The Lübeck Academy of Music () in

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, Germany, is the only higher level music school in the northernmost state of

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. The school is located in the

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city of Lübeck, a historic

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city. The school was founded in 1973 but its tradition goes back to 1911. The enrollment is approximately 500 students. The teaching staff includes

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and others; current president is Rico Gubler. The

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, an annual summer festival devoted to classical music, holds its master classes at the academy. The school is a member of the Baltic Association of Music Academies.

Alumni

Among the alumni of the Musikhochschule Lübeck is Catherine Rückwardt, who became

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in of the

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in 2001, as one of four women at the time of Germany's 76 opera houses, and held the post to 2011. Thomas Mohr became a

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and later

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, also an academic voice teacher and founder of a music festival on his agricultural estate.

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became a clarinetist and professor at the

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is a Russian-born Israeli

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, and conductor. Linus Roth became a violinist and academic teacher.

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Alumni

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