Composition Residency

Please note the changed start time. Start at 7:00 pm instead of 6:00 pm.

Christoph Baumgarten (*2000 in Halle/Saale) studied composition in Weimar with Michael Obst and Ulrich Kreppein. He is currently studying in Leipzig with Fabien Lévy. He has received further inspiration from Malika Kishino, Gordon Kampe, Jay Schwartz and, as part of the Lucerne Festival, Unsuk Chin and Dieter Ammann. He is a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In recent years, he has composed several works for various instrumentations, which have been performed by performers such as the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the IEMA, the Ensemble ascolta and the Ensemble Modern.
He is expected to present a composition for trumpet, violoncello and piano.

Carlotta Rabea Joachim (*1995 Ruhrgebiet) studied violin and composition (junior studies, bachelor's, master's, masterclass) in Detmold, Essen, Lucerne and Munich with Dieter Ammann and Moritz Eggert, among others. She was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Her works have been performed in Europe, the USA and South America, including by the Scharoun Ensemble, the Modern Art Ensemble and the National Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Prague. She wrote her first stage work Betterplazes for the Neukölln Opera. Together with the Holst-Sinfonietta, she founded the Freiburg Composition Workshop for young people. She has led various workshops in the fields of composition and music education at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, worked as a concert and music theatre dramaturge at the Münster Theatre and taught music education at the University of Marburg.
She is expected to present a composition for violin, percussion, piano and baritone.

In co-operation with the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes