Ursel Schlicht, Ph.D.
Education
1999
1996-1999
1992
1984-1992
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Universität Hamburg, Germany
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Universität/Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany
Universität/Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany
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Doctorate in music (cum laude)
Doctoral fellowship
Staatsexamen. (Degree in Music and Art Education) (summa cum laude)
Studies in Music, Visual Arts, Pedagogy/Psychology
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Languages |
German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent) |
Teaching Experience
Courses taught at Universities
2003-08
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Ramapo College
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Improvisation in Music
Music and Gender from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Foundations of Music
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2003
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Columbia University
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Music Humanities / Masterpieces of Western Music |
2002-2003
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Rutgers University |
Introduction to Music (Fall 2002, Spring 2003) |
2001
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Universität Hamburg
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Women Jazz Instrumentalists Today and throughout Jazz History |
2000
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New School University
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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
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Universität/
Gesamthochschule Kassel
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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
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Clinics, Workshops, Seminars
| 1992-present |
New York, Melbourne, Mexico City, Jaroslawl/Russia, Kassel, Göttingen, Bremen, Frankfurt, Dresden, Luzern: |
Group improvisation, Jazz (combos, big bands), Jazz piano, Jazz theory, Jazz harmony, Jazz ear training |
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Musicological Publications
Forthcoming Article: “I feel my true colors began to show”. Designing and Teaching a Course on Improvisation. In: Critical Studies in Improvisation/ Études Critiques en Improvisation, Guelph, Canada (January 2008)
Forthcoming Chapter: Lieber Jazzplatte als Lippenstift - Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick. The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Post-War Germany, in: Sherrie Tucker/ Nichole Rustin (ed.): Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, Duke University Press (2008)
Book: It´s Gotta Be Music First. Zur Bedeutung, Rezeption und Arbeitssituation von Jazzmusikerinnen. (On the Impact, Reception and Working Situation of Women Jazz Musicians) (267pp.) Coda Verlag, Karben 2000.
Published Chapters in Books:
Individuelle Musik auf Jazzbasis. Zur Arbeitsweise von Musikerinnen in Hamburg und New York. (Original Music Based on Jazz. Approaches of Women Musicians in Hamburg and New York). In: Jazz und Gesellschaft. Darmst. Beiträge zur Jazzforschung 7. Wolke, Hofheim 2002: 135-152.
Frauenbilder in der Jazzgeschichte. Zur Rezeption von Jazzmusikerinnen. (Images of Women in Jazz History. Perception of Women Jazz Instrumentalists by the Media). In: Geschlechterpolaritäten in der Musikgeschichte des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, Beiträge zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte der Musik Bd. 3. Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2002: 255-265.
“Ein Lebensgefühl, mal anstrengend, mal wunderbar.” Jazz & Gender – zur aktuellen Situation Hamburger Musikerinnen. (“A Way of Life, Sometimes Tough, Sometimes Wonderful”. Jazz and Gender – On the Current Situation of Women Musicians in Hamburg). In: Hamburger Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft. Peter Lang Verlag, Hamburg 2002: 263-278.
Wege zur professionellen Jazzmusikerin. Die Bedeutung von musikalischer Ausbildung, Vorbildern, und Unterstützung für die professionelle Entwicklung am Beispiel von sechs Jazzmusikerinnen. (Paths to become Professional Jazz Musicians. Stories of Six Women Jazz Artists show the Impact of Music Education, Role Models and Support on their Professional Careers). In: Frauen-Körper-Kunst, Band III, Hg. Sybille Gienger, Martina Peter-Bolaender, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. Furore, Frankfurt a.M., 2001: 138-155.
Universalsprache Musik - Möglichkeiten interkultureller und non-hierarchischer Kommunikation. (Music as a Universal Language – Possibilities of Intercultural and Non-hierarchical Communication). In: Interaktionen. Formen und Mittel der Verständigung. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein/Taunus 2000: 76-90.
Jazzinstrumentalistinnen - Individualistinnen in einer marginalisierten Musik. Handlungsstrategien zur Gestaltung und Bewältigung ihres professionellen Alltags. (Women Jazz Instrumentalists - Individualists in a Marginalized Music. Strategies to Design and Cope with Daily Life as Professional Musicians). In: Frauentöne – Beiträge zu einer ungeschriebenen Musikgeschichte. Coda, Karben 2000: 217-241.
Klang-Experimente. Workshop Freiräume durch Improvisation (Sound Experiments. On my workshop “Personal Development through Improvisation”). In: Ortsveränderungen. Perspektiven weiblicher Partizipation und Raumaneignung. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein/Taunus 1999: 224-229.
Women Cook - But Not in Kitchen. Frauen im Jazz. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie. (Women in Jazz - An Annotated Bibliography). Darmstadt 1994 (64 pp).
Book Reviews (Selection):
“Am liebsten wär ich selbst Musik”. Review of Levens, Ulla (Hg.): Begegnungen mit Barbara Heller. Biographie. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2006, 368 S. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und einer CD mit Werkeinspielungen.
In: Virginia FrauenBuchKritik, Vol.42, Fall (October) 2007: 12
Review of: 25 Plus Piano Solo. 25 Jahre Frau und Musik. Jubiläumsausgabe. Schriftenreihe Frau und Musik, Internationaler Arbeitskreis e.V. (Publ. and Ed.), Vol. V. Kassel: Furore-Verlag, 2004, 182 pp.
Fanny Hensel: Klaviermusik – eine Auswahl (Piano Music – A Selection). Fanny Hensel zum 200. Geburtstag 2005. Kassel: Furore-Verlag, 2004. 35 pp.
In: Women & Music. A Journal of Gender and Culture. Vol. 10, 2006: 89-92
“500 Seiten Klaviermusik von Komponistinnen. Ein Nachschlagewerk von Arrieu bis Zechlin”. Review of: Heller, Barbara and Weiermüller-Backes, Isolde: Klaviermusik von Komponistinnen. Düsseldorf: staccato, 2003.
In: Die Tonkunst online, Ausgabe 0402, 1. Februar 2004. http://www.die-tonkunst.de/dtk-0402/Neuerscheinungen/ind.html. © 2004
Lectures (Selection)
- Ramapo College (NJ, 10/2007, and 10/2006) Closeted and Cloistered Voices: Queer Composing in the Baroque Era. (Lecture with Live Performance)
- University of Kansas, (3/2007) Jazz Studies Colloquium: Does it Sound Avant-Garde to You? Concert & Talk
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Columbia University (Guest in Prof. S. Boynton’s Seminar, 2005, 2006): My Personal Approach to Jazz Composition
- Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium (Guelph, Canada, 2005): I Feel My True Colors Began to Show. Teaching a College Course on Improvisation.
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Ramapo College (NJ, 3/2005) Sehnsucht – Yearning. Songs with and without Words. In Celebration of Fanny Hensel’s 200th Birthday
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Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium (Guelph, Canada, 2003) Ex Tempore: The Development And Practice of An Artistic Vision in Response to World Conflict
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Melbourne Women´s International Jazz Festival (Melbourne, 2003). Experiences of Women Jazz Musicians in New York. Networks, Resources, Perspectives.
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Jazzhochschule Luzern (Switzerland, 2002). Unoccupied Territories – Original Works by Women Jazz Musicians
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American Musicological Society: (New York 2001, Fall meeting of the Greater New York Chapter): “Contributions of Women Jazz Artists to Jazz as Aesthetic and Political Liberation Process”
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Jazzforum Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 9/2001): “Jazz & Gender in Hamburg and New York”
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IAJE Conference (New York 2001) Clinic: “It´s Gotta Be Music First”, with IWJ president Lenora Zenzalai Helm. Included live performance.
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Conference on Music and Gender (Oldenburg, 9/2000): Lecture “Women Jazz Musicians in Discourse and Public Image from 1936 to the Present”
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New School University (New York, Summer 2000): Curator and co-host of the lecture series “Jazz Insights: It´s Gotta Be Music First”. Speakers: Ursel Schlicht, Jane Ira Bloom, Connie Crothers, Paula Hampton, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Diedre Murray
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Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University (6/2000): “Contributions of Women Jazz Artists in the Context of Jazz as Aesthetic and Political Liberation Process” (Part of the Jazz Roundtable Series)
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German Language Society (Washington, 5/2000): Lecture-Concert: Performance of Pieces by Women Jazz Composers “From Mary Lou Williams to Joanne Brackeen”
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State University of Connecticut (Danbury, 3/2000): Lecture-Concert: “Women Jazz Musicians in the US and in Germany.” Performance of my jazz compositions.
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Forum Women- and Gender Studies (Frankfurt, 11/1999): “Getting professional. The Impact of Education, Role Models and Support on Six Women Jazz Instrumentalists”
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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Berlin, 10/1999): “Contributions of Women Jazz Artists in the Context of Jazz as Aesthetic and Political Liberation Process”
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.
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