Endowed Guest Professorship Composition
Liza Lim will join us at the HfMDK for three work phases in the academic 2024/25 as Endowed Guest Professor of Composition. Welcome!
Liza Lim is a composer, educator and researcher whose music focuses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Beauty, anger and noise, ecological connections and female spiritual traditions are at the center of her recent works. In 2024 she was named Composer of the Year by Opus Klassik. She has also won a major research grant to investigate music and cross-species justice/ecological or superhuman perception and the communication of climate science. Lim is the Sculthorpe Chair of Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and has received numerous commissions from some of the world's most prominent orchestras and ensembles. Lim's catalog of works ranges from solo pieces and chamber music, which are essential repertoire pieces worldwide, to five strikingly different operas. In three work phases at the HfMDK she will collaborate with various departments of the university.
1. Working island: starting point
28.10.-1.11.2024
Inaugural lecture on "music and ecological thinking - links to performance practice" (28.10.), lecture-rehearsals with instrumentalists from the HfMDK and the IEMA (29.10.-1.11.)
2. Work island: string thinking
20.-25.1.2025
Workshops for string ensembles, lecture-rehearsals, cello master class
3. Working island: going New Music Night
25.4.-1.5.2025
more workshops and performances at the New Music Night on 30.4.2025
Guests welcome! Registration and information at the IzM. Please contact karin.dietrich@hfmdk-frankfurt.de
Strengthening the contemporary profile: About the endowed guest professorship
Since 2019, the HfMDK has established a unique endowed guest professorship with the help of the HfMDK Foundation, which was founded in 2016: Renowned composers come to Frankfurt for a year at a time to work with students from all departments. The program includes workshops with instrumentalists and students of composition and the performing arts as well as lectures and public performances, discussions and symposia.
The Foundation for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts contributes to the good development of the university and the excellent reputation of the HfMDK with its first project "Endowed Guest Professorship for Composition", which is comparable to the Endowed Guest Professorship for Poetics at Goethe University, and enriches the educational program. The university's existing good framework conditions in the areas of teaching, interpretation, networking and cooperation will be usefully expanded with this endowed guest professorship and will strengthen the HfMDK's contemporary profile and international appeal.
In 2019, Brian Ferneyhough was the first guest professor, in 2020/21 the Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti was in Frankfurt for three large project islands, in 2022/23 composer and inventor Koka Nikoladze worked with HfMDK students and teachers. In 2023/24, the Swiss collective blablabor with Annette Schmucki and Reto Friedmann were guests at the HfMDK. In 2024/25, Liza Lim holds the endowed guest professorship in composition.
An initiative of the Institute for Contemporary Music IzM of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, funded by the Foundation for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK Foundation)
