th International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna.

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Two Eisler students emerged as winners of the prestigious Seoul International Music Competition 2025: Lilia Pocitari with 2nd prize and Yesong Sophie Lee with 3rd prize.

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