Nina Polaschegg

studied musicology, sociology and philosophy in Giessen and Hamburg and completed her doctorate with a thesis on “Populäre Klassik – Klassik populär: Hörerstrukturen und Verbreitungsmedien im Wandel” (Böhlau 2005).

Her research focuses on contemporary composed, improvised and electronic music as well as contemporary jazz.

She lives as a freelance music journalist and musicologist in Vienna, works for various public broadcasters in Germany and Austria and writes for various specialist journals.

As a double bass player, she devotes herself primarily to free improvisation, but has also repeatedly dealt with historical performance practice of early music.