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Lennart Dohms

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Lennart Dohms Studiengangsleiter MA Performance

Contact

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Bern Academy of the Arts
    Musik
    Ostermundigenstrasse 103
    3006 Bern

Activities

  • Head of program Master Performanc Music Classic / Master Specialized Performance Music Classic - Soloist

Teaching

  • Master Performance Musik Classic - Master Specialized Performance Music Classic

  • Ensemble Contemporary Music - Conducting Contemporary Music

CV

  • Lennart Dohms was born in Bonn in 1981. After studying theology, musicology as well as film and theater studies at the University of Cologne, he completed his musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Conservatoire supérieur de Paris and the Dresden University of Music, where he graduated with distinction. He drew significant inspiration from his collaborations with Manos Tsangaris, Elena Mendoza, Peter Gülke, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann. Transdisciplinary performances, works exploring the (re)contextualisation of music, and an interest in socio-cultural fields of development are a driving force behind his work both within and outside institutions.
    He works as a conductor, lecturer or performer with orchestras and ensembles across Europe and has premiered or given the first performance of over 400 works, ranging from chamber music and experimental pieces to large-scale opera productions.
    As a founding member of the ensemble “el perro andaluz”, he was awarded the Dresden Cultural Prize; for his work as a conductor, he received the Arras Prize. With the ensemble, he is both part of the multi-award-winning cooperative cultural institution “Zentralwerk Dresden” and a member of FREO, the association representing independent ensembles and orchestras in Germany.
    He is an alumnus of the Akademie Musiktheater heute. The latter, along with the Berlin Academy of the Arts, invited him to serve as a jury member. In 2018, he was appointed a full member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts.
    At the Bern University of the Arts, he has been programme director for the Master’s in Classical Performance and the Master’s in Specialised Classical Performance since 2013. There, he has developed the specialisations in Research, New Music (including a joint D-A-CH Master’s programme), Music in Context and Chamber Music into distinct study programmes. In this role at the HKB, he was responsible for several large-scale transdisciplinary performances (“Angelus Novus”, “L’europe sauvage”), which were developed collaboratively by students from all departments.