Simone Heilgendorff (born 1961 in

Opladen Opladen, now a district of Leverkusen, used to be the capital of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis (Rhine-Wupper-District) until 1975. Opladen station is located northeast from Cologne on the railway to Wuppertal. It is also on the Autobahn A3. Population ...

) is a German

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

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as well as

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

and

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

Life

Heilgendorff studied musicology, philosophy and psychology (Dr. phil. 1999, at the

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

) and viola (Master of Music 1991,

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

) in Freiburg im Breisgau, Zurich, and in Berlin. In June 2019, she was

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in musicology at the

University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university A public university or public college is a univ ...

. Since 1993, she has held positions at colleges and universities, including a university professorship in applied musicology at the

University of Klagenfurt The University of Klagenfurt (german: Universität Klagenfurt or ''Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt'', AAU) is a federal Austrian research university and the largest research and higher education institution in the state of Carinthia. It has it ...

from 2007 to 2013. From 2013 to 2016, she was head of the international research project "New Music Festivals as Agorai – Their Formation and Impact on Warsaw Autumn, , and Wien Modern after 1980", funded by the

Austrian Science Fund The Austrian Science Fund (german: Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF) is the most important Austrian funding organization for basic research. The FWF supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a ...

(University of Salzburg). From autumn 2014 to autumn 2019, she was head of the programme area "ConTempOhr. Mediation of Contemporary Music" at the Focus on Science and Art of the University of Salzburg and the

Mozarteum University Salzburg Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the “Mozarteum” moniker in Salzburg municipality; the International Moz ...

. Heilgendorff teaches at the University of Salzburg (Department of Music and Dance Studies) and th
Universität der Künste Berlin (Sound Studies and Sound Art)
Heilgendorff is a violist and, together with her husband the cellist

Claudius von Wrochem Claudius von Wrochem (born 24 April 1965) is a German cellist. Life Born in Berlin, Wrochem studied cello with Peter Mann in Berlin from 1978 to 1984 and with in Boston from 1987 to 1990. He attended masterclasses with George Neikrug, and Wer ...

, she is a founding member and co-managing director of the

Kairos Quartet The Kairos Quartet is a Berlin-based string quartet founded in 1996. History The Kairos Quartet (initially "work in progress quartet") specialises in music from 1950 onwards. At the time of its foundation in 1996 historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

baroque music Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transiti ...

and

Neue Musik Neue Musik (English ''new music'', French ''nouvelle musique'') is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is char ...

. She studied viola with Christoph Schiller, Enrique Santiago, Emil Cantor and Yizhak Schotten. She has been active in the development and realisation of musical programmes since 1983, not only in the Kairos Quartett, but also as

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the ...

and curator, especially of the series of concerts and workshops of the Campus Musick association, which took place in Klagenfurt from 2007 to 2012 in connection with the university, and of the numerous events between music and science, for which she is co-responsible at the already mentioned ConTempOhr programme area in Salzburg in autumn 2014. Her work focuses also on cultural and cultural-psychological contexts of music, on Americana around

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...

, on musical analysis as well as musical performance practice respectively. Increasingly, artistic-scientific research is also becoming relevant to her work.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heilgendorff, Simone Women musicologists 20th-century German musicologists German classical violists Dramaturges Academic staff of the University of Klagenfurt 1961 births Living people People from Leverkusen