Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Thomas Offermann has been a guest lecturer at various music academies, including the Ecole Normale de Musique Paris, Manhattan School of Music New York, Yale University in New Haven, Eastman School of Music Rochester, University of the Arts Bremen and others.
He has given concerts, masterclasses, served on juries and given lectures at major guitar festivals around the world and at numerous international music academies. Thomas is a frequent jury member at international competitions.
As head of the guitar/harp department, Prof. Thomas Offermann is responsible for the so-called Bologna Process in the guitar department at the HMT Rostock.
Master classes at international guitar festivals
Upcoming lectures
Planned for 2025
_ Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest
_ J.J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia
_ Academy of Arts at Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Past lectures
2023/24
_ Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice
_ State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
_ Robert Schumann University of Music Düsseldorf
Previously
_ École normale supérieure, Paris
_ University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
_ Manhattan School of Music, New York
_ Yale University, New Haven, USA
_ Münster University of Music
_ Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, Berlin
_ Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Weimar
Vision
… I am passionate about teaching! My students and pupils benefit from my many years of experience as a concert guitarist.
The main focus of my work is to support young people in developing their artistic personalities under optimal artistic guidance.
Students gain comprehensive know-how to enable them to succeed as musicians and educators in today’s market…
Artists must perform!…
My students gain extensive concert experience: annual concerts at the Bonn Master Concerts Classical Guitar and in Berlin, TV portraits of individual students, live radio recordings and concerts with the North German Philharmonic Orchestra.
In my lessons, I focus on creating a creative and concentrated atmosphere. My working method is precise and analytical; music and technique must be understandable for everyone…
Competition can help – it must not paralyse!…
Special successes of students are often the result of synergy effects. I want to take advantage of this: the individual can expect openness and interest from his or her fellow students; they are not his or her opponents.
It is important to me that my students have a good relationship with each other and learn with and from each other in a friendly and critical partnership. Joint concert tours promote a sense of community that benefits everyone.
I want to teach my students to be aware of their playing and, if necessary, to overcome any fears that may be holding them back. It is not ‘metronomism’ or counting mistakes that determine how we work on music: music is life, it is an art form, not a mechanical process that is simply reeled off. Setting high standards for students must always go hand in hand with teaching them how to achieve those standards …
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