Simone Heilgendorff

studied viola in Zurich, Stuttgart, and Ann Arbor (Michigan/USA, Master of Music in viola performance 1991) as well as musicology, philosophy, and psychology in Freiburg i.Br. (D) and Berlin (Dr. phil., Humboldt Univ. Berlin 1999). Simone Heilgendorff has as both--a scholar and a musician--for several years focused on baroque performance practice and on contemporary music. She played on period instruments with ensembles such as Concerto Köln and Akademie fuer Alte Musik (Berlin) and was a guest with ensembles for contemporary music like the Ensemble Modern and Elision Ensemble (Australia).  She has been teaching musicology, historicallly informed performance practice, and chamber music at the Hochschule fuer Musik "Hanns Eisler" and at the University of the Arts in Berlin (D) as well as at the University of Magdeburg, the American College of Greece (Athens), and, as a visiting Professor of Musicology, at the University of Potsdam.
Since 2006 she is a member of the Advisory Board of the John-Cage-Organ Project in Halberstadt/Germany, starting in 2011 she is also a member of the advisoray board of the Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift.

In 2007 she became professor of Applied Musicology at Klagenfurt University (A), heading the Department of Musicology and taking charge of the program of Applied Musicology in cooperation with the Carinthian State Conservatory.

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Simone Heilgendorff recorded the entire set of sound samples and extended playing techniques on the viola for the database "Virtual Orchestra" (formerly ISIS).
For sale: IRCAM Paris/France


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