Interdisciplinary research projects
Dr Anna Wolf is the new professor for music education in digital contexts
Digitalisation is entering all areas of life and requires new concepts - also in music education. Funded by the Thuringian Ministry of Science, the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar has appointed Dr Anna Wolf as a new professor for music education in digital contexts. She will take up her post at the Department of Music Education and Church Music from October 2023.
"It is very gratifying that with Prof. Dr. Anna Wolf we have been able to recruit a versatile scientist and expert for the new teaching area 'Music Education in Digital Contexts'. She will not only enrich the department, but will be effective for the entire university," says the director of the Department of Music Education and Church Music, Prof. Gero Schmidt-Oberländer.
"I am looking forward to Weimar because here I can initiate interdisciplinary research projects that are mutually related to music education research and musical practice and education," says the newly appointed professor.
"I particularly want to help shape projects between music education, musicology and the artistic subjects. I see it as an important question for the world of music to discuss how digital cultural practices already shape what we do and what role they can and should play for music in the future - and then to develop and use such digital tools and methods."
Anna Wolf completed her Bachelor's degree in Musicology at the University of Bremen and then went to Goldsmiths, University of London, for her Master's degree in Music, Mind and Brain. From 2011 to 2018 she worked at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTM), where she completed her doctorate in 2015 with the title "Es hört doch jeder nur was er versteht. Construction of a competence-based assessment for ear training".
Since 2016, she also worked as a research assistant for teaching at the University of Hamburg, where she completed the teaching certificate "Good teaching practice" in 2019. In 2021, she returned to HMTM Hannover, this time as a consultant to the President, where she worked on the preparation of the Masterplan 2030 and the University Development Plan, among other things.
Her research focuses on the assessment of musical skills, especially various listening skills such as analytical listening or sound perception, which are formed before and during studies.
In addition to these very specialised skills, she conducts research on the perception and impact of music in different contexts, including differently crafted interpretations, productions and performance practices. Other co-publications on neuromyths in music education, translations of the GoldMSI test procedure and singing in music lessons round off her portfolio.
The Thuringian Ministry of Science wants to anchor the development and application of digital technologies and procedures even more firmly at Thuringian universities. To this end, as part of the "PROF-IT 25" programme, up to 25 additional professorships with a focus on "digitalisation" will be established at Thuringian universities in various departments. Until 2025, the Ministry will provide 18 million euros for this purpose from funds of the future contract "Strengthening studies and teaching".
[19 September 2023]