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Matthias Schwabe

  • Born in 1958 in Karlsruhe
  • Studied composition and music theory in Karlsruhe and Hamburg
  • Training, later collaboration with Lilli Friedemann in musical group improvisation
  • Since 1984, freelance work in Berlin as a composer, improviser, music teacher and music education author
  • Founding member of the improvisation ensemble “Ex Tempore“
  • Continuing education activities in the field of creative music education at home and abroad
  • Teaching assignments at the Social Pedagogical Institute Berlin (educator training) and at the Berlin University of the Arts
  • Numerous publications on the topics of (group) improvisation, creativity in instrumental teaching and elementary music education
  • Co-editor of the only German-language specialist journal on the theory and practice of improvised music improfil (formerly ringgespräch über gruppenimprovisation).
  • Founder and director of the exploratorium berlin.

www.matthiasschwabe.com