主講人:Lars Seniuk (President, HfM Dresden) &
Lisa Fornhammar (德勒斯登新音樂創新聲樂技巧與詮釋客座教授、國際長)
日期:2025.12.08(一)
時間: 15:30~17:10
地點:北藝大音樂一館M102
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With family roots in Poland and Ukraine, Lars Seniuk (born 1989) grew up in Norderstedt, on the outskirts of Hamburg. Although his parents were neither academics nor musicians, he was fortunate enough to receive classical trumpet training from Prof. Hans-Jörg Packeiser and preparatory studies in jazz trumpet from Prof. Ingolf Burkhardt at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT Hamburg). He subsequently studied jazz trumpet and composition (for classical, contemporary, and jazz music) in Berlin and Hamburg. This support, which he received despite his socioeconomic status and immigrant background, formed the basis for his later involvement as a director of NGOs and as a passionate university lecturer and mentor of young talent – central areas of activity and concerns within his own career.
Lars Seniuk was a member of the Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein state youth jazz orchestras and, at the age of 17, became the youngest member of the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra. As a trumpeter, he has performed with, among others, the NDR Bigband, the Global Music Orchestra, the Jazz Kollektiv Berlin, the Andy Middleton Sextet, and numerous of his own projects in a wide variety of styles, ranging from jazz and contemporary classical music to avant-garde and various so-called world music genres.
In 2005, Lars Seniuk founded his first professional big band. Seniuk is the artistic director of the New German Art Orchestra, whose members come from all over Germany and with whom he released the critically acclaimed album “Pendulum” in 2015 (“a captivating listening experience,” Jazz Podium; “Modern big band jazz at its finest,” SWR), which was nominated for the ECHO Jazz 2016 award in the “Big Band Album of the Year” category.
He also works regularly as a composer and conductor with, among others, the hr Big Band, the NDR Big Band, and the WDR Big Band.
The musician, described by the press as a “high-flyer” (Hessian Broadcasting, SWR) and a “jack-of-all-trades” (Deutschlandfunk), led the Hamburg State Youth Jazz Orchestra from 2014 to 2020, developing it into one of Europe’s leading select orchestras and winning the International Big Band Competition in the Netherlands under his direction in 2019.
After teaching positions at the music academies in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Weimar in a wide range of subjects from conducting and trumpet to composition and music theory, as well as teaching, pedagogy and didactics, Lars Seniuk was appointed in 2019 at the age of 29 as Professor of Jazz Trumpet, Ensemble and Big Band and Head of the Jazz Institute at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna, where he also supervised and taught in the doctoral program.
In addition, he leads international research projects on topics including cultural exchange, digitization in art and teaching and university didactics, works as a curator and producer and gives guest performances and masterclasses worldwide.
His students include numerous international soloists, members of renowned classical orchestras, and university lecturers.
In 2015, Lars Seniuk founded the non-profit initiative Miteinander durch Musik e.V. (Together through Music), which initiates, implements, and supports music projects for refugee children, teenagers, and adults throughout Germany on a voluntary basis and is committed to combating racism and xenophobia. From 2017 to 2021, he also served as the volunteer chairman of Jazzbüro Hamburg e.V., the umbrella organization for jazz in Hamburg, and in 2018 he launched the Jazz & Gender working group, which aims to investigate the reasons for the low number of female jazz musicians and explore potential solutions.
Lisa Fornhammar is a versatile singer, educator and researcher who has made a name for herself with an extraordinary artistic range and innovative teaching approaches. She completed her vocal studies at the Opera Studio in Stockholm and in Lied singing at the Mozarteum Salzburg under the direction of Hartmut Höll. Her repertoire includes works from the Baroque to the contemporary avant-garde and ranges from Bach’s cantatas to Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre to demanding opera roles such as Konstanze (The Abduction from the Seraglio) and Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann).
Engagements have taken her to renowned opera houses and stages, including the Norske Opera Oslo, the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, the National Theatre of Iceland in Reykjavik, the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Leipzig Opera, the Chemnitz Theatre, the Lucerne Theatre and the Bern City Theatre. In addition, she has made guest appearances in important concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Cologne Philharmonic and the Konzerthaus Berlin.
A special concern of hers is the promotion and interpretation of contemporary music. She has worked closely with renowned composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Lisa Streich, Fabien Levy, Isabel Mundry, Helmut Lachenmann and Violeta Dinescu and has premiered numerous works.
In addition to her artistic activities, she is an internationally sought-after educator. Since 2007 she has been teaching New Music Performance Practice at the Mozarteum Salzburg and since 2020 singing as a central artistic subject in the Master’s programme in New Music. In addition, she has worked as a lecturer at the Leipzig University of Music and Drama and at the Berlin University of the Arts. She regularly shares her pedagogical expertise in guest lectures and master classes at leading institutions, including the Berlin University of the Arts, the Bern University of the Arts, the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, the University of the Arts Helsinki and the Bari University of Applied Sciences.
Her scientific interest is in experimental tuning techniques, innovative pedagogical concepts and curriculum development in the field of studies in the field of music colleges. Her research results have already received international recognition, including the publication of the scientific article “Measuring Voice Effects on Ingressive Singing” (2020, Journal of Voice), together with Michael Fuchs, Johan Sundberg and Lennart Pieper. The article “Towards a Collaborative Higher Music Education Curriculum: A Singer-Composer Duoethnography” will soon be published in Nordic Research in Music Education. She is currently in the final stages of her PhD at the University of the Arts Helsinki on these topics.
Since 2023, Lisa Fornhammar has been a visiting professor for innovative vocal techniques and modes of interpretation in New Music and heads the master’s program in New Music at the Dresden University of Music. In 2024, she was appointed as a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts.
Later this year, she will be heard in the German premiere in a portrait concert of Lisa Streich’s “Mignon Songs” at the HfM Dresden, with Hinrich Alpers, Professor of Piano – a special example of lived artistic transdisciplinarity, in which the pianist also sings and the singer also plays the piano.