Prof. Dr. Elke Reichel

Elke Reichel studied church music in Dresden as well as music theory and instrumental pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts. She earned her doctorate at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts with a dissertation on dramaturgy and music in Mozart’s stage works.

From 2012 to 2023, she taught music theory, aural training, and musical analysis at the Dresden University of Music, primarily in teacher-training programs. At the same time, from 2014 to 2020, she was a lecturer in composition at the Department of Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Leipzig, where she led courses in arranging, composing, and improvisation for schools and music schools, among other subjects. Until 2022, she served as a music educator, ensemble director, and subject advisor for inclusion at the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory in Dresden, where she implemented collaborative projects at the intersection of schools, music schools, and the university.

Since 2019, Elke Reichel has been an artistic teacher in music theory at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar. There, she teaches, among other things, aural training and musical analysis, instrumentation, and arrangement for both artistic and pedagogical degree programs. In the master’s program in music theory, she provides individual instruction in the artistic major as well as group instruction in aural training, subject-specific didactics, and teaching practice. Elke Reichel is the spokesperson for the Music Education Working Group of the Society for Music Theory in cooperation with the Federal Congress on Music Education.