Next Generation 2023

Seminars, dialogues and participations for and with performers, composers and media artists.  

Tutors: Svetlana Maraš, Teresa Carrasco, Luc Döbereiner, Johannes Kreidler, Michael Kunkel, Phileas Baun 

A project by the Basel Academy of Music, Hochschule für Musik Trossingen and SWR Donaueschinger Musiktage 

This year, the Festival Donaueschinger Musiktage is once again offering 102 music students* the chance to attend nearly all concerts of the festival, take part in seminars and workshops and to acquaint themselves with those involved in the festival through dialogues and discussions.  

The Next Generation programme takes up current discourses: what preoccupies the emerging generation of composers and performers? What are their points of orientation? What are their frames of reference? What do they set themselves apart from?  

In discussion groups and seminars, the students will subject their own work and this year’s festival programme to intense examination. During the Johannes Kreidler-LAB "Composing the composing”, the students realize and present own artistic ideas under the direction of the composer Johannes Kreidler. The “Breakout Sessions” give space for free discussions led by the students themselves about events and experiences at the 2023 edition of Donaueschinger Musiktage.  

The complete course programme will be published in September 2023. 
 

Enrolment Facts 
The price for the complete package is 195 €**, which covers the following:  

• Accommodation and breakfast at the youth hostel in Jugendherberge Rottweil (allocation of the rooms will be carried out by the organizer)  
• Bus transfers between the hostel in Rottweil and the event venues in Donaueschingen 
• Participation in the events of the Next Generation programme (seminars, dialogues and workshops)  
• Tickets for the festival concerts (one performance for repeated concerts, excluded: Karl-Sczuka-Preises, Next Generation cannot guarantee access to all festival events) 
• Official festival programme catalogue 

• Welcome reception at the Donauhallen on Wednesday 18 October 7pm including a meal 

* Participation is only possible with a valid Certificate of matriculation. Students interested in acquiring credits for a bachelor or masters programme can receive a Certificate of participation. 
**Participants who do not require accommodation will pay 100 € for the concerts and other events. 

The enrolment obliges the participant to attend the whole course program.  

Organizational Information 

Arrival & Departure  
Participating students must arrive in Donaueschingen by Wednesday 18 October at the latest in order to take part in the Next Generation programme. Anyone arriving later will be unable to participate!  

The programme ends around 8 pm on Sunday 22 October. Departure can take place either directly thereafter or on the morning of Monday 23 October.  

Instruments & Rehearsals during the programme 

Participants, who carry instruments with them, are responsible for their instruments by themselves. Instruments may have to be stored in luggage buses during concerts. It is not possible to provide any rehearsal rooms during the programme, neither in Donaueschingen nor in Rottweil. 

Meals & Schedule 

Please note, that the programme schedule is very full (usually from around 9am to midnight) and that participants have to organize their meals by themselves. Breakfast is included for those, who chose accommodation at the youth hostel. 

Enrolment can take place from 3 July, 9 am until 15 August 2023 using the form under this link: 
Akkreditierung Next Generation | Donauquellstadt Donaueschingen