Corinna Eikmeier

Dr. Corinna Eikmeier studied cello, new music and improvisation in Hanover, Duisburg, Mainz and Leipzig and is a Feldenkrais teacher.

She teaches improvisation and Feldenkrais at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

Artistically, she has specialized in improvisation and is involved in many interdisciplinary projects, including being a member of the first improvising string orchestra.

From 2007 to 2009, she carried out a project on the subject of Feldenkrais and improvisation as a scholarship holder of the Dorothea Erxleben Program. The documentation of the project was published in 2010 under the title “Unusual positions. A contribution to the application of the Feldenkrais method to musical improvisation.”. She continued the project academically and received her doctorate from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Her dissertation was published in 2016 under the title “Movement quality and music-making practice. On the relationship between the Feldenkrais method and musical improvisation.”

From 2017 to 2018 she was a visiting professor for music education at the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus/Senftenberg.