30 Notable alumni of Hanns Eisler Academy of Music
Updated: May 30, 2026 EliteDegrees
Hanns Eisler Academy of Music is ranked #7,622 in the world and #241 in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from Hanns Eisler Academy of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Hanns Eisler Academy of Music won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Maria Baptist
1971-. (aged 55)
university teacher
pianist
composer
Maria Baptist is a German musician (pianist, composer) and professor.
2. Roman Twardy
teacher
conductor
Roman Twardy is a German teacher, academic lecturer and the conductor of the Wiesbadener Knabenchor boys' choir in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. The choir appears internationally and has made recordings. From 2019, Twardy is also interim conductor of the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden.
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3. Marek Kalbus
1969-. (aged 57)
opera singer
Marek Kalbus is a German opera and concert singer. He has the voice of a typical basso cantante and sings bass and bass-baritone roles.
4. David Hermann
1977-. (aged 49)
director
theatrical director
David Hermann is a German-French stage director focused on opera. In 2006, Hermann was the youngest stage director at the Salzburg Festival, and he has directed operas at major opera houses in Europe.
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5. Ana-Marija Markovina
1970-. (aged 56)
pianist
Ana-Marija Markovina is a Croatian classical pianist. She lives in Cologne with her husband, the psychologist Helmut Reuter, and their daughter.
6. Hugo Leichtentritt
1874-1951 (aged 77)
composer
musicologist
Hugo Leichtentritt was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg.
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7. Georg Katzer
1935-2019 (aged 84)
university teacher
film score composer
composer
Georg Katzer was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR. He held leading positions in music organisations, first...
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8. Antje Weithaas
1966-. (aged 60)
violinist
music educator
professor
Antje Weithaas is a German classical violinist. Apart from solo recitals and chamber music performances, she has played with leading orchestras in Europe, Asia and the United States.
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9. Johannes Moser
1979-. (aged 47)
cellist
Johannes Moser is a German-Canadian cellist who has played with leading orchestras internationally.
10. Günter Kochan
1930-2009 (aged 79)
university teacher
film score composer
classical composer
composer
music arranger
Günter Kochan was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He...
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11. Jörg-Peter Weigle
1953-. (aged 73)
conductor
music educator
choir director
university teacher
Jörg-Peter Weigle, is a German conductor and music professor. He is the uncle of the conductor Sebastian Weigle and the violist Friedemann Weigle. Weigle received his first musical training from 1963 to 1971 as a member of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. From 1973 to 1978, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, where his teachers included...
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12. Klaus Martin Kopitz
1955-. (aged 71)
composer
musicologist
Klaus Martin Kopitz is a German composer and musicologist. He became known in particular with his album Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea. 20 songs for 2 pianos. In the US, it was 2018 on the annual "Want List" of the music magazine Fanfare.
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13. Tilo Medek
1940-2006 (aged 66)
music publisher
composer
musician
Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek, was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin's Decree on Peace led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the...
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14. Olga Peretyatko
1980-. (aged 46)
opera singer
Olga Alexandrovna Peretyatko is a Russian operatic soprano. She has been known for lyric and coloratura soprano roles, most notably in operas by Rossini and Mozart. In recent years, she has been taking up heavier and more lyrical roles.
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15. Lahav Shani
1989-. (aged 37)
pianist
conductor
classical pianist
musician
Lahav Shani is an Israeli conductor, pianist and double bassist. He is the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
16. Jochen Kowalski
1954-. (aged 72)
opera singer
Jochen Kowalski is a German alto or mezzo countertenor, noted for his very rich timbre.
17. Anna Prohaska
1983-. (aged 43)
opera singer
Anna Prohaska is an Austrian-British lyric soprano. She lives in Berlin.
18. Camille Thomas
1988-. (aged 38)
cellist
Camille Thomas is a Franco-Belgian cellist.
19. Michael Sanderling
1967-. (aged 59)
conductor
cellist
Michael Sanderling is a German conductor and violoncellist.
20. Juan Pérez Floristán
1993-. (aged 33)
pianist
Juan Pérez Floristán is a Spanish classical pianist.
21. Siegfried Matthus
1934-2021 (aged 87)
composer
conductor
Siegfried Matthus was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as Judith, were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus...
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22. Vladimir Jurowski
1972-. (aged 54)
music director
conductor
composer
Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski is a Russian conductor resident in Germany. He is the son of conductor Michail Jurowski, and grandson of Soviet film music composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski.
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23. Christian Thielemann
1959-. (aged 67)
conductor
music director
Christian Thielemann is a German conductor. He is Generalmusikdirektor of the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper Unter den Linden) and chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Berlin.
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24. Jenny Erpenbeck
1967-. (aged 59)
writer
novelist
director
theatrical director
Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer and opera director. She won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos.
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25. Sol Gabetta
1981-. (aged 45)
musician
university teacher
presenter
music educator
cellist
Sol Gabetta is an Argentine cellist. The daughter of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, she has French, Argentinian, and Russian ancestry. Her brother Andrés is a baroque violinist.
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26. Lothar de Maizière
1940-. (aged 86)
lawyer
politician
musician
Lothar de Maizière is a German former politician of the Christian Democratic Union. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this office during the final months before German reunification. Subsequently he briefly served as a minister in the new government of the unified Federal Republic of Germany until...
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27. Caroline Fischer
1984-. (aged 42)
pianist
Caroline Fischer is a German pianist. She has performed globally and has received numerous awards and prizes.
28. Farrah El-Dibany
1989-. (aged 37)
opera singer
Farrah El-Dibany is an Egyptian mezzo-soprano. She is the first Egyptian and African singer to join the Paris Opera Academy in 2016.
29. Diana Tishchenko
1990-. (aged 36)
violinist
Diana Tishchenko is a Ukrainian born classical violinist and the winner of the International Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris 2018. Named "Rising Star" by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) in 2020, she has performed at the leading concert halls of Europe.
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30. Mahani Teave
1983-. (aged 43)
pianist
Mahani Teave is a classical pianist from Easter Island, Chile.