Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
Alexandra Kertz-Welzel is Professor and Chair of Music Education at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik Saar and Saarland University in Saarbrücken, where she obtained Master's Degrees in music education, German studies, Philosophy, piano performance, and harpsichord performance, and was a scholarship holder from Cusanuswerk between 1992 and 2000. In 2000, she received a PhD degree in Musicology from Saarland University, with a dissertation on aesthetics in literature and music during the early romanticism in the Nineteenth century. Prior to her employment at LMU Munich in 2011, she was a lecturer in music education at the Hochschule für Musik in Saarbrücken, and visiting scholar and lecturer in music education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
Publications
Kertz-Welzel is the author of Every child for music: Musikpädagogik und Musikunterricht in den USA, Patriotism and nationalism in music education, and Globalizing music education: a framework. Chapters on internationalizing music education, music education policy, community music, and transcultural childhoods, have appeared in international journals and handbooks.Kertz-Welzel has given lectures and keynotes at national and international conferences in Europe, Brazil, China, Nepal, and the United States.