Almut Lustig

Almut Lustig studied orchestral percussion at the Hochschule für Musik,Theater und Medien in Hannover/Germany.

There she found the basis of her varied musical working.

While studying she had first experiences with several Orchestras (like Orchester from Hessischer Rundfunks, NDR Hannover and DSO Berlin), contempory music (for exemple with Karlheinz Stockhausen), theatre music (Staatstheater Hannover, Schaubühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Hebbeltheater Berlin) and experimental music (ensemble „a rose is“).

She won several prices and is playing concerts worldwide with different ensembles and as a soloist.

Since moving to Berlin 2005 she is working with different choreographers and directors as instrumentalist and composer which brought her to numerous festivals for dance and theatre.

As a member of several bands she is also working in the context of popularmusic.

From 2003 – 2017 she was teaching as assistent professor at the Hochschule für Musik,Theater und Medien in Hannover. Since 2013 Almut Lustig is assistent professor at the UDK Berlin.