NEUE WÄNDE
– GROUPS 2026

Description: We are the choir of the medical faculty – a mixed choir of approximately 70 singers from diverse backgrounds who sing together with great joy. Our repertoire includes well-known pop and rock songs, with all arrangements written by ourselves. We are delighted to present our interpretations at Neue Wände 2026, together and in dialogue with the Performance Team Münster, and wish you much enjoyment listening and

Description: CloseUp – Kammermusical Münster The chamber musical ensemble CloseUp was founded in 2023 by Kathi Laukemper. The goal is to bring culture to places with low cultural density, creating mobile, spatially flexible productions that introduce musical theatre literature at diverse venues. And of course also where there is already a lot of culture but even more interest. Chamber musicals are ideal for this! With their minimalist approach and a small ensemble size, they are flexibly adaptable to stages of any size and technical equipment.

Description: The ensemble came together for the bachelor’s final examination of Katharina Adam in her major subject Performance, which will take place on 10 July at 6:00 pm at the Pumpenhaus in Münster (free entrance). Improvisation and notation meet, improvisation and guided movement, both in dance and in voice: everything seeks an expression that reflects a primal state, a mood, a feeling, communicating honestly and clearly,

Description: Galaxy Brass: Up to 14 music-enthusiastic and ambitious brass players from the Institute of Music Education, the University of Music, and other faculties of the university form this ensemble. Galaxy Brass accompanies events at the University of Münster and performs both in Germany and abroad. In 2005, the ensemble won the brass competition for the Münsterland region organized by German Brass, and in 2024 it celebrated its 30th anniversary.

Description: The group Hanna and the Shots consists of students from the Institute for Music Education Münster. Hanna Schots is a singer-songwriter originally from Nordhorn, but has been living in Münster for 4½ years. She has been writing her own songs in the Pop and Soul genre for several years, which are now being brought to the stage with a band. She is accompanied by a fantastic band line-up: Mert Özyurt on electric guitar,

Description: Our music is a combining of musical worlds! Damien is classically trained musician and Richard’s experience is primarily through rock and pop jam sessions and ensembles. Through collaboration we develop new material through our differences, creating unique outcomes! This type of collaboration is a renewable source of creativity, where the comfort and discomfort of each other’s practice challenge our musicianship.

Description: Alternative rock from Münster about the quiet moments and the loud rest: The singer-songwriter, together with her band (consisting of Felix Vol, Manuel Blase and Bean Mure), combines powerful sounds with catchy melodies that stay with you. Driven by energetic guitars, groovy basslines and dynamic drums, a tapestry of sound emerges that creates the ideal framework for their stories. In their songs, they tell of experiences that touch, captivate and provoke thought – with lyrics about quiet and loud thoughts, big feelings and the spaces in between.

Description: Writing songs and singing them on stages is Pauli’s favourite activity. Turning feelings outward that are almost impossible to describe without music. Songwriting has been her creative expression and refuge for over a decade. Songs are created in her own room that personally and honestly tell what she has experienced and feels. Sometimes Pauli also creates characters that are fictional yet closely connected to her own stories.

Description: We are the university group for Ballet and Lyrical Dance at the University of Münster. Our choreographies combine classical ballet technique with modern and lyrical elements. We dance the stories that songs tell and the feelings they evoke in us. Since 2017, dancers with the most diverse dance and life stories have grown together in our team. Ruki is a singer and also studies Philosophy and Education at the University of Münster.

Description: For 50 years now, the Studierendenorchester Münster (SOM) has shaped the cultural life of the university and the city of Münster. What began as a student initiative has developed over five decades into an integral part of Münster’s cultural landscape: from great symphonic works and solo concertos to contemporary compositions and projects at the intersections of music, theatre, dance and film. Around 90 musicians – predominantly students of the University of Münster, complemented by members of the Academy of Music and working professionals – develop an ambitious programme each semester, traditionally presented in two end-of-semester concerts.

Description: Creating a space that is vulnerable, honest and brave. Taily stands with the content of their music for feeling these sensations and creating room for community and the power of togetherness. How can we build a community while the world around us keeps getting faster, louder and more violent? What does human togetherness feel like nowadays? Can we be brave even when we are frustrated and afraid? All these questions and emotional states are reflected in Taily’s English pop, expanded with experimental sounds.

Description: We're the Isotopes, a student band originating from Enschede. All of our members are engineering students at the University of Twente, and we love to make music together in our free time! We're mainly a high-energy party band, usually playing for student parties and galas, but we also perform outside of the university scene. We've played for a charity event in The Hague, as even took the stage on the Dam in Amsterdam!

Description: The Treff.Ensemble is an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional sound body, initiated at the Musikhochschule Münster by Prof. Isabelle Heiss and Annalouise Falk. Students of various instrumental and vocal subjects, from the Elementare Musik performance class, as well as artists from other music academies and the Kunstakademie Münster work in an open, collective practice. Between classical music, pop, improvisation and performance, new concert formats emerge without a conductor – process-oriented and genre-crossing.

Description: Trio Fatale is a young, passionate and experimental ensemble with the extraordinary instrumentation of piano, soprano and trumpet. The ensemble’s programmes move between tradition and innovation: works from different eras are performed, with a particular focus on compositions by FLINTA+ composers as well as rarely performed repertoire, in order to give these works greater visibility. Trio Fatale sees itself not merely as a trio, but as an ensemble of equals in which every voice plays a supporting role.

Description: Troubadix Erben is the young parish choir of the KSHG in Münster. Currently, around 40 singers from various disciplines and from outside the university sing with us. Each semester, the choir dedicates itself to a new project: in winter, the focus tends to be on classical and Christmas programmes, while in summer it’s usually modern pop music. This varied mix characterises the repertoire of Troubadix Erben. Among the highlights of 2025 were the concert “Dornwald” in cooperation with the City Advent as well as the grand Roy Bianco & Co.

Description: We are Weitblick Münster e.V., a university group from Münster founded in 2008. We volunteer in the name of educational equity and want to make access to education fairer globally and locally. Domestically, the focus is on non-material support, where we run our own projects such as the mentoring and tutoring programme. Abroad, we support our partner organisations in Benin, Honduras, Madagascar and Cambodia financially.