Lectures in Musicology
Louis Lindenborn
Lecturer of Arts Management
Lecturer in the history of vocal art
Hochschulzentrum am Horn
Culture & Foundation Manager · PhD Candidate · Lecturer · Baritone & Organist: Alongside his managerial duties, Louis Lindenborn has been active for many years as a freelance singer, including in the opera chorus at the Staatstheater Kassel, DNT Weimar and Theater Erfurt, as well as performing as a soloist in church music. He also performs regularly as an organist.
- Since 2025 Head of Partnerships & Development
- Sendehalle Weimar Foundation
- Since 2025 PhD candidate in Arts Management
- ‘Private Funding as a Key Resource for Sustainable Cultural Promotion in Times of Volatile Public Funding: Challenges, Potential and Strategies of Small and Medium-Sized Cultural Foundations’ (working title) | Supervisor: Prof. Dr Steffen Höhne
- University of Music Weimar · FSU Jena
- Since 2025 Lecturer in the History of Vocal Art
- University of Music Weimar · Department of Vocal Studies and Theatre
- Since 2024 Lecturer in Arts Management
- Subjects: Cultural Financing · Professional Foundations for Instrumentalists and Singers
- University of Music Weimar · Arts Management programme
- Since 2020 Sole trader LL | Culture · Foundations · Production · Consultancy2019–2025 Master’s degree in Musicology · Specialisation in Arts Management
- University of Music Weimar · FSU Jena
- 2024–2025 Head of Development · Steering Committee Member
- 2022–2024 Development & Relations Manager
- HIDALGO gGmbH · Munich
- 2021–2022 Programme PlannerFestspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gGmbH · Schwerin
- 2015–2019 Various professional roles, including at the Rheingau Music Festival, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Staatstheater Kassel and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar
Musical training
- Graduate of the ‘Netzwerk Gesangspädagogik’
- Studio Gudrun Bär · Weimar
- Since 2014 private vocal training
- Gudrun Bär · Uwe Schenker-Primus · Prof. Elisabeth Scholl · Norico Kimura, among others
- 2013–2018 organ lessons
- University of Music Weimar/private (class of Prof. Matthias Dreißig) · Royal College of Organists, London
- 2000–2018 piano lessons
Publications
- Lindenborn, Louis (2025). Key resources for sustainable cultural funding: Private funding and cultural education in times of volatile public funding in Germany. In: Dirk Schütz (ed.), Kooperationen (Kultur Management Network magazine, No. 183, pp. 11–20). Weimar.
- Lindenborn, Louis (2019). Franz Liszt’s ‘Blume und Duft’ and its song versions: contextualisation, source analysis and first edition of the early version with critical commentary. In: Christiane Wiesenfeldt (ed.), Liszt Sources (Liszt Yearbook, Vol. 3, pp. 81–98). Kassel: Merseburger.
Lecturers in Arts Management
Louis Lindenborn
Lecturer of Arts Management
Lecturer in the history of vocal art
Hochschulzentrum am Horn
Culture & Foundation Manager · PhD Candidate · Lecturer · Baritone & Organist: Alongside his managerial duties, Louis Lindenborn has been active for many years as a freelance singer, including in the opera chorus at the Staatstheater Kassel, DNT Weimar and Theater Erfurt, as well as performing as a soloist in church music. He also performs regularly as an organist.
- Since 2025 Head of Partnerships & Development
- Sendehalle Weimar Foundation
- Since 2025 PhD candidate in Arts Management
- ‘Private Funding as a Key Resource for Sustainable Cultural Promotion in Times of Volatile Public Funding: Challenges, Potential and Strategies of Small and Medium-Sized Cultural Foundations’ (working title) | Supervisor: Prof. Dr Steffen Höhne
- University of Music Weimar · FSU Jena
- Since 2025 Lecturer in the History of Vocal Art
- University of Music Weimar · Department of Vocal Studies and Theatre
- Since 2024 Lecturer in Arts Management
- Subjects: Cultural Financing · Professional Foundations for Instrumentalists and Singers
- University of Music Weimar · Arts Management programme
- Since 2020 Sole trader LL | Culture · Foundations · Production · Consultancy2019–2025 Master’s degree in Musicology · Specialisation in Arts Management
- University of Music Weimar · FSU Jena
- 2024–2025 Head of Development · Steering Committee Member
- 2022–2024 Development & Relations Manager
- HIDALGO gGmbH · Munich
- 2021–2022 Programme PlannerFestspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gGmbH · Schwerin
- 2015–2019 Various professional roles, including at the Rheingau Music Festival, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Staatstheater Kassel and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar
Musical training
- Graduate of the ‘Netzwerk Gesangspädagogik’
- Studio Gudrun Bär · Weimar
- Since 2014 private vocal training
- Gudrun Bär · Uwe Schenker-Primus · Prof. Elisabeth Scholl · Norico Kimura, among others
- 2013–2018 organ lessons
- University of Music Weimar/private (class of Prof. Matthias Dreißig) · Royal College of Organists, London
- 2000–2018 piano lessons
Publications
- Lindenborn, Louis (2025). Key resources for sustainable cultural funding: Private funding and cultural education in times of volatile public funding in Germany. In: Dirk Schütz (ed.), Kooperationen (Kultur Management Network magazine, No. 183, pp. 11–20). Weimar.
- Lindenborn, Louis (2019). Franz Liszt’s ‘Blume und Duft’ and its song versions: contextualisation, source analysis and first edition of the early version with critical commentary. In: Christiane Wiesenfeldt (ed.), Liszt Sources (Liszt Yearbook, Vol. 3, pp. 81–98). Kassel: Merseburger.
Lecturers in Music Theory
Louis Lindenborn
Lecturer of Arts Management
Lecturer in the history of vocal art
Hochschulzentrum am Horn
Culture & Foundation Manager · PhD Candidate · Lecturer · Baritone & Organist: Alongside his managerial duties, Louis Lindenborn has been active for many years as a freelance singer, including in the opera chorus at the Staatstheater Kassel, DNT Weimar and Theater Erfurt, as well as performing as a soloist in church music. He also performs regularly as an organist.
- Since 2025 Head of Partnerships & Development
- Sendehalle Weimar Foundation
- Since 2025 PhD candidate in Arts Management
- ‘Private Funding as a Key Resource for Sustainable Cultural Promotion in Times of Volatile Public Funding: Challenges, Potential and Strategies of Small and Medium-Sized Cultural Foundations’ (working title) | Supervisor: Prof. Dr Steffen Höhne
- University of Music Weimar · FSU Jena
- Since 2025 Lecturer in the History of Vocal Art
- University of Music Weimar · Department of Vocal Studies and Theatre
- Since 2024 Lecturer in Arts Management
- Subjects: Cultural Financing · Professional Foundations for Instrumentalists and Singers
- University of Music Weimar · Arts Management programme
- Since 2020 Sole trader LL | Culture · Foundations · Production · Consultancy2019–2025 Master’s degree in Musicology · Specialisation in Arts Management
- University of Music Weimar · FSU Jena
- 2024–2025 Head of Development · Steering Committee Member
- 2022–2024 Development & Relations Manager
- HIDALGO gGmbH · Munich
- 2021–2022 Programme PlannerFestspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gGmbH · Schwerin
- 2015–2019 Various professional roles, including at the Rheingau Music Festival, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Staatstheater Kassel and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar
Musical training
- Graduate of the ‘Netzwerk Gesangspädagogik’
- Studio Gudrun Bär · Weimar
- Since 2014 private vocal training
- Gudrun Bär · Uwe Schenker-Primus · Prof. Elisabeth Scholl · Norico Kimura, among others
- 2013–2018 organ lessons
- University of Music Weimar/private (class of Prof. Matthias Dreißig) · Royal College of Organists, London
- 2000–2018 piano lessons
Publications
- Lindenborn, Louis (2025). Key resources for sustainable cultural funding: Private funding and cultural education in times of volatile public funding in Germany. In: Dirk Schütz (ed.), Kooperationen (Kultur Management Network magazine, No. 183, pp. 11–20). Weimar.
- Lindenborn, Louis (2019). Franz Liszt’s ‘Blume und Duft’ and its song versions: contextualisation, source analysis and first edition of the early version with critical commentary. In: Christiane Wiesenfeldt (ed.), Liszt Sources (Liszt Yearbook, Vol. 3, pp. 81–98). Kassel: Merseburger.

