Christina Richter-Ibanez

CHRISTINA RICHTER-IBANEZ

Professor of Musicology, HfMDK Frankfurt

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. From 2018 to 2023, she researched translation strategies in popular music in a postdoc project at the University of Tübingen. She publishes and teaches on 20th and 21st century music.

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"As I teach future composers, musicians and singers in musicologyand I am interested in composed (music) theater I am curious to know how it would be possible todesign lessons and courses of study that prepare students for the diverse demands of musical theater."