Thomas Hauschild

Professor Thomas Hauschild and his French horn masterclass at the music conservatory “Felix- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” in Leipzig: Thomas Hauschild, Johanna Mix, Cosima Schneider, Anna Euen, Moritz Haas, Antonio Redondo Hurtado, Andreas Pöche, Jakob Knauer, Francesco Lillo, Andreas Grün, Miguel Garcia Herrera, Jakob Cirkel.
Thomas Hauschild was born in 1964 into a characteristically musical family in Greiz, Thuringia.
He has taught at the music conservatory “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” in Leipzig since 2001.
His studies in piano, at the St. Thomas Choir School in Leipzig, and in horn with Hermann Märker, Günther Opitz and Erich Penzel provided the foundation for his extensive musical activities as a soloist and conductor, orchestra and chamber musician, for numerous CDs and radio recordings as well as for his teaching, first in Stuttgart and today in Leipzig. As a hornist who plays both the modern horn as well as the natural and baroque horn, Thomas Hauschild successfully passes on his extensive knowledge and experience to the next generation.
The study of chamber music in various formations – from horn quartet to large brass ensemble, wind ensemble, or chamber music with stringed instruments – is an important component in the study of music. For this reason, Thomas Hauschild and his masterclass have developed throughout the years a tradition of playing in a horn octet. He had already begun this tradition during his tenure as a lecturer at the Music Conservatory in Stuttgart.
His masterclass there would regularly travel throughout the country to perform concerts of repertoire for eight horns organized by Thomas Hauschild as well as by the students themselves.
The repertoire was drawn from arrangements for eight horns to original compositions, ranging from the baroque to the modern era. Various instruments were employed, like the Wagner Tuba or the Inventionshorn.Several times per year the students -including exchange students and members of German orchestras (e.g. Chemnitz, Jena, Stuttgart and Bremen) - come together to work on this repertoire.