Gesine Schröder

Gesine Schröder has been a professor of composition at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater since 1992 (professor emerita since 2023); from 2012 to 2024, she was a professor of music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), most recently in the Artistic Research Program, and from 2017 to 2020 as a part-time lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory. She has taught as a visiting professor in Beijing, Guangzhou, Santiago de Chile, Oslo, Paris, and Zurich, among other places. Her research focused on experimental music, counterpoint around 1600, instrumentation, and gender studies. She has numerous publications to her credit, most recently the MGG entry on Brigitta Muntendorf. She has performed graphic works on the cello, including at the Bremen memorial exhibition for the painter Peter Schunter (1939–2026).