Teaching Activities

Ab Koster holds a professorship on the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg since he left the NDR Symphony Orchestra in 1990. More than 50 students from his horn studio have won positions over the years in Germany and around the world.

More information about the Hochschule für Musik and Theater Hamburg is available at http://www.hfmt-hamburg.de.

Since September 1998, Ab Koster is also a permanent guest lecturer at the King's Institute for Music in the Hague, Holland.

A new project called "The Music Page" was recently created on the Internet and offers online concerts with brass players. In the future, private lessons from Ab Koster will be possible per Web Cam from this site as well. For more information, visit http://www.themusicpage.com.

This Fall, Ab Koster will be a member of the jury for the international ARD competition.

 

Students of Ab Koster who have won a job in the past two years:

Filipe Abreu:


Mirjam Alards:


Johannes Birk:


Judith Hogan:

Takeshi Izumi:

Peter Schmidt:





Lizz Porter:


Guido Rooyakkers:

Bethany Kutz:



Sietske van Wieren:

2009 - Substitute contract, Solo Horn, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel
2010 - Contract, Solo Horn, Orchester des Staatstheaters Darmstadt

2009 - Substitute contract, Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg
2010 - Substitute contract, Orchester des Staatstheaters Nürnberg

2009 - Substitute contract, Trondheim Symfoniorkester, Norway
2010 - Substitute contract, Orchester des Staatstheaters Oldenburg

2009 - Contract, Solo Horn, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Herford

2009 - Substitute contract, Solo Horn, Jenaer Philharmonie

2008 - Substitute contract, Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin
2009 - Contract, Theater und Philharmonische Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck
2010 - Contract, Städtisches Opernhaus und Museumsorchester Frankfurt

2009 - Contract, Assistant Principal Horn, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, USA

2009 - Substitute contract, Konzerthausorchester Berlin
2010 - Substitute contract, Staatsorchester Hannover

2008 - Internship contract, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel
2008 - Contract, Tarzan Musical; Substitute Contract, Ich War Noch Niemals in New York Musical

2008 - Internship contract, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
2009 - Contract, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Recklinghausen