I have lectured at universities in Germany, the UK, Switzerland and Austria and I have also delivered workshops to music practitioners, music teachers and arts organisations who want to develop community music practice. From December 2016 until August 2021 I worked as a lecturer at the department of music education for the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on the first MA in inclusive music education/community music in Germany, which I co-wrote. Since October 2019 I am responsible for a module of the MA cultural diversity in music education at the University Hildesheim. In September 2021 I was appointed professor for aesthetic practice with music and media at the University of Applied Sciences Landshut, in March 2022 I was appointed professor of music in social work / community music at University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.
I have a BA Performing Arts/Community Arts and a MSc in Arts and Cultural Management and a PhD in music education (Thesis: The development of community music in Munich), for which I received a PhD scholarship by the Bavarian State Ministry of Culture and Education. In November 2019 I received the Bavarian Culture Award (Kulturpreis Bayern) for my PhD thesis.
I am an associate member of the International Centre for Community Music and a member of the International Society of Music Education. Since 2018 I am an editorial board member for the International Journal of Community Music. In 2020 I co-founded the German national Community Music Netzwerk of which I am elected chair. Since 2021 I am a Commissioner of the Community Music Activity Commission (International Society of Music Education), and a Research Fellow of the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (Wilfrid Laurier University Canada).
I have a BA Performing Arts/Community Arts and a MSc in Arts and Cultural Management and a PhD in music education (Thesis: The development of community music in Munich), for which I received a PhD scholarship by the Bavarian State Ministry of Culture and Education. In November 2019 I received the Bavarian Culture Award (Kulturpreis Bayern) for my PhD thesis.
I am an associate member of the International Centre for Community Music and a member of the International Society of Music Education. Since 2018 I am an editorial board member for the International Journal of Community Music. In 2020 I co-founded the German national Community Music Netzwerk of which I am elected chair. Since 2021 I am a Commissioner of the Community Music Activity Commission (International Society of Music Education), and a Research Fellow of the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (Wilfrid Laurier University Canada).
I have worked with:
- Ashton-under-Lyne Art Gallery
- Aspire Trust
- Bronte Youth and Community Centre
- Bev Hayes Photography
- Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung Trossingen
- Chester University
- Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre
- Catalyst Performing Arts
- Creative Partnerships Merseyside
- Deutsche Bank-Direkt, Germany
- ICARUS Collective
- Department of Arts and Culture/City of Munich
- Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
- Hochschule Düsseldorf
- Katholische Stiftungshochschule München
- Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- Konzerthaus Dortmund
- Liverpool Personal Service Society (PSS)
- Liverpool Lighthouse
- Learn Direct
- Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Merseyside Dance Initiative
- Münchener Waisenhaus
- Münchener Philharmoniker
- National Football Museum Preston
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO)
- Sports Linxx Liverpool City Council
- Sure Start and Children's Centres in Liverpool
- TheaterSpielhaus München, Germany
- Universität Hildesheim
- University of Applied Sciences Munich
- Villa Stuck
- Züricher Hochschule der Künste und Züricher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
- Many nurseries, primary and secondary schools
July 2004: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, BA Hons Performing Arts / Community Arts
August 2005: British Kodaly Academy, Kodaly Sound Beginnings Course (Early Years Music)
October and November 2005: Jabadao, Developmental Movement Play Training
August 2006: Dalcroze Society, Dalcroze Summer School
August 2007: Dalcroze Society, Dalcroze Summer School
February 2008: Manchester Metropolitan University, MSc Arts and Cultural Management
March 2008 Bologna, Italy: 'Visioni di Futura' Conference on Theatre in Early Childhood
November 2008: Jabadao, Social and emotional learning through movement
September, October, November 2008: Dalcroze Society, Dalcroze Training Weekends
September and November 2009: Berlin, Germany: Jesper Juul / Family Lab Seminarleader Course
October 2013 - November 2018: PhD in music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Title: The development of Community Music in Munich. Supervised by Prof. DDDDr. Wolfgang Mastnak.