Abteilung Schulmusik, an institute for school music education,[2] by Ernst Laaff and Georg Toussaint.
[2] In 2003, the institution was named Hochschule für Musik (School of Music), which is connected to the university but governed mostly independently.
[6] Wolfram Koloseus conducted the premiere of a composition commissioned for the occasion, Sechs Trakl Gesänge by Thomas Wells after poems by Georg Trakl, a work of 45 minutes for tenor soloist, choir and orchestra,[7] and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.
[5] The Hochschule collaborates with numerous cultural institutions of the area, namely the Staatstheater Mainz, the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden,[8] the state foundation Villa Musica,[2] the Peter Cornelius Conservatory[9] and the institute for church music of the Catholic Diocese of Mainz.
[10] The Hochschule and the theatre in Wiesbaden collaborated in 2017 in a staged production of Scarlatti's oratorio La Giuditta.