Prof. Dr. Stefan Drees

  • Studies in instrumental pedagogy at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, 1992: certification as a music teacher in violin
  • 1997 PhD with "summa cum laude," topic: "Architecture and Fragment: Studies in the Late Compositions of Luigi Nono"
  • 1998–2003: research associate with the research project "Musik in Emigration 1933-1945: the East Coast of the US" at the Folkwang Hochschule
  • Beginning in 1998: lecturer in musicology at the Folkwang Hochschule
  • 2009: Habilitation at the Rostock University of Music and Drama on the topic "Speaking Instruments: on the History of the Instrumental Recitative"
  • Beginning in 2009: visiting professorships at the institutes of musicology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Gießen University, Heidelberg University, guest professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts
  • Additional teaching activities at Vienna University and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  • Member, editorial boards, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and Tonkunst
  • Cofounder and coeditor of the review Seiltanz
  • Special awards from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for book projects on the composer Olga Neuwirth, on bodily concepts in music after 1950, and on Hans-Joachim Hespos
  • Since 2016: professor of musicology at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
  • Research foci: music of the 20th and 21st centuries, music and media, film music, music theater, performance, history of violin music

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