28 Notable alumni of
Hanns Eisler Academy of Music
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The Hanns Eisler Academy of Music is 1245th in the world, 432nd in Europe, and 51st in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lothar de Maizière
- Occupations
- musicianpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Lothar de Maizière is a German Christian Democratic politician. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this office during the final months before German reunification. Subsequently he briefly served as a minister in the new government of the unified Federal Republic of Germany.
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Christian Thielemann
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- music directorconductor
- Biography
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Christian Thielemann is a German conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and the designated Generalmusikdirektor of the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper Unter den Linden).
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Sol Gabetta
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- music teacheruniversity teachercellist
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Sol Gabetta is an Argentine cellist. The daughter of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, she has French and Russian ancestry. Her brother Andrés is a baroque violinist.
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Jenny Erpenbeck
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- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- writerdirectortheatrical director
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Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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Vladimir Jurowski
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- composerconductormusic director
- Biography
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski is a Russian conductor. He is the son of conductor Michail Jurowski, and grandson of Soviet film music composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski.
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Lahav Shani
- Occupations
- conductorpianistmusicianclassical pianist
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Lahav Shani is an Israeli conductor, pianist and double bassist.
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Jochen Kowalski
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Jochen Kowalski is a German alto or mezzo countertenor, noted for his very rich timbre.
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Anna Prohaska
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Anna Prohaska is an Austrian-British lyric soprano. She lives in Berlin.
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Camille Thomas
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- cellist
- Biography
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Camille Thomas is a Franco-Belgian cellist.
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Michael Sanderling
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- cellistconductor
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Michael Sanderling is a German conductor and violoncellist.
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Mahani Teave
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- pianist
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Mahani Teave is a classical pianist from Easter Island, Chile.
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Siegfried Matthus
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- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Siegfried Matthus was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as Judith, were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus is considered one of Germany's most often performed contemporary composers.
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Georg Katzer
- Enrolled in the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Georg Katzer was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR. He held leading positions in music organisations, first in the East (Akademie der Künste der DDR), then in the united Germany (Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Deutscher Musikrat), and received many awards, including the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Music Authors' Prize.
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Farrah El-Dibany
- Enrolled in the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Farrah El-Dibany an Egyptian mezzo-soprano. She is the first Egyptian and African singer to join the Paris Opera Academy in 2016.
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Juan Pérez Floristán
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- pianist
- Biography
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Juan Pérez Floristán is a Spanish classical pianist.
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Antje Weithaas
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- music teacherviolinistprofessor
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Antje Weithaas is a German classical violinist. Apart from solo recitals and chamber music performances, she has played with leading orchestras in Europe, Asia and the United States.
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Günter Kochan
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- music arrangerclassical composerfilm score composeruniversity teacher
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Günter Kochan was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was also secretary of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts from 1972 to 1974 and vice-president of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR from 1977 to 1982. Kochan is one of eleven laureates to have been awarded the National Prize of the GDR four times. In addition, he received composition prizes in the US and Eastern Europe. He became internationally known in particular for his Symphonies as well as the cantata Die Asche von Birkenau (1965) and his Music for Orchestra No. 2 (1987). His versatile oeuvre included orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, mass songs and film music and is situated between socialist realism and avant-garde.
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Johannes Moser
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- cellist
- Biography
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Johannes Moser is a German-Canadian cellist who has played with leading orchestras internationally.
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Jörg-Peter Weigle
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- conductoruniversity teacherchoir directormusic teacher
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Jörg-Peter Weigle, is a German conductor and music professor. He is the uncle of the conductor Sebastian Weigle and the violist Friedemann Weigle. Weigle received his first musical training from 1963 to 1971 as a member of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. From 1973 to 1978, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, where his teachers included Horst Förster (conducting), Dietrich Knothe (choral conducting) and Ruth Zechlin (counterpoint). He later participated in master classes with Kurt Masur and Witold Rowicki.
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Klaus Martin Kopitz
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- musicologistcomposer
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Klaus Martin Kopitz is a German composer and musicologist. He became known in particular with his album Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea. 20 songs for 2 pianos. In the US, it was 2018 on the annual "Want List" of the music magazine Fanfare.
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Tilo Medek
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- musiciancomposermusic publisher
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Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek, was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin's Decree on Peace led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the West, where he composed an opera Katharina Blum based on Heinrich Böll's novel, and worked in education. He received international awards from 1967 onwards.
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Caroline Fischer
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- pianist
- Biography
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Caroline Fischer is a German pianist. She has performed around the world and has received several awards and prizes.
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Ana-Marija Markovina
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- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Ana-Marija Markovina is a Croatian classical pianist. She lives in Cologne with her husband, the psychologist Helmut Reuter, and their daughter.
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Hugo Leichtentritt
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- musicologistcomposer
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Hugo Leichtentritt was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg.
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Maria Baptist
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- pianistuniversity teachercomposer
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Maria Baptist is a German musician (pianist, composer) and professor.
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Roman Twardy
- Occupations
- conductorteacher
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Roman Twardy is a German teacher, academic lecturer and the conductor of the Wiesbadener Knabenchor boys' choir in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. The choir appears internationally and has made recordings. From 2019, Twardy is also interim conductor of the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden.
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Marek Kalbus
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Marek Kalbus is a German opera and concert singer. He has the voice of a typical basso cantante and sings bass and bass-baritone roles.
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David Hermann
- Occupations
- theatrical director
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David Hermann is a German-French stage director focused on opera. In 2006, Hermann was the youngest stage director at the Salzburg Festival, and he has directed operas at major opera houses in Europe.
