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  1. Jour Fixe – Music in the Afternoon (10.06.2026)

    Young artists introduce themselves. Minrun Shang, Alice Besombes, Sehun Ahn (violin), Guillaume Durand-Piketty (piano) (UdK Berlin) Programme Jacques Ibert (1890–1962) ‘Le petit âne blanc’ from the cycle ‘Histoires’ Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Sonata ‘Arpeggione’ D 821 – Allegro moderato Robert Schum

  2. Jour Fixe - Music in the Afternoon (18.02.2026)

    Young artists introduce themselves. Takashi Waschkau, violin, Eunhee Baek, piano Program Amy Marcy Beach (1867–1944) Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 Bela Bartók (1881–1945) Violin Sonata No. 3 in E minor, BB 28, DD 72 Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985) Concert Fantasy “The Golden Cockerel” based on Ni

  3. SIM Yearbook 2022 “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann” published (21.11.2025)

    The 2022 yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research on the topic of “Contemporary Hoffmann” is now available at https://simjb.journals.qucosa.de/simjb. The contributions in this volume are based on the symposium “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann – Im Spannungsfeld von automatisierter und künstlerisch-in

  4. Jazz im MIM: Edith Steyer BELLS (26.02.2026)

    Experimental saxophonist Edith Steyer sees her roots in jazz and 20th-century classical modernism. Edith Steyer BELLS Edith Steyer – clarinet, alto saxophone, composition Uli Kempendorf – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute Gerhard Gschlössl – trombone Rieko Okuda – piano Joe Hertenstein – drums T

  5. Dr Olga Sutkowska

    Dr Olga Sutkowska Curriculum Vitae October 2023–March 2026 Research Fellow at the State Institute for Music Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation 2018–2024 Postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2013–2018 Research assistant, mus

  6. Organology

    Organology Organology is a discipline of musicology dedicated to the study and description of musical instruments. Since its establishment by Curt Sachs, it has made use of interdisciplinary aids and techniques, primarily from art history, but also from ethnology and physics. Areas of responsibility

  7. Sound design and aesthetics

    Sound design and aesthetics Those involved in the transmission of music must make decisions that affect the reproduction of music in general and the reproduction of its sound, in particular. When reproducing an original music performance, one can distinguish three objectives in relation to sound aes

  8. Audio-visual perception of<br> acoustical environments

    Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments Participant in the Virtual Concert Hall. Photo: Hans-Joachim Maempel From 2015 to 2018, the SIM conducted the second phase of the project "Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments" (MA 4343/1-2) within the framework of the DFG research uni

  9. René Wallor, M.A.

    René Wallor, M.A. 2007 Internship at the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin 2007–2010 Collaborator in the BMWi-funded Theseus subproject Contentus at the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin 2012 Master of Arts at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in the subjects Library Science and Musicology. Master thes

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