Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin

The Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin is one of the leading music academies in Europe and beyond.

With international artists such as Willy Decker, David Geringas, Gidon Kremer, Hanspeter Kyburz, Marie Luise Neunecker, Thomas Quasthoff, Julia Varady, Antje Weithaas and Tabea Zimmermann on the teaching faculty, an excellent standard of training is guaranteed. Academy students work with well-known artists - Midori, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann - in orchestral workshops and masterclasses. In addition, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and Wolfgang Rihm support the artistic and pedagogical goals of the Academy in their function as Honorary Senators.

More than half of the 600 students come to Berlin from around the world, attracted by the excellent training in voice/music theatre, stage directing, strings, harp, woodwind and brass, percussion, conducting, piano accompaniment/coaching, piano and composition/harmony in the historic centre of Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt and in the New Marstall, with its prominent address on the Schloßplatz near the museum island, or in jazz at the Jazz-Institute Berlin.

Each year over 400 events are presented to the public, emphasising the practical nature of the training. Class recitals, exam concerts, opera productions and concerts by the Academy's ensembles, e.g. the symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, chorus, studio orchestra, symphonic wind orchestra, Eisler Brass, ECHO ensemble for new music or the numerous chamber music groups, have earned the Academy a permanent place in the cultural landscape of Berlin.

The Academy nurtures its contacts with excellent orchestras and opera houses, for example the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation. In both these houses regular symphonic, choral and faculty concerts are held. In recent years the Kurt Singer Institute for musicians' health, the Institute for New Music and the Jazz-Institute Berlin were founded, in conjunction with the University of the Arts. These institutions are symbols of the comprehensive and innovative quality of the Academy's education profile.