Maths Music Night

Every semester, the Maths Music Evening is the crowning finale and highlight of the lecture period.

The next Maths Music Evening will take place on Thursday 13 February 2025. It starts at 19:00 and doors open at 18:30 in S2|06 – 030.

If you would like to participate, you can register until 24 January 2024, information in the 'Participate' section.

The Maths Music Evening provides a stage for anyone who loves music, wants to experience the thrill of their own live performance, or even wants to present their own pieces of music.

Performances usually consist of a wide range of ensembles of bands and solo performances, vocal, piano, guitar or even harp performances.

There have also been dance productions and the genres represented cover the whole spectrum from classical to rock and pop. And it's not just mathematicians who are welcome here:

In past semesters, physicists, CE students and even people from outside the TU have contributed to or helped organise events.

If you or your band would like to perform at the MMA, please email us at with the following information

  • Full name/band name (as it will appear in the programme)
  • Names of band members (as listed in the programme)
  • Type of performance (e.g. big band/classical piano/…)
  • Title and composer (+ arrangement, if applicable, to be used as a reference)
  • Length of performance (maximum 12 minutes)
  • Required technical equipment (microphones, amplifiers, …) and what you bring with you
  • Restrictions on soundcheckl time

Please use an email address where we can easily contact you if we have any questions.

If you need a piano for your performance: A grand piano will again be provided.

On the day of the MMA there will be approximately 15 minute slots for each group to play and soundcheck from 14:00. Please leave the afternoon free. If you have any restrictions on when you can play in, please let us know directly so that we can take this into account when making the programme.

Also, the programme is usually very full and if there are many requests to play, we may ask you to shorten your playing time. You will be notified of this no later than shortly after the application deadline. So far we have always been able to offer a stage to everyone who contacted us before the deadline :)

We also take pictures, audio and video recordings at the MMA and want to publish them on download.mathebau.de. If you do not agree with this, please let us know in the email.

When mathematicians make music – funny, varied, atmospheric

The Maths Choir sang about the binomial distribution Maja at the Maths Music Evening at the end of February. Mathematicians making music is nothing new in our department. Once a semester they organise the Maths Music Evening (MMA) together. At the end of February, the castle's lecture hall was transformed into a top-class concert hall for almost three hours. An audience of 150 listened attentively to performances ranging from classical music to modern improvisation. Rüdiger Lich opened the evening with 'Die Liste' and, as always, led the audience through the programme with charm and eloquence.

The surprise of the evening was 'Die Heis(s)eren'. The five singers performed 'Have a little faith' a cappella to thunderous applause. It got even louder for Timo Prenzer, who can be described as the new discovery of the evening. The materials science student performed three songs by Bodo Wartke and was not allowed to leave the stage without an encore. In 'Meine neue Freundin' he told of his latest conquest, who fulfils all his dreams because she has a plastic surgeon for a father. There was also a lot of laughter in 'Yes, darling', in which a man describes how annoying his wife is and how he finally makes plans to behead her, but then doesn't.

A six-member women's choir impressed with 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' and Daniel Schluckebier showed off his skills on the grand piano with 'Jessie'. The Sunday Night Band tried their hand at 'Road Trippins' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unfortunately the lyrics weren't quite right as they'd only been rehearsing for four days. So they quickly followed it up with an improvised blues.

After the break the Y's Guys sang 'Ich hab dich relativ gern…' about a typical male problem: they can't say what they feel. Then they took the audience on a trip to Paris and could hardly contain their applause. Artur Rosenbusch is almost always part of the show. This time he improvised with Simon Benedikt on piano. Peter Rösch (electric guitar), Simon Benedikt (piano) and Artur Rosenbusch (guitar) also performed the song Hoppla. Rosenbusch certainly made his girlfriend's eyes sparkle afterwards. He had written the love song 'You're the best thing' for her and performed it on the big black piano just for her.

As always, the Maths Choir provided the crowning finale to the evening. The two dozen or so singers sang about the binomial distribution Maja and performed Powerfrau. One of their songs showed the breadth of the maths singers' repertoire. With 'Thy will be done' they sang a contemporary and not so easy gospel song. Again, the two encores were not to be missed. And with 'Don't worry' the choir sent their audience off into the night.

Despite the wonderful programme, one person was missing. Martin Bernasconi was absent for the first time. He handed in his Master's thesis the next day and was therefore unable to contribute to the programme.

The Maths Music Evening is an event of the Department of Mathematics and is organised by the student body. It is open to all students, staff and professors, including those from outside the Department of Mathematics.

All helpers and organisers, and of course the performers, work on a voluntary basis.

The organisers can be contacted by email at .