Academic CV


Ursel Schlicht, Ph.D.

Education

1999
1996-1999 
1992

1984-1992

Universität Hamburg, Germany
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Universität/Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany

Universität/Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany

Doctorate in music (cum laude)
Doctoral fellowship
Staatsexamen. (Degree in Music and Art Education) (summa cum laude)
Studies in Music, Visual Arts, Pedagogy/Psychology

  Languages German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent)


Teaching Experience

Courses taught at Universities

2003-present

 

Ramapo College

 

 

Improvisation in Music
Music and Gender from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Foundations of Music

2003-present

 

Columbia University
Music Humanities / Masterpieces of Western Music

2002-2003

 

Rutgers University Introduction to Music (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)

2001

 

Universität Hamburg

 

Women Jazz Instrumentalists Today and throughout Jazz History

2000

 

 

New School University

 

 

Jazz Insights – Women Jazz Instrumentalists (Summer 2000)Lecture series hosted by Ursel Schlicht and Arnold Jay Smith. Collaboration of the New School University and International Women in Jazz. Part of  JVC Jazz Festival

1988-1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Universität/
Gesamthochschule Kassel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harmony/Theory:

  • Classical Music Theory I and II / Jazz Harmony I and II / Jazz Ear Training

Jazz/Improvisation:

  • Jazz Piano: Basics I and II / Jazz Piano: Stylistic Analyses
  • Group Improvisation
  • Approaches to Improv. and Comp. in Experimental Jazz and 20th Century Music

History/Women in Music:

  • Social History of Women in Music in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  • Women Composers in the 20th Century
  • The Life and Work of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Clinics, Workshops, Seminars

1992-present New York, Melbourne, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Juneau, Jaroslawl/Russia, Kassel, Göttingen, Bremen, Frankfurt, Dresden, Luzern Group improvisation, Jazz (combos, big bands), Jazz piano, Jazz theory, Jazz harmony, Jazz ear training
     

Musicological Publications

Professional Experience / Curatorship / Concert Productions (Selection)

  • Curator/Producer/Performer: Neue Musik im Dock 4, Kassel, Germany. Symposium für Aktuelle Musik (2005). Concert Series Neue Musik im Dock 4 (2003-4) Ex Tempore 2 – International/Intercultural Concert Week, Documenta 11 (2002) “Piano Conversations” 2001
  • Guest Curator, Music Omi International Artist Residency (2002)
  • Curator/Producer/Performer: Ex Tempore, Site-specific Performances of New Music relating to Women’s History in Kassel. Documenta X (1997)
  • Assistant in the Archives of Frau und Musik. Int. Arbeitskreis, Kassel (1991-93)
  • Co-Founder/teacher: Music School “Musikzentrum im Kutscherhaus”, Kassel (1991-1995)

Professional Memberships

  • American Musicological Society
  • Chamber Music America
  • International Association for Jazz Education
  • International Women in Jazz (Board Member 2001-06)
  • Music Omi International Artist Residency (Board Member)
  • Roulette Intermedia
  • Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York
  • Frau und Musik. Internationaler Arbeitskreis (Germany)
  • Melodiva (German Organization for Women in Popular Music)
  • Förderverein Kasseler Jazzmusik.