2025 Darmstädter Ferienkurse

Abstract

Everybody said that it was a good year this year for Darmstadt. It’s hard to disagree – just about everything in the typical wall-to-wall-programming and the self-curated Open Spaces was not just enjoyable but creatively galvanizing. The level of musicianship, as always, was extremely high, and the tutors seemed particularly adept at inspiring their students. It’s probably precisely because there wasn’t some big totalizing effort to make a statement on The Future of Music that questions on the future of music were raised with such urgency and eloquence. As always, there was about sixteen days’ worth of music happening, so what follows is a very selective cross-section. I will start with the workshops.