As a permanent teaching institution, a composers' colloquium entitled "Music of our time" is held at the Institute of Music under the direction of Violeta Dinescu and Jörg Siepermann. Composers of contemporary music from Germany and abroad (e.g. Mauricio Kagel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmut Oehring) and lesser-known composers will present their works, projects and pieces for discussion. In accompanying courses, these works are analysed and examined from a musicological perspective.

This semester, the composers' colloquium will focus on the contemporary string quartet. Nine composers from Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Romania and the USA will talk about their string quartet work and present their own works. There will also be additional concerts such as the song recital with Bianca and Remus Manoleanu, which will feature songs by Romanian composers, some of which have never been performed in Germany before.

At the end of each semester, students are given the opportunity to present their own compositions in public as part of the composers' colloquium. They are supported by professional performers from the region.

Unless otherwise stated, the events take place at 6.00 pm in the Chamber Music Hall (A11).

The Composers' Colloquium is organised in co-operation with oh ton Förderung aktueller Musik e.V.

26 October 2007: Michael Denhoff (Bonn)

9 November 2007: Song recital with contemporary music from Romania
Bianca and Remus Manoleanu (Bucharest)

16 November 2007: Corneliu Dan Georgescu (Bucharest/Berlin)

23-25 November 2007: Symposium "Composing under Suspicion - Suspect Composing"
Information on the symposium

30 November 2007: Peter Michael Hamel (Hamburg)

14 December 2007: Willem Schulz (Bielefeld)

21 December 2007: Stefan Lindemann (Ganderkesee)
"Streichquartett plus: k(l)eine Liebeslieder"

11 January 2008: Sidney Corbett (Chicago/Mannheim)

18 January 2008: Krzysztof Meyer (Krakow/Cologne)

25 January 2008: Adriana Hölszky (Stuttgart/Salzburg) and Luca Lombardi (Rome)
The Nomos Quartet plays works by Adriana Hölszky and Luca Lombardi
Introduction: Prof. Dr Reto Weiler
In co-operation with oh-ton klangpol - Netzwerk Neue Musik
20:00 galerie kunstück, Industriestraße 1, 26121 Oldenburg

1 February 2008: A German-Polish-Czech evening
Birthday concert for Prof. Dr Hans Henning Hahn (Eastern European History, Oldenburg)

8 February 2008
18:00 - Students of the University of Oldenburg present their own compositions
19:00 - Romania Today - contemporary music from Romania.
Aurelian Octav Popa (clarinet), Sanda Craciun-Popa (viola)

Aurelian Octav Popa will also be playing on 5 February at 19:00 in the PFL (chamber music evening with works by Purcell, Telemann, Daquin, Rameau, Brahms, Enescu and Poulenc) and on 7 February at 20:00 in the Aula (Mozart: Clarinet Concerto KV622 with the University Orchestra conducted by Rida Murtada).

16 February 2008: Gustavo on demand.
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt - virtual library and real concert. With the Ensemble Taller Música Contemporánea, Chile
In co-operation with oh-ton klangpol - Netzwerk Neue Musik
Please also note the oh-ton concert on 18 February 2008.