Hubert Minkenberg

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Hubert Minkenberg (born October 19, 1955 in Hückelhoven ) is a German musician and musicologist .

biography

Minkenberg studied musicology, German and theater studies in Cologne . He completed his studies with a thesis on " George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" . This was followed by a doctoral degree in music education, education for the learning disabled and theater studies, also in Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 1990 with the dissertation “The musical life of children aged five to ten years” . In addition, he completed an instrumental course in the subjects of saxophone, singing and piano at the Cologne Conservatory .

In 1982 Minkenberg won the WDR “Stadtmusik” award as a singer, composer and pianist. From 1984 to 1989 Minkenberg was a research assistant at the music seminar at the University of Cologne , from 1989 to 1991 music editor at WDR and from 1991 to 1999 lecturer in musicology at the Wiesbaden Music Academy. In 1999 he was appointed to a professorship for music education with special attention to new media at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. In 2000 Minkenberg was visiting professor at the University of Santiago de Chile , and in 2001 at the Universidad Mayor San Andrés in La Paz . He was a member of the board of the German Society for Music for the Disabled (DGMB) and was a GEMA delegate for the group of affiliated and extraordinary composers.

The big band of the FH Düsseldorf, founded by Minkenberg and directed until 2011, received the WDR Jazz Prize in 2011 . In 2012 he founded the Hückelhoven gospel workshop, which has been continued annually since then.

Minkenberg works regularly as a musician and lecturer at home and abroad. In 2012 he was commissioned to compose a “European Suite” as part of a Comenius project . Minkenberg's teaching and research priorities include a. the didactics and methodology of popular music and the use of new media in extra-curricular music education . Further publications are available in the field of musical developmental psychology.

Minkenberg is the founder of the saxophone quartet "fourPhones". He is married and has five children.

Publications

  • Making music for the severely handicapped. In: Music for the disabled , Ed. H. Moog, Frankfurt a. M. 1988
  • Pop music in the upper level of the LB school . In: DGMB Mitteilungen 1987
  • The musical life of children aged five to ten years , Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York 1991
  • On the relationship between music theory and practice in: Festschrift Helmut Moog , Frankfurt a. M. 1993
  • On the development of the child's musical experience with special consideration of vocal music-making Cologne 1999
  • Sing . In: Th. Hartogh and HH Wickel (eds.): Handbook of Music in Social Work , Weinheim: Juventa 2004
  • On the interaction of music education and social education using the example of Latin America - experience report from an international postgraduate course . In: Daniela Laufer and Manuela Prause-Weber (eds.) De Consolatione Musicae . Festschrift on the retirement of Walter Piel. Cologne: Dohr 2004
  • Music - especially for adults. An empirical study of the musical life of adult amateur musicians . In: NMZ 3/05
  • A brief history of hip hop in Germany . In: Different Roots, Common roots . Cologne 2006
  • Aspects of the musical experience of adult amateur musicians. An empirical study . In: Music Psychology - Musical Socialization in Children and Adolescents . Göttingen: Hogrefe 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Big Band of the FH Düsseldorf