Alumnus Arndt Martin Henzelmann appointed professor in Munich
The Munich University of Music and Theatre has appointed Eisler alumnus Arndt Martin Henzelmann to a half professorship in choral conducting at the Institute of Church Music. Since November 2024, he has been responsible for the choral conducting training of students of Catholic and Protestant church music and has taken over the artistic direction of the university choir. Arndt Martin Henzelmann first studied church and school music in Cologne and for his Master's degree in Choral Conducting with Prof. Jörg-Peter Weigle at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, which he completed in 2018.
He is artistic director of the Consortium musicum Berlin, musical assistant at the Staats- und Domchor Berlin and recently founded the Collegium Vocale Iuvenum Köln, a project ensemble of young singers specialising in baroque music.
From 2019 to 2024, he taught as a full-time lecturer in choral conducting at the Institute of Church Music at the Berlin University of the Arts and held a teaching position at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. He is regularly engaged as a lecturer for conducting courses and music weeks.
He has worked with numerous large ensembles and orchestras such as the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra or the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and early music ensembles such as the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Concerto Brandenburg, aris et aulis berlin or the lautten compagney BERLIN. At the same time, he has performed with chamber choirs such as the Landesjugendchor Rheinland-Pfalz and conducted the vocal ensemble neuer chor berlin.