Description
In her seminar, Katja Heldt talks about inclusion, diversity and gender equality in the context of contemporary classical music, present several research projects such as the Donaueschingen Global project (as part of the 100 year anniversary of the german festival Donaueschinger Musiktage in 2021), and reflects on critical perspectives on canon and music history and give insights into her own research on female pioneers of electronic music in the 1950-1980s.Katja Heldt is a musicologist and music journalist specialized on contemporary classical music. She studied musicology in Cologne, Berlin and Montréal. Since 2020 she is enrolled as a PhD candidate at Lund University in Sweden, where she is writing her doctoral thesis on female pioneers of electronic Music. As an author, she writes for music magazines such as Positionen, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, VAN, Circuit – Musiques Contemporaines and Glissando. She works for the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik and the Donaueschingen Musiktage and is responsible for the project “Donaueschingen Global” in the context of their 100th anniversary.
| Period | 2021 Sept 30 |
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| Event title | ULYSSES Network – The Creative Europe Program: Ulysses Online |
| Event type | Seminar |