Prof. Dr. Hans Aerts

Mail: h.aerts@mh-freiburg.de

Hans Aerts is professor for music theory and ear training at the University of Music Freiburg. He studied musicology at the Katholischen Universität Leuven (Belgium) and at the Technical University of Berlin as well as music theory and ear training at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin. From 2000 to 2010 he taught music theory and ear training in Berlin. In Freiburg he was lecturer for music theory at the University of Music from 2010 to 2017, and at the Albert Ludwig University from 2013 to 2017. He is primarily working on music theory in the long eighteenth century and on the development of teaching and learning materials. Since 2019 he has been a member of the editorial team of ZGMTH.



Dr. Patrick Boenke

Mail: boenke@mdw.ac.at

Patrick Boenke studied at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, University of Vienna, University of Arts Berlin and University of Technology (TU) Berlin, from 2001 to 2015 lecturer at University of the Arts Bremen, since 2004 member of the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 2012, he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna. His research interests include the history of music theory in the 19th and 20th centuries, the music of Franz Liszt, and questions of musical analysis. Since 2020 he has been a member of the editorial team of ZGMTH.



Dr. Julia Freund

Mail: Julia.Freund-1@uni-hamburg.de

Julia Freund studied musicology and philosophy in Freiburg, Bristol and Munich. From 2014 to 2017 she was visiting research assistant at the School of Music of the University of Leeds. She received her doctorate in 2017 at LMU Munich. Her doctoral dissertation was published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag in 2020 under the title Fortschrittsdenken in der Neuen Musik. Konzepte und Debatten in der frühen Bundesrepublik. 2018–2021 Julia Freund was a post-doctoral researcher in the international research cluster “Writing Music. Iconic, performative, operative, and material aspects in musical notation(s)”, with a focus on Sylvano Bussotti’s graphic scores. From 2019 to 2021, she was Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik at JLU Giessen. Since 12/2021, she is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Institut für Historische Musikwissenschaft at Universität Hamburg. Her research interests include the music of the 19th–21st centuries, music aesthetics, music historiography and theory of notation. She has been a member of the editorial team of the ZGMTH  since 2022.



Dr. Martin Grabow

Mail: martin.grabow@web.de

Martin Grabow, born in Bremen in 1974, studied piano at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, music theory at the University of Music and Theatre »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig and french philology at the Technical University of Berlin. He received his PhD at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK) in 2014. Subject of his dissertation are Pierre Boulez‘ Notations and related works with focus on the composers’ different techniques to rework the original piano pieces. Since 2002 Martin Grabow had taught at several Universities of Music (Berlin (UdK), Weimar, Osnabrück (FH), Stuttgart) before he has become lecturer for music theory and ear-training at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in 2010. He is member of the Institut für Musikforschung Mannheim and head of Netzwerk Amadé and Pre-College. His main interests in research concern music of the last century and contemporary music as well as didactic mediation of music theory. Since 2020 he has been a member of the editorial team of ZGMTH.



PD Dr. Andrea Horz

Mail: horz@mdw.ac.at

Andrea Horz studied after her diploma as music teacher musicology, philosophy and medieval German studies in Erlangen and Vienna (M.A. 2007). She then received a three-year-scholarship of the University of Freiburg i.Br. and taught there as a lecturer. From 2011 until 2018 she worked at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna (assistant professor and Hertha-Firnberg position). She received her PhD there in 2013 with a doctoral dissertation about Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon. From 2018 to 2022 she held an Elise-Richter position at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she was awarded the venia docendi (Habilitation) in 2023. From the WS 2023, she will represent the chair of musicology at the Philipps University of Marburg for one year.

Her research interests concern the history of music theory and music analysis in the 15th / 16th and the 18th / early 19th century, musical aesthetics as well as the theory of musical writing and musical recording. Since 2023 she has been a member of the editorial team of ZGMTH.



Dr. Cosima Linke

Mail: cosima.linke@posteo.de

Cosima Linke has been a professor for music theory at the University of Music and Theatre ›Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy‹ Leipzig since 2024. From 2018 to 2024 she was a substitute professor for musicology with focus on music theory at the University of Music Saar in Saarbrücken. She studied music education, German literature and music theory in Freiburg. From 2012 to 2017 she was assistant lecturer for music theory at the University of Music Freiburg, from 2013 to 2018 lecturer for musicology at the University of Freiburg and 2017/18 lecturer for music theory and ear training at the University of Music Karlsruhe. In 2017 she received her PhD in musicology with a music-philosophical and music-analytical study on the relationship of form in new music and aesthetic experience (Konstellationen – Form in neuer Musik und ästhetische Erfahrung im Ausgang von Adorno), which has been awarded with the PhD prize 2016 of the German Musicological Society (GfM). Since 2018 she has been a member of the editorial board of the ZGMTH.