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Petra Music
MA MA
Petra Music is Senior Lecturer in Flute and Instrumental Didactics at Mozarteum University Salzburg (Innsbruck campus). As a flautist, researcher and pedagogue, she combines performance on historical and modern instruments with a particular interest in improvisation and creative approaches to instrumental teaching. She is also active as a workshop leader, competition adjudicator and author of publications in specialist journals.
Petra Music completed her studies in Austria, Italy and the United States, completing a doctorate in Flute Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, master's degrees in flute performance and flute pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and studies in traverso in Verona, all with distinction. She also holds a diploma in German Philology from Graz.
Her artistic and pedagogical work encompasses a wide range of musical styles. Following an intensive engagement with New Music, she has increasingly turned her attention to historical repertoire performed on original instruments, from the Renaissance to the Romantic period. Improvisation is central to her work across these different fields and informs her teaching approach, which aims to encourage immediate creative musical expression through natural learning processes such as play.