Newsletter HKB Music 

October 2025

Dear music lovers

After a long summer break from this newsletter, we are excited to regularly update you again on the activities and concerts of HKB Music. Many moments can be shared with us at public events. Come and join us!

Best regards - the HKB Music team 

Concert Program for Autumn/Winter 2025

The autumn semester has begun – and with it, our concert season. In the coming months, there will be numerous projects with and by our students: in addition to regular formats such as class auditions in the classical area or the concert series Chrut u Rüebe featuring jazz and contemporary music, several large and unique performances will take place. Get an overview by browsing through our comprehensive event brochure:

Playtime Posters Awarded

Twice already, the Playtime posters have won awards in the Best 100 Posters competition from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Now, the Playtime 2025 poster has been recognized in Edinburgh, selected from 2,200 entries in the Edinburgh Poster Competition. Additionally, the studio received an invitation to present PLAYTIME at the first Shanghai International Poster Design Exhibition in December 2025. Congratulations to the HKB Atelier for this fantastic work!

“Rhizom” plays Pastorale

The HKB Chamber Orchestra will perform a special concert: three works are being developed collectively, without a central conductor. The program includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, also known as Pastorale, Carl Maria von Weber’s First Clarinet Concerto, and a free improvisation by the entire ensemble.

Fri, 17.10.2025, 7.30 pm

Yehudi Menuhin Forum Bern, Helvetiaplatz 6, 3005 Bern

125 Years: "Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein"

In cooperation with HKB, the KKL Lucerne will host a weekend exhibition titled "In the Focus of Developments", reflecting on the eventful history of the “Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein”. At a book launch on Saturday, musicologists and HKB researchers Thomas Gartmann, Doris Lanz, and Raphaël Sudan will also present two new, complementary collected volumes on the subject.

Sat/Sun, 22./23.11.2025


KKL, Foyer, Europaplatz 1, 6005 Lucerne


ECMA Session in Bern

For the tenth time, the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) is organizing a session in Bern together with HKB. Students and ensembles from across Europe will spend an intensive week with masterclasses, workshops, and concerts. The anniversary edition focuses on the theme of repetition in music and teaching, fittingly under the motto “Play it again…”.

Mon–Sat, 24.–29.11.2025

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Picture above: The event brochure for Music, Fall Semester 2025, designed by the HKB Atelier. (photo: Alex Anderfuhren).
Picture below: In September 2025, Joshua LeBlanc-Demers performed his final concert for the Master's program in Music Composition – Contemporary Jazz with many fellow musicians. (photo: Alex Anderfuhren).