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Projects The projects carried out by the SIM focus on research as well as publications and exhibitions. The objectives are the dynamic further development of existing areas of focus and the establishment of new ones, the strengthening of international cooperation, the integration of global issues, a

Latest Research Public lectures and colloquia Free admission. Venue: SIM seminar room (access via the entrance to the State Institute for Music Research. Link to OpenStreetMap ) Curt-Sachs Hall, MIM Musical Instrument Museum, Ben-Gurion-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin . No registration is required. Further l

Messiaen Masterclass Masterclass – Lectures – Concert as part of the Berlin Philharmonic’s 2027 Biennale ‘Signs & Wonders’ 18 to 20 January 2027 Curt Sachs Hall, Museum of Musical Instruments, State Institute for Music Research, Berlin Monday 18 January and Tuesday 19 January 2027 from 10 am and fro

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

Annette Richards and David Yearsley Longtime colleagues who have written extensively on the Bach family, music culture and aesthetics of the long eighteenth century, and keyboard cultures across the centuries, Annette Richards and David Yearsley , are professors of musicology at Cornell University i

The Accordion Accordion by Meinel & Herold, Klingenthal, c. 1870. Photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn Spotlight exhibition The accordion is a familiar feature in many musical genres: in folk and popular music, in jazz and dance music, as well as in contemporary music. Yann Tiersen’s soundtrack to the fil

Dr. Jo Wilhelm Siebert Curriculum vitae 2000-2009 Studies in Musicology, Philosophy and Comparative Literature (MA) at the Technical University of Berlin 2003/2004 Studies (Musicology) at Royal Holloway College, University of London 2.2009 to 1.2011 Research Assistant at the State Institute for Musi

Louis Petitjean Research Assistant at the Musical Instrument Museum Louis Petitjean is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, a member of the HiCSA "Histoire Culturelle et Sociale de l'Art" laboratory and is under the joint supervision of Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di

Dr. Sydney Hutchinson Research Associate CV Since November 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research 2020-2025: Research assistant at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Popular Music Studies 2019-2020: Substitute professor for eth

Dr. Marten Noorduin Research Associate CV Since December 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research 2022-2024: Research Associate, University of Music Lübeck. Since 2022: Coordinator for science communication, COST Action CA21161, A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies (Early