Current Positions:
since 2018 Head of Faculty Music (Dean) and Head of Master of Arts in Music Studies at Jam Music Lab Private University for Jazz and Popular Music Vienna
since 2006 Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
2015-2018 Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for Jazz Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Other Academic Positions:
2019 External Lecturer at Institute for Music and Dance Studies, University of Salzburg
2017/8 External Lecturer at Institute for Music and Dance Studies, University of Salzburg
External Academic Advisor at Jam Music Lab Private University for Jazz and Popular Music Vienna
2013, 2016/17 External Lecturer at Institute for Musicology, University of Vienna
since 2006 Senior Lecturer at University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
2002-2004 Temporary Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium of Music/University of Sydney
Other Academic Positions:
2019 University of Salzburg: Jazz und jazzverwandte Musik in Forschung und Praxis: Geschichte, Positionen, Theorien und analytische Methoden (MA, BA)
Jam Music Lab University Vienna: Artistic Research in Jazz and Popular Music (MA, BA)
2018 Conservatorium van Amsterdam: Erasmus+ guest lectureship (artistic research)
University of Salzburg: Improvisation. History, theory, analysis, practice (BA)
Jam Music Lab University Vienna: Artistic Research in Jazz and Popular Music (MA, BA)
2016/17 University of Vienna: Theory and history of jazz and popular music at a glance (MA, BA)
2006 – presentUniversity of Music and Performing Arts Graz: Jazz piano and assistance in jazz theory, composition and arrangement, applied jazz theory and selected seminars in jazz analysis and jazz history, member of examining board for pedagogical studies, supervision of didactical bachelor thesis
2013 University of Vienna: Current trends in jazz composition and arranging (MA, BA)
2003 – 2004 Sydney Conservatorium of Music/University of Sydney: jazz ensemble, jazz piano and theory (BA)
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