Musicology at the HfMT

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Beatrix Borchard is a musicologist and author specializing in music and gender. She founded the research platform Music and Gender on the Internet (MUGI) at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, where she taught as a professor of historical musicology from 2002 to 2016. She previously worked at the Berlin University of the Arts, in Detmold/Paderborn and for the Goethe-Institut, focusing on China, Romania and Portugal.

Her research questions traditional representations of music history and develops innovative mediation formats. She has initiated numerous artistic-scientific projects on topics such as "Music as a force for survival" and "Music City Hamburg" and regularly organizes salons and the lecture series "Music and Gender". The naming of the Fanny Hensel Hall at the HfMT goes back to her initiative, and she also played a leading role in the establishment of the Dr. sc. mus. doctoral program.

A central area of her research is European cultural mediation through music, with a particular focus on Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Clara Schumann and Fanny Hensel. She is the editor of "Viardot-Garcia-Studien" and "Brahms-Studien" and curator of exhibitions, including the "Rooms for Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn" in the Composers' Quarter in Hamburg and the permanent exhibition on Clara and Robert Schumann in the Schumann House in Leipzig.

In addition to numerous academic publications, she also produces musical portraits and documentary films, including "Die Frau auf dem Geldschein" (Clara Schumann, ARD/NDR 1996) and "Komponistinnen - eine filmische Spurensuche" (2018). She has also worked on several films about important female musicians, including Fanny Hensel, Lili Boulanger and Dora Pejačević.

Email address: beatrix.borchard@hfmt-hamburg.de
Personal website: https://b-bor.de/

Reinhard Flender (born 1953) is a composer, cultural scientist and cultural manager. He studied piano, composition and musicology in Hamburg, Münster and Jerusalem. In 1983, he completed his doctorate at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Hamburg under Prof. Constantin Floros and habilitated in 1994. Flender has been teaching at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg since 1983. In 1999, he founded the Institute for Cultural Innovation Research IkI, which he has headed ever since. In 2011, he took over the professorship for cultural studies at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg, funded by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, and was appointed head of the Institute for Cultural and Media Management in 2015. Further information can be found at: www.reinhardflender.de

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hanns-Werner Heister (born 1946 in Plochingen am Neckar). 1992 to 1998 professor at the Dresden University of Music, 1998/99 to 2011 at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. Research and publications on: Methodology of musicology; aesthetics, sociology, anthropology and history of music; political, popular and new music, music in fascism, resistance and exile; music theater aesthetics and history; media and institutions of music culture; music and: Mathematics, cybernetics, fuzzy logic, psychoanalysis, literature, visual arts; urban and garden culture.

Editor of the series Zwischen/Töne. Musik und andere Künste (from 1995) and Musik/Gesellschaft/Geschichte (from 2005); co-editor of, among others: Komponisten der Gegenwart (since 1992), 2024 ca. 12,000 p.; initiator and co-editor of Musik und. Eine Schriftenreihe der Hochschule für Music and Drama Hamburg, 3 vols. 1999-2000, Neue Folge, 11 vols. 2001-2011.

Books including: Das Konzert. Theorie einer Kulturform (1983); Jazz (1983); Vom allgemeingültigen Neuen. Analysen engagierter Musik (2006); Hintergrund Klangkunst. A Contribution to Acoustic Ecology (2010); Musical Process and Fuzzy Logic. Dialectics of artistic ideas, realizations and cognitions, 2021; Music and Fuzzy Logic. The Dialectics of Idea and Realizations in the Work Process (2021); Stadt Grün Spiel Kunst. Plants as beauty and utility in public space (2023). Excerpt www.Hanns-Werner-Heister.de.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochstein (born 1950) studied school music, theory/composition, piano and organ in Detmold and musicology in Hamburg. Doctorate in 1981 under Hans Joachim Marx. Appointed in 1976 as the first full-time teacher of practical school piano playing in Germany at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, where he later also taught musicology. Head of the Institute for School Music and Dean of Academic Pedagogical Subjects until his retirement in 2015; continued to teach until 2018. Publications on music from the 17th to 19th centuries, including numerous editions. Co-editor of a four-volume history of church music (2011-2014) and editor of two volumes Geistliche Vokalmusik des Barock (2019). Latest publication: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der unter dem Namen von Johann Adolf Hasse verbreiteten Instrumentalkompositionen (2024).