Music and Dance educator and teacher educator

 

Since July 2019 Secretary of the International Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg, after having served the OSF in different functions (executive secretary, vice-president, advisor) from the very beginning in 1983.

 

Born in Munich (Germany). Studied at the Music Conservatory in Munich (Viola and Voice), the Orff Institute of the University Mozarteum Salzburg (Elemental Music and Dance Education) and the Salzburg University (Psychology and Pedagogy). Specialized in Movement and Dance working with internationally renowned teachers, as well as through historical studies and extensive ethnographic fieldwork.

 

From 1974-1977 Principal of the School of Music in Malta, a Cultural Development Project of the Federal Chancellery of Austria.  Assistant Professor at the Orff Institute until 1993, teaching Didactics of Music, History of Music and Movement Education, Teaching Practice, Movement Accompaniment and Traditional Dances (historical, ethnological and social). Director of international summer courses at the Orff Institute from 1978 to 2015.

 

From 2003 to 2014 in charge of the area "Educational/Creative Dance" in the Dance Pedagogy programme at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza de Madrid “María de Ávila”, teaching all the related subjects, supervising Bachelor theses and building up the Conservatory’s library.