Kaufmann retires at the end of August 2019
Michael Kaufmann, Director of the Lucerne School of Music, will retire on August 31, 2019. He has headed the Department of Music for almost eight years. The position will be advertised internally and externally immediately.
Since taking office in March 2011, Michael Kaufmann has "significantly shaped and developed" the Department of Music at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in terms of content, culture, strategy and organization, the university writes.
Under his leadership, forward-looking projects have been implemented in the four service areas of training, continuing education, research and services, cooperation with partners in the field and third-party donors has been greatly intensified and the course has been set for the opening of the new music building at the Südpol site in Kriens in 2020.
In addition, as Head of Interdisciplinarity, Michael Kaufmann has been a strong advocate for cross-university topics. In this area, which is particularly important in the strategy of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, he dedicated himself to the development and expansion of the interdisciplinary focus areas and currently the two new interdisciplinary topic clusters "Space and Society" and "Digital Transformation of the Working World".
