Highlights Music

Image: Sandra Lutz Hochreutener
Image: Sandra Lutz Hochreutener

    «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: 

      → 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.

        → Overview «Promotion of Talents and Careers»

          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.

            → Overview «Research Projects»

              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»