The University of Music and Theatre offers its students as well as its guests from all over the world a wide range of academies and competitions. For the academics of the "Mendelssohn-Orchesterakademie", the HMT Leipzig offers chamber music studies in addition to the highly qualified orchestral training of the Gewandhausorchester. The International Mendelssohn Academy Leipzig (IMAL) presents in a biennial change with the Organ orchestra master classes with well-known teachers. In addition, each year different collegiate-internal competitions take place at our university.