Professorship for Music in Social Work
At the beginning of the summer semester 2022, Alicia de Bánffy-Hall will take up a professorship for Music in Social Work / Community Music at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.
Bánffy-Hall first studied Performing Arts / Community Music at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts from September 2000 to July 2004, followed by a Master's degree in Arts and Cultural Management at Manchester Metropolitan University.
She went on to become director of the community arts company Amabadelo and led numerous projects in cultural and educational institutions in the fields of music, movement and theater. She also worked as a creative agent for Creative Partnerships Merseyside in England. During this time, she was also the conceptual director of the first four community music projects with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
At the same time, she completed her doctorate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where she graduated in March 2019 and was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize for her dissertation. At this time, she was already gaining extensive teaching experience through lectureships, for example at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences Munich, the University of Hildesheim, the Zurich University of the Arts and Manchester Metropolitan University.
From December 2016, she was a lecturer for special tasks at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where she helped to set up the first Master's degree program in inclusive music education / community music, and has held a professorship at Landshut University of Applied Sciences since September 2021. Since 2018, she has been advising the Konzerthaus Dortmund on the development of community music in Dortmund. Her teaching and research focus will be on community music, community arts and music in social work.
