Teaching
Teaching

Teaching

Seminar on Piano Sonatas

I am currently teaching a musicology seminar at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, focusing on piano sonatas of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the works are considered in their particular aesthetical and genre-historical contexts, the primary approach is analytic, and we are examining the various conceptions of musical form and cyclic construction as seen in the music.

The start of the semester has been auspicious, with student presentations on works by Franz Liszt and Joachim Raff, besides sonatas by Josef Rheinberger, Edvard Grieg, Ethel Smyth, and Felix Draeseke. As the journey continues, we will delve into music by Peter Tchaikovsky, Mykola Lysenko, Leoš Janáček, Cécile Chaminade, Alexander Scriabin, Zara Levina, Béla Bartók, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Viktor Ullmann, and others. Moreover, we will have two guest appearances by pianists Kyra Steckeweh and Severin von Eckardstein who will introduce and perform sonatas by Dora Pejačević and Nikolai Medtner. I am looking forward!

 

Workshop: Creating OER for Music

On the occasion of the current International Open Access Week, I take the opportunity to acknowledge my conviction to publishing and providing my research and educational materials online and free of charges. In this context, I am glad to announce that I will be conducting an online workshop for the Netzwerk 4.0 der Musikhochschulen (in German language) on designing open educational resources and tutorials using the platform Open Music Academy. If you are teaching at a conservatory or music university, feel free to join the webinar! Please follow this link for more information and registration.

» Online workshop on creating OER for music content
» Thursday, 7 November 2024, 10–12 am

Teaching position in Dresden

This week I will begin teaching as a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. For the coming academic year, I will lecture in music theory, aural skills, and music analysis in the artistic bachelor, school music, and composition programmes. Thankful for this opportunity, I look forward to a fruitful exchange with students and colleagues at the Zentrum für Musiktheorie!

Music Theory Teaching with Digital Tools

My article »The Digital Music Theory Classroom: Considerations for Technology-Based Teaching at Music Universities« has now been published in the ZGMTH, the journal of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie. It outlines a concept for teaching music theory to undergraduate or graduate students based on the application of digital media, online platforms, and collaborative tools and documents. Two different strategies of realisation are suggested, varying with regard to contact time and course organisation: a blended learning approach and a combined face-to-face and flipped classroom scheme, both comprising a mixture of on-site instruction, remote teaching, and asynchronous e-learning units.

Preparatory Workshop in Music Theory

I will be offering a preparatory workshop soon again for music theory entrance exams at music universities in North Rhine Westphalia, organised by Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband NRW. Please notify your students who consider an application in Cologne, Detmold, Düsseldorf, Essen, or Münster!

» Thursday and Friday, 16–17 May, 2024 | 3–7 pm
» online via Zoom | participation fee: EUR 65
» click here for the registration form