Post by Jason Thorpe Buchanan

Dear friends and colleagues, as I approach three years living here in Germany and teaching at the Hybrid Music Lab, Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, I’m excited to share that I have accepted a new position as Professor für Komposition mit digitalen Medien at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg in Bavaria. I will be leading our new Masters program in "Komposition mit digitalen Medien", as well as the HfM Würzburg’s Studio for experimentelle elektronische Musik ('eem'), founded in the 1970s and newly rebuilt with support from the “Hightech-Agenda Bayern”. It is bittersweet to be leaving my excellent colleagues and students here in Dresden, but I will continue teaching at the HfM Dresden through the end of this calendar year while Julio Zúñiga, Christoph Mann, and I complete our "Musik und Digitalität" project in the Hybrid Music Lab, filling in for our fantastic director Stefan Prins while he is off doing composerly things this semester. The HfM Würzburg will be accepting applications to the first cohort of our new Masters program in Komposition mit digitalen Medien until March 15 (to begin studies in October 2026). Seminars and lessons will be held in our brand new studios, with many excellent projects and developments already being planned alongside the incoming director of our Ensemble Neue Musik (who will be announced soon)! If you know anyone who may be interested in applying to our new Masters program, please put them in touch with me directly. Interviews with myself and my new colleagues Prof. Andreas Dohmen and Hannes Brugger will take place in Würzburg, May 2026.