Teaching & Lectures

___Teaching areas

Composition

Music theater writing

Film Scoring

Music psychology

Music therapy

Sound research

 

___Research Interests

Creative Process

Problem solving in music creation

Musical theater creation and composition as a tool of diagnosis and therapeutic intervention

 

___Teaching

Sept. 2010 -2014

Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum at the University of Augsburg

Lecturer in: Musical theatre composition/writing, film scoring
Lecturer in: „Music therapy: creative design“ at the department for elementary music pedagogy

July 2010 – 2014

Campus Naturalis 

Lecturer in music theory, sound research, music psychology and music therapy at the department for music therapy

 

 

___Workshops & guest lectures & congress speeches…

July 10 , 2014 Round Table: Play it again! Symposium on musical composition process in music therapy.
World Congress of Music Therapy 2014
March 4, 2012 University of Mageburg 
9th Magdeburer day of education: How music moves the brain Conference
Lecture: „Thinking musically – interdisciplinary sound work in schools
Dec. 8, 2011 Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum at the University of Augsburg
Presentation of compositions and sound research in the series „Composer and Performer“, panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Tonius Timmermann and Prof. Julius Berger
Nov. 25, 2011 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department for Theatre Studies, Cultures of Sound – Conference for interdisciplinary research center for „Sound and Movement“, Head of the department: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schläder
Lecture: „More than just a sound – effects of sound and modern sound research“,
June 17, 2011 Media Academy Stuttgart
Guest Lecture: „ Inside the music“
April 14, 2011 Hospital Harlaching
Department for Neurological Early Rehabilitation, Munich, Germany
Workshop: „Introduction into the music therapy in the neurological early rehabilitation
April 12, 2011 BMW Group, Research and Innovation Center (FIZ),
Munich, Germany, Department for vehicle acoustics development
Lecture „What sounds can tell us „Information content and emotion in auditory experience
March 11, 2011 Hospital Harlaching
Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and psychotherapy
Lecture „Finding the inner sound of the other“ (Den Klang des anderen finden)
May 27, 2010 BMW Group, Research and Innovation Center (FIZ)
Munich, Germany, Department for vehicle acoustics development
Lecture „Function, effect and use of music in films
July 15, 2010 University of Augsburg
Lecture „How composers think and work
July 9, 2010 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department for Medical Psychology
Lecture: „Finding the sound of the other
February 12, 2010 Conference of research in music therapy 
Talk „Introduction to Anatomy of Rhythm
Nov. 20, 2009 University of Oldenburg
Department of music: „Composers-Colloquium
June 13, 2009 Herrenhaus Edenkoben
Lecturer as Fellowship of the Herrenhaus „Psychology of a film score
May 30, 2009 Herrenhaus Edenkoben
Public presentation of the development and scenes from the opera „El Canguro“ (Libretto: Cynthia Lewis Ferrell)
Aug. 29, Sept. 12, 2009 afk. aus- und fortbildungskanäle für radio und fernsehen
Workshop „Film scoring“
Aug. 3, 2009 afk. aus- und fortbildungskanäle für radio und fernsehen,
Workshop discussion film scoring
May 9/10, 2007 The Film and Television University „Konrad Wolf“ (HFF)
Guest lecturer: „Orchestration and composing for films“
May 28, 2007 afk. aus- und fortbildungskanäle für radio und fernsehen, München
Workshop: „Function, effect and use of music in films
April 25/27, 2007 Bayerische Akademie für Fernsehen (BAF), Munich, Germany
Guest lecturer: „Psychology of a film score
July 30 – Aug. 7, 2005 GRAMMY Camp, Los Angeles,
Counselor at the Grammy Camp in film scoring & arrangement
2003 and 2004 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Guest lecture: „Psychology of a film score
Since 2002 Invitations to workshops and lectures at schools around Germany
2001 Music Support Group GmbH,
Lecturer in: music theory, composition and film scoring