CV
Education
Therapeutic Training: Artistic Systems Therapist (DGSF certified), Academy for Cultural Education, Remscheid, 2022-2024
Mindfulness Teacher Training Course (MTTC) - Tools for Change: teacher training in Pauenhof, Germany, 2020-21
SRH Hochschule, Riedlingen (2020, MSc Health and Prevention Psychology)
Freie Universität, Berlin (2015, BSc in Psychology)
Mannes College of Music, New York City (1999, Master of Music)
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, (1995, Bachelor of Music, Highest Distinction in Performance)
Manhattan School of Music, Preparatory Division (1986-1991)
Professional Activities
Founding Director of TGR The Green Room, Cologne, 2020-now
Member of the Board of Directors: European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC), 2024-2028.
Private Teaching Studio: New York, Paris, Berlin, Rochester, Düsseldorf/Cologne, 1995-2021
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, Lecturer, Humanities Department, 2017-2019
Iartschool, Faculty, Hangzhou, China, 2016-2017
Hickok Center for Brain Injury, Course Leader, Rochester NY, 2016
Concours international de piano d’Orléans, Jury, Orléans, France, 2012
Jugend Komponiert Berlin/Brandenburg, Rheinsberger Musiktage, Faculty, 2008
Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, New England Conservatory, Boston; Faculty 2007
Lectures / Masterclasses / Talks / Residencies
TransCultural Exchange Conference in Cambridge MA; March 2025: Solidarity and Resistance in a Globalized World. Workshops and Panel Discussion with:
Bojana Panevska: Programme Advisor TransArtists, Amsterdam
Bénédicte Alliot: General Director, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
Liudmyla Nychai: Project Coordinator, NGO Congress of Cultural Activists, Zbarazh, Ukraine
Heather O’Donnell: Founding Director of TGR The Green Room
Johan Pousette: Curator, writer and consultant, Stockholm, and
Mary Sherman: Artist, Writer and Director at TransCultural Exchange
Performing Arts Medical Association: The Listening Room: A Peer Support & Professional Development Forum for Mental Health Practitioners (Online); Heather O’Donnell: Moderator, 2024-25
KINOaktiv | Filmszene Köln: Exchange of views on working conditions in the film industry, February 2025, in TGR The Green Room, Cologne
with
Heather O’Donnell, Psychologist and Artistic-Systemic Therapist
Renate Schmid, lawyer with a speciality in workers’ rights in media and press
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, November 2024: Panel discussion: Mutter.Schutz:
How can we successfully balance art and motherhood?
with:
Prof. Dr. Florence Millet
Junior professor Dr. Constanze Schellow
Student Clara Flaksman
Moderation: Heather O'Donnell, psychologist and director of the Green Room
Take Care: three-part training sessions/workshops for leaders and artists in the Circus Arts
Sector, funded by Creative Europe; April – June 2025
Culture for Health and Wellbeing: Panel Discussions, Workshops on Mental Strengths for Artists and Cultural Workers, Culture Action Europe, Bielsko-Biała, November 2025
Deutsche Kammerakademie, Neuss : Workshop: The Mental Strengths of Artists, October 2024
Theatermuseum, Kulturamt Düsseldorf : Workshop: The Mental Strengths of Artists,October 2024
UNESCO - German Commission, Bonn : Report on work with refugee artists, May 2023
European Network of Cultural Centres, Orihuela: Systemic Team Development for Cultural Workers; March 2023
Gürzenich Orchestra, Köln : Introduction to the work in TGR The Green Room, October 2022
Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf: Weekend Workshop: Practicing Impulses and Musicians’ Health, February 2020
Eastman School of Music, Rochester N.Y. : Lectures on Musicians’ Health, 2018 - 2019
PAMA, Weill Medical Center, N.Y.C.: Lectures on Musicians’ Health, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2024
Earlier Events:
Performing Arts Medical Association Symposium: Lecturer: Lost in the (neuronal) Stars: The artistic, social, and psychological consequences of non playing-related neurological dysfunction on performing musicians. Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 2016.
World Piano Conference, Guest Lecturer: Marsyas bound: Neurological dysfunction and its impact on pianists, from a pedagogical perspective. Rehabilitative work at the instrument with affected pianists. Novi Sad, Serbia, 2015
Kurt Singer Institute for Musician's Health, Certificate Course, Universität der Künste, Hochschule für Musik Hanns-Eisler. Music-physiology in the everyday life of a musician, Berlin, 2014
Medical Neuroscience, Duke University (Coursera): Certificate Course, 2014
Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development: Conference Participant, Learning_Emotions_Music, 2013
Languages of Emotion, Internship with Stefan Koelsch's research group in bio-psychology and music-psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2014-15
Internship with psychotherapist Ron Coon, Berlin 2013-14
New School University, Columbia University New York, 1999-2002; Continuing Education: Courses in Philosophy, Literature
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, 2002, 2004 Summer Courses, awarded Interpretations-Prize
Centre Acanthes, Avignon, Masterclass with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, 2001
Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts, Masterclasses with Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, Joel Smirnoff, 1998
Taos Festival, New Mexico, Masterclasses with Takács String Quartet, American String Quartet, 1996
Seminar with Alfred Brendel on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, Carnegie Hall, NYC, 1992
Lectures/Residencies/Masterclasses
Columbia University, New York 2008
Hochschule für Musik Mannheim 2005
Ostrava Days, Ostrava 2005
Cornell University, New York 2005
Manhattan School of Music, New York 2005
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Südafrika 2004
Performances (Selection)
Solo Concerts — 1995-2013
Berlin (Konzerthaus, Staatsoper Unter den Linden), New York (Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall), Paris (IRCAM), Beijing (Central Conservatory of Music), Moscow (Dom Theater), St. Petersburg (Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace), Amman (Al-Hussein Concert Hall), Rome (Villa Massimo), Copenhagen (Borups Højskole), Krakow (Krakow Philharmonic Hall), Boston (Jordan Hall), Banff (Banff Centre), Budapest (Trafo), Abu Dhabi (Germany Embassy)
Festival Performances — 2002-2012
MaerzMusik (Berlin), Festival Agora (Paris), Peterhof Festival (St. Petersburg), Indaba Festival (South Africa), World New Music Days (Stuttgart), Tanglewood Festival (Lenox), Sziget Festival (Budapest), Beijing Modern Music Festival (Beijing), Klangwerktage (Hamburg), Wittener Tage (Witten), Eclat Festival (Stuttgart), Ostrava Days (Ostrava)
Concerto Appearances — 2000-2013
Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, Ensemble United, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Symphony, Ploiesti Romanian State Philharmonic, Harvard Orchestra
Curatorial Projects - 2004-2010
Responses to Ives (new works for piano written in honor of Charles Ives’s 50th death year)
Piano Optophonique (new works for piano and video projection)
Instinct (Dance production with Helmut Oehring and Compagnie Pal Frenák)
Discography
Responses to Ives – Mode Records/Deutschlandfunk, mode 211
Oliver Schneller - Wergo/Deutsche Musikrat, WER 65792
Ursula Mamlock, volume 3 - Bridge Records 9360
Young China - hr/musik.de, hrmn 040-09
Touch! Don’t Touch! – Wergo, WER 66792
Teachers
Peter Serkin, 1997-99; Lillian Kallir, 1996-97, Patricia Zander, 1995-96; Stephen Drury, 1991-95; Solomon Mikowsky, 1986-91; Charles Milgrim, 1979-86
Coaches
Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, 2004; Helmut Lachenmann, 2003; Jonathan Harvey, 2002; Tristan Murail, 2002; Claude Helffer, 2001; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, 2001; Emanuel Ax, 1998; Joel Smirnoff, 1998; Felix Galimir, 1998; Luciano Berio, 1994, György Ligeti. 1993
Languages
English: native speaker
German: TestDaF certified level C1: advanced
Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin e.V.
Performing Arts Medicine Association
Volunteer Work
European Network of Cultural Centres; Board of Directors, 2024-2028
COVID-19 Emotional Support Hotline: New York State Office of Mental Health, 2020
Rochester People’s Climate Coalition (RPPC): Leadership Team, 2017-2019
Hickok Center for Brain Injury: music therapeutic courses in a care facility for individuals with traumatic brain injury, 2016-2017