Detmold Hochschule für Musik

The neuw program fo the upcoming summer-term is now online: Please click HERE for furher information!

Center for Musician`s Health

Physical and psychological wellbeing are the prerequisites for an evolvement of musical skills and for meeting the challenges of everyday life as a professional musician.

Therefore, the Center for Musician`s Health at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold is dedicated to:

• Preventing physical and psychological disorders
• Strengthening individual resources
• Offering medical care for individuals suffering from performance related health problems and psychological strain

We thus try to support our students` personal growth and musical development.

Structure

The Center for Musician`s Health belongs to the Mediation Institute for Music (IMD), just as the Career Services do.

Due to this interdisciplinary approach, we can provide a broad and practically oriented, yet individual support for our students.

Our Concept

Offering a wide range of seminars, courses and counseling, the Hochschule für Musik does not only emphasize general health promotion but also aims at a musical education based on physiological principles and at stimulating the students` individual strengths.

Our goals are effective measures of prevention as well as supporting an improvement of performance.

In our courses and seminars students can train coordination, body awareness and endurance as well as coping with stress, psychological strain and musical performance anxiety.

The program is based on scientific standards established in musicians` medicine, sports medicine, and physiotherapy, and it is well adjusted to the particular concerns of instrumentalists and singers. Yet holistic oriented body techniques or movement methods as well as approved relaxation techniques and improvement of stage presence are included as well.

For students of the Detmold Centre for highly talented young musicians (DHZ) we offer a separate curriculum comprising workshops and seminars appropriate for these young musicians.

The Musician`s Health program is free of charge for the students of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.

(Except for a low fee for individual lessons in Alexander-technique)

Our Program for the Summer Term 2013

OVERVIEW

Please click here for an OVERVIEW on our Musician`s Health program this coming summer term 2013.

Please click here to downlaod the complete program.

Below you will find the DETAILLED PROGRAM for Download:  

INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATIONS

• Musician's medicine consultations / medical care
• Psychosomatic - psychotherapeutic counseling

SEMINARS and PRACTICAL COURSES 

• Musikphysiology - Aspekts of Musicians`s Health
• Coping with Stress and with music performance anxiety, Muscle Relaxation, Mental Training etc. 
• Physiology of the Voice 1
• Physiology of the Voice 2 - Phoniatrics for Singers
• Special seminars on different topics

BODY and MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES - FUNCTIONAL BREATHING - STAGE APPEARANCE

• The Feldenkrais Technique (small groups, individual lessons)
• Alexander-Technique (weekend seminar, small groups, individual lessons)
• Breathing Techniques for Musicians - Functional Breathing
• Yoga for musicians
• Tai-Chi - Qi Gong
• Stage Appearance for Musicians

FITNESS and SPORTS

• Physio-Fit Studio
• Sports Classes, offered by AStA
• Futher options

Musicians Medicine Consultations

We offer musicians medicine consultations for students and music teachers of the HfM Detmold as well as for other, external musicians.

For members of the HfM Detmold, these consultations are free of charge.

In case of performance-related health problems, music performance anxiety, general strain and questions concerning prevention please contact the Center for Musician`s Health.

Further information and appointments:

Prof. Dr. M. Schuppert

e-mail: schuppert@hfm-detmold.de

Ph: +49 5231 - 3077364 or +49 561 - 7018277

or

G. Depner, IMD-management:

Ph: +49 5231 - 3051259

Lecturers, Physicians, and Therapists

The Center for Musician`s Health is organized by

Prof. Maria Schuppert, MD.

She teaches musician`s health and also offers specific musicians'` medicine consultations for musicians suffering from playing-related medical problems or music performance anxiety. A team of colleagues work very closely together with her in order to provide the broad variety of seminars, practical courses and sports:

• Hans-Peter Bendt (Singer, Voice Physiology)
• Annette Brockgreitens (F.M. Alexander Technique)
• Ruth Brüne (Functional breathing therapy / training)
• Bernd Dahlhaus (Professional Coaching)
• Heike Dröge (Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan)
• Dorothea Geipel (Stage appearance for musicians)
• Marion und Vincent Lévesque (The Feldenkrais Method)
• Physio-Fit (Physiotherapy Brüggemann)
• Klaus Pingsten, MD (Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Counseling)
• Caroline Schäfer-Wyneken (Yoga for musicians)
• Prof. Wolfram Seidner, MD (Phoniatrics for singers)
• Dirk Verges, MD (Phoniatrics for Singers)

Organisation and Registration

For further information on Musician`s Health and for course registration please contact:

Prof. Maria Schuppert, MD

Center for Musician`s Health

Hochschule für Musik Detmold

Office:

Neustadt 22

32756 Detmold, Germany

Ph: +49  5231 - 30 77 364

or office in Kassel:

Ph: +49 561 - 701 82 77, Fax: +49 561 - 701 82 76

e-mail: schuppert@hfm-detmold.de

Course registration:

Frau G. Depner

Institutsmanagement IMD

Tel.: 05231 - 30 51 259

e-mail: depner@hfm-detmold.de