Speakers
Lily E. Hirsch
Lily E. Hirsch is the author of A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League (2010); Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (2012); Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California (2019); Weird Al: Seriously (2020); Can’t Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono (2023); and, as co-editor, Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture (2014), winner of the American Musicological Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award.
Tina Frühauf
Tina Frühauf is Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and serves on the doctoral faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the Executive Director of Répertoire Internationale de Littérature Musicale. The study of Jewish music in modernity has been Dr. Frühauf’s primary research focus for two decades, culminating in monographs such as Orgel und Orgelmusik in deutsch-jüdischer Kultur and Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989. Her most recent scholarly work focuses on the historiography of music scholarship and migration, examining the mass dislocation of peoples in the 20th century and the conditions of globalization, genocide, exile, and minority experience as well as musicology and coloniality.
Albrecht Dümling
Albrecht Dümling is a musicologist and music critic. After completing his doctorate on Arnold Schoenberg and Stefan George, he published the first comprehensive book on Bertolt Brecht’s collaboration with composers. For several years he was a music critic for Der Tagesspiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His exhibition on Nazi music policies, Degenerate Music: A Critical Reconstruction, travelled to venues all over the world, including London, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Seville and Tel Aviv. Dümling was also Project Consultant for the DECCA CD series Entartete Musik. He is the chair of the society musica reanimata, and was the first recipient of the European Cultural Prize KAIROS.
Christina Richter-Ibanes
Christina Richter-Ibáñez is Professor of Musicology with a focus on performance studies, contemporary and popular music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. After completing her doctorate in Stuttgart with the thesis “Mauricio Kagel’s Buenos Aires (1946-1957). Kulturpolitik – Künstlernetzwerk – Kompositionen” (published by transcript 2014), she worked at universities in Tübingen and Salzburg. She took also part in the Balzan Research Project Towards a Global History of Music in 2016/17. From 2018 to 2023, she researched translation strategies in popular music in a postdoc project at the University of Tübingen. Her publications focus on contemporary music theater and voice, Mauricio Kagel, German musicians in Latin America, and the history of musicology.
Christina Richter-Ibanes
Christina Richter-Ibáñez is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in musicology at the University of Tübingen. She received her PhD from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart in 2013, with a dissertation on the young Mauricio Kagel in Buenos Aires (1946-1957). She was part of the Balzan Research Project Towards a Global History of Music, directed by Reinhard Strohm, and worked as a senior scientist at Paris Lodron University in Salzburg on music and migration. Her publications focus on contemporary music theater and voice, Mauricio Kagel, German musicians in Latin America, and the history of musicology.
Michal Ščepán
Michal Ščepán studied in the years 2008-2013 at the Department of Musicology of Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2013 he has been working at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is engaged in studying the life and work of Slovak composers, as well as in research on the development of musical culture and musical institutions in the 20th century in Slovakia. His work activities also include examination of biographies devoted to musicians persecuted under the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes.
Daniella Fugellie
Daniela Fugellie is Assistant Professor and Director of the Music Institute of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile. She holds a PhD in musicology from the University of the Arts in Berlin. Before moving to Chile, she was researcher and lecturer at the University of the Arts in Berlin and with “Transcultural Music Studies” in Weimar. Her main research topics are Latin American art music of the 20th and 21st centuries and the musical transfers between Latin America and Europe. She is author of the book “Musiker unserer Zeit”. Internationale Avantgarde, Migration und Wiener Schule in Südamerika (Munich: text +kritik 2018).
Kieko Kamitake
Kieko Kamitake is currently a research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, and is also a co-research fellow of Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Her current principal fields of research are the history of art patronage of Russian Old Believers, particularly their private opera theaters from the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century.
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson is a musicologist and lecturer. Born in Reykjavík, he has published widely on music history both in Icelandic and English. His most recent monograph, Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, was published by Indiana University Press in 2019 and was listed as one of that year’s best books on music by Alex Ross of The New Yorker.
Ingólfsson is currently writing a book about the Jewish musicians who fled Germany and Austria to Iceland in the 1930s and made a significant and lasting contribution to music there.
Gerold Gruber
Gerold Gruber studied musicology and art history at the University of Vienna as well as vocal performance at the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 1984 he has been a member of the Institute for Musicology and Interpretation Research at the mdw. His work focuses on Austrian music of the 18th–21st century, methods of musical analysis and music by ostracized composers. Gruber initiated the Critical Edition of the Complete Writings by Arnold Schönberg. In 2006 he founded the exil.arte society which became one of the main research centers at the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2016 (including archive and exhibition space). During the last six years Exilarte received more than 25 musical estates and has started to collaborate with major music publishing houses.
