Kirschstein Natalie HSLU M

Dr. Natalie Kirschstein Natalie Kirschstein

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Kirschstein Natalie HSLU M

Lucerne School of Music

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6010 Kriens


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Biography

Natalie Kirschstein is an ethnomusicologist and music teacher with interests at the intersection of music, identity, social justice, and sustainability. She has worked extensively on Uruguay’s murga tradition and on ecomusicological topics, as well as the role of musicking in circumstances of forced migration. She holds a Bachelor of Science in music and psychology from Keele University, and a Masters and PhD in ethnomusicology from Harvard University, as well as a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Musik, Bewegung und Tanz from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Projects

Research projects

  • ITC - Music as Empowerment: Engaging Young Refugees in Musicking as a Way of Social Immersion
  • Seeking Birdscapes
  • Performing, Engaging, Knowing (Tagung)
  • ITC – Klingendes Amazonien im Museum
  • Music Learning Switzerland
  • Irène Schweizer Biographie, englische Ausgabe
  • Das Erbe der «École française» in den USA - Erweiterung von «Clarinet Didactics»
  • Mobile Identities: The Impact of Forced Mobility on Individuals’ Musicking (A Case Study)
  • Between Producers and Consumers: Music Critics' Role in the Classical Music Market

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Artistic, art-related work/art and design

  • Jäggi, Patricia; Kirschstein, Natalie; Lewy, Matthias; Lussi, Martina; Nigg, Marie-Louise & Simonett, Helena (2022). Birdscapes [Ausstellung im Natur-Museum Luzern, 16.09 – 3.11.2022]. Lucerne. https://www.hslu.ch/de-ch/hochschule-luzern/forschung/ausgewaehlte-projekte/birdscapes/

Publications and presentations - Book/catalogue

  • Camp, Marc-Antoine; Kirschstein, Natalie; Kretz, Johannes; Lin, Wei-Ya; Schippers, Huib & Wey, Yannick (Hrsg.). (2022). Performing, Engaging, Knowing. Luzern: Zenodo.

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Kirschstein, Natalie (2024). Ich spiele zum ersten Mal Klavier: A Musicking Ethnography. Instrumental Lessons with Unaccompanied Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Young People. Music and Arts in Action Thematic Issue – Music education among refugee and migrant youths: sharing, belonging, including,
  • Kirschstein, Natalie & Simonett, Helena (2024). Tùn Resùn: Walking in the Sounding Forest. Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 41, 53-65. doi: 10.36950/sjm.41.4
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (2020). Un-Lost in Translation: Sound, Ecology, Activism. Chigiana Journal of Musicological Studies Themed Edition: Out of Nature: Music, Natural Sounds Sources, and Acoustic Ecology, 50, 49-68.

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Camp, Marc-Antoine; Kirschstein, Natalie; Kretz, Johannes; Lin, Wei-Ya; Schippers, Huib & Wey, Yannick (2022). Performing, Engaging, Knowing: Introduction. In Marc-Antoine Camp, Natalie Kirschstein, Johannes Kretz, Wei-ya Lin, Huib Schippers, Yannick Wey (Hrsg.), Performing, Engaging, Knowing (S. 1-8). Luzern: Zenodo.

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Kirschstein, Natalie (20.11.2024). Kulturelle Teilhabe im Klavierunterricht mit geflüchteten jungen Menschen. Coffee Lecture, Hochschule Luzern – Musik , Luzern, Schweiz.
  • Kammermann, Andrea & Kirschstein, Natalie (09.11.2024). Zusammen trommeln oder zusammentrommeln? Interdependenzen von Raum, Ort und sozialen Beziehungen in musikalischen Gruppenangeboten mit geflüchteten jungen Menschen. Tagung: Musicking in der Arbeit mit geflüchteten Menschen, Hochschule Luzern – Musik, Kriens.
  • Kammermann, Andrea & Kirschstein, Natalie (14.09.2024). "Zusammentrommeln": Das Zusammenspiel von Raum, Ort und Beziehungen im Kontext von Rhythmikangeboten mit geflüchteten und asylsuchenden jungen Menschen. Fachtagung 60 Jahre Berufsverband Rhythmik Schweiz in Kooperation mit der Hochschule der Künste Bern: Rhythmik in der Forschung – Aktuelle Bestandesaufnahme Schweiz, Biel.
  • Kammermann, Andrea & Kirschstein, Natalie (05.04.2024). Zusammentrommeln: The Interplay of Space, Place, and Relationships in Music Activities with Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Young People. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie & Petersen, Suse (29.02.2024). Insights into Piano Lessons for Young Adults with Refugee Experiences. Annual Conference of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA)., Lucerne, Switzerland.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (29.02.2024). Insights into Piano Lessons for Young Adults with Refugee Experiences. 46. Internationaler EPTA Kongress, Hochschule Luzern - Musik.
  • Kammermann, Andrea; Kirschstein, Natalie; Petersen, Suse & Simonett, Helena (14.12.2023). Music as Empowerment: Rückblick und Ausblick am Durchgangszentrum Grosshof. Austauschtreffen Durchgangszentrum Grosshof, Kriens.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (18.11.2023). Ich spiele zum ersten Mal Klavier: A Musicking Ethnography. Instrumental Lessons with Unaccompanied Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Young People in Lucerne, Switzerland. Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology (CH-EM), Bellinzona, Switzerland.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie & Simonett, Helena (07.10.2022). Tùn resùn: Walking in the Sounding Forest. Conference Seeking Birdscapes: Musik, Ökologie und die Klangwelten der Vögel, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (16.06.2022). Birds, Songs, and Birdsongs: Sounding, Silencing, and Listening for a Healthy Ecology. Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2022, Taiwan (online).
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (23.10.2021). Please Listen Responsibly: Imagining Ourselves in the World Through Sound and Silence. Annual Meeting, Lucerne.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (10.04.2021). Un-Lost in Translation: Sound, Ecology, Activism. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) 2021: Music, Culture and Nature, Bath UK (Online).
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (29.03.2021). Please Listen Responsibly: Imagining Ourselves in the World through Sound and Silence. ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) Annual Conference 2021: Responsibility, St. Andrews UK (Online).
  • Jäggi, Patricia & Kirschstein, Natalie (31.10.2020). Listening to Forests and Performing with Birds: Practices of Aural Biophilia in Times of Ecological Crisis. Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental Breakdown, Online.
  • Jäggi, Patricia & Kirschstein, Natalie (26.08.2020). Listening to Forests and Performing with Birds: Practices of Aural Biophilia in Times of Ecological Crisis. Performing, Engaging, Knowing, Online.
  • Kirschstein, Natalie (07.07.2019). Double Agent: Criticism and Self-Criticism in Uruguayan Murga. IMS2019 Konferenz “Agency and Identity in Music”, Lucerne.

Achievements

    • Schippers, Huib; Kretz, Johannes; Lin, Wei-Ya; Camp, Marc-Antoine; Kirschstein, Natalie; Lewy, Matthias; Steiner, Regula & Wey, Yannick. Online Meeting "Performing, Engaging, Knowing". Mitorganisation. ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology 7th meeting, Hochschule Luzern - Musik, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien - Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education, CH-EM Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology.

Achievements - Other achievements

  • Schippers, Huib; Kretz, Johannes; Lin, Wei-Ya; Camp, Marc-Antoine; Kirschstein, Natalie; Lewy, Matthias; Steiner, Regula & Wey, Yannick. Online Meeting "Performing, Engaging, Knowing". Mitorganisation. ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology 7th meeting, Hochschule Luzern - Musik, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien - Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education, CH-EM Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology.