Keynotes & Lectures
(in alphabetical order)
Keynotes
Michael Nehls: How to Revitalize Your Mental Battery. The neurobiological fountain of our mental energy, creativity, individuality, and motivation ─ and how to make better use of it. |
Medical and Biotechnological Entrepreneur & Author, Germany |
Michael Nehls, MD PhD, is a physician and habilitated molecular geneticist. As a scientist, he deciphered the genetic causes of various hereditary diseases at German and international research institutions. Some of his discoveries have been published with Nobel Prize winners, and another was honored by the prestigious U.S. Association of Immunology as a "Pillar of Immunological Research." Dr. Nehls has also gained experience in industry. For example, he was VP of genetic Research at an US company for 3 years and then CEO and CSO of a Munich-based biotechnology company for 8 years. In the meantime, he has made it his task as a scientific author to shed light on the causes of civilization diseases and gives lectures at congresses and universities as a private lecturer. |
Lectures
Matthias Bertsch: Combating Performance Anxiety in Virtual Reality While Having Fun on Top Concert Stages |
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria |
Matthias Bertsch is dedicated to interdisciplinary Performance Science (Acoustics - Physiology - Psychology). As systematic musicologist he teaches and researches at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) using a large variety of psychophysiological and acoustic tools in the „Motion-Emotion-Lab” to support musicians. In his current research project, he combines new 360/3D Virtual Reality visualization techniques, augmented audio with measurements of stress levels, and muscle activities (EMG, GSR). Since 2009 he is also President of the Austrian Society for Music Performance Medicine and Music Physiology (ÖGfMM). |
Robert A. Duke: Propelled by Joy: How accomplishment of proximal goals during music practice contributes to personal agency, efficacy, and well-being |
The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
Bob Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a University of Texas and University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning. He is also a clinical professor in the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas and was the founding director of the psychology of learning program at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. |
Horst Hildebrandt: Solution-Oriented Tools: Motivating Resources for Stage Performance |
Zurich University of the Arts and Basel Music University, Switzerland |
Horst Hildebrandt (Prof. Dr. med., MA Violin) studied violin in Freiburg and London as well as medicine in Freiburg. He continued his education in the fields of sensorimotor and psychomotor therapy, Dispokinesis, mental training, hypnotherapy and pain therapy. His professional activity as violinist includes his work in opera and radio broadcast orchestras, as first violinist of the Hilaros-Quartet and the Ensemble Aisthesis, and, starting in 1988, as a member of the Ensemble Aventure Freiburg. In addition, he has been teaching for over 30 years at music schools as well as lecturing at music universities and for orchestras. Hildebrandt is Chair of the MAS program in Music Physiology and the Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine Sections at the Zurich and Basel Music Universities. The main focus of his teaching and research are the fields of psycho-physiology, prevention and health promotion. |
Veronika Lubert1 and Sanna Nordin-Bates2: Between Discipline and Creativity: Reflections on Performing Artists’ Motivation from the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory |
1University of Vienna, Austria and 2Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences Stockholm, |
Veronika Lubert is a doctoral researcher in psychology and a university lecturer for motivation and self-regulation at the University of Vienna. Supported by a Marietta Blau grant, she currently works as a visiting researcher at the Swedish School of Sports and Health Sciences and at the Royal Northern College of Music. In her research, she aims to transfer knowledge from sport psychology to the performing arts by investigating interventions to enhance performance under pressure in music, dance, and acting. Holding degrees in both psychology and violin performance, she is also a performance coach and active violinist.
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Bridget Rennie-Salonen: “It’s bigger than just this music thing.” Change Through Somatic Learning in Musicians’ Health Education |
Stellenbosh University, South Africa |
Dr Bridget Rennie-Salonen is an award-winning flautist and academic, Bridget is a sought-after performer, pedagogue, and musicians’ health practitioner. Her research and leadership in Performing Arts Health is ground-breaking for South Africa. Focusing on integrating optimal artistic performance with well-being and health promotion, her research includes musicians’ health education and health literacy, somatics, sensorimotor retraining, and performance psychology. Based at Stellenbosch University, Bridget holds certificates in Performing Arts Medicine and Functional Movement Anatomy. She is researcher on the international Musicians’ Health Literacy Consortium and commissioner on the International Society for Music Education. She chairs the South Africa Performing Arts Health Association NPO. |
Kurt Sokolowski: Will I or Will I Not? – Motivation at the Crossroads |
University of Siegen, Germany |
Prof. Dr. Kurt Sokolowski. 1972 to 1977 Studies of Psychology in Bochum – 1976 Training in Behavior Therapy at the "Psychological Medicine Department" of King's College Hospital, University of London – 1977 Diploma in Psychology, University of Bochum - 1986 Dr. phil., University of Wuppertal – 1991 Habilitation in Psychology - 1992 Senior Assistant, University of Wuppertal – 1996 University Lecturer at the University of Wuppertal - Between 1992 and 2000 various professorships at the University of Osnabrueck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and Technical University Dortmund - 2000 to 2018 Professor for General and Differential Psychology at the University of Siegen. |
Claudia Spahn, Manfred Nusseck and Anna Immerz: “How did I get into music?” Results of a survey of music students at the University of Music Freiburg (Germany) |
University of Music Freiburg, Germany |
In a mixed methods study, students were asked at what age they decided to study music and what motivated them to do so. The presentation of the results includes quantitative data on 350 international students as well as excerpts from the interviews with the students in the form of case vignettes.
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Anna-Maria Wagner1 and Jonas Zopf2: Childhood Dream Olympics: Reaching a Long-Term Goal Despite Obstacles Such as Corona |
1Judoka, Germany 2Sports Scientist, Germany |
How does one stick to one’s life-long goals despite competition cancellations, lockdowns, and other setbacks? This interview will explore motivation to keep training, focus on interim steps, keep one’s self fit and in competition mode, and build the partnerships necessary to keep going in incredibly difficult times.
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