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Research Report 2023
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Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
Promotion of Talents and Careers
Cooperation and Internationality
External Funding
Awards
Reading Tips

«In addition to music physiology and music therapy, work at the Institute for Music Research (IMR) also focuses on twentieth-century Swiss music. In 2023, the IMR expanded its research and networked in diverse ways with other researchers in this field».

Prof. Dr. Dominik Sackmann, Head of the Institute for Music Research (IMR)

Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

2023 IMR highlights:

Jörn Peter Hiekel’s award-winning Helmut Lachenmann und seine Zeit Lilienthal: Laaber.
Lukas Näf and Dominik Sackmann’s co-authored paper appeared in the proceedings of the Annual Conference on Music Theory, whose 2019 edition was held at ZHdK: Von Übernotation und Unternotation.
Iris Eggenschwiler delivered a lecture at the very place where the “heroes” of her book are being studied: Beethoven und Haydn. Musik, Geschichte, Rezeption.
Horst Hildebrandt and his colleagues published further work on two of their long-standing research topics: Repeated Stage Exposure Reduces Music Performance Anxiety und Determining Factors for Compensatory Movements of the Left Arm and Shoulder in Violin Playing

→ Overview «Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact»

Promotion of Talents and Careers

The IMR’s appointment of Dr Vadym Rakochi (Kiev) will enable him to pursue his research (autumn 2022 – autumn 2024), which the war in his native Ukraine is forcing him to do abroad.

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Cooperation and Internationality

Diandra Russo: PhD scholarship at Aalborg University (Denmark) since October 2023.
Dominik Sackmann: Guest lectureship at the «Academia nazionala de Muzica Gheorghe Dyma» in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 27–30 November 2023.

→ Overview «Cooperation and Internationality»

External Funding

The IMR endeavours to acquire long-term external funding.

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Awards

Jörn Peter Hiekel’s Helmut Lachenmann und seine Zeit was voted «Book of the Year» by Opernwelt in October 2023.
Giulio Biddau received the «Best Practice Award» at Graz University of the Arts Doctoral Forum in June 2023.

Reading Tips

Hans-Christof Maier, Burkhard Kinzler and Lukas Näf: «Ein Programm zur Intonations- und Tempoanalyse bei freitonaler Musik am Beispiel von Weberns Symphonie op. 21»
Horst Hildebrandt et al.: «Music performance anxiety and audience presence. Their influence on the music students’ neuroendocrine response across time during a music performance»
Lukas Näf: «Burkhard Kinzler»

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