On 7 April, Professor Matthias Hermann from the Stuttgart Musikhochschule will give two special seminars on new music:

10:45–12:15 “Conducting of New Music” (A202)
14:30–16:00 “Helmut Lachenmann and Rebecca Saunders” (A202)

Conductor, music theorist and composer Matthais Hermann is a student of Helmut Lachenmann and a specialist in the music of his mentor. Hermann also has close contacts with Rebecca Saunders and other contemporary composers. He recently conducted works by Christian Mason and Lachenmann at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and in May he will perform works by Claude Vivier, Lachenmann and Saunders in Munich with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hermann has also enjoyed great success conducting Lachenmann’s “Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern” (“The Girl with the Matches”) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and Zurich Opera.