Hochschule für Musik Detmold

In December 2006 the Hochschule für Music Detmold Foundation was formed to help finance extraordinary activities.

An alumni association was founded in October 2006; its present chairman is Prof. Martin Christoph Redel.

In 1956 the name was officially expanded to Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik.

The Hochschule has ten specifically equipped buildings at its disposal, which are arranged as a campus in and around the gardens of the Neues Palais [de]: string-players, wind-instruments, singers and percussionists have their own buildings; pianists and organists reside in the historic palace, where rehearsals and concerts for larger chamber music groups also take place.

The musicologists work in an Art Nouveau building at the outskirts of the gardens, whereas music-education students and future music teachers hold their academic seminars in the technically excellently equipped Pädagogikhaus.

The concert hall is equipped with a unique spatial audio rendering technique (Wave Field Synthesis).