Natalia Avella-Ramirez launches next phase of her interdisciplinary research project

The sum­mer se­mes­ter is co­m­ing to an end, the pha­se of in­ter­views with uni­ver­si­ty tea­chers from Co­lom­bia and Ger­ma­ny has been com­ple­ted - now it's time for the eva­lua­ti­on in the co­m­ing weeks and mon­ths ... and then?

We are tal­king about the doc­to­ral the­sis of Na­ta­lia Avel­la-Ra­mi­rez on the to­pic: "In­stru­men­tal Edu­ca­ti­on in Co­lom­bia. Ap­proa­ches in mu­sic pe­dago­gi­cal re­se­arch in Co­lom­bia and Ger­ma­ny for the re­de­sign of in­stru­men­tal sub­jec­ts in mu­sic stu­dies". A to­pic on which the­re is no pre­vious work.

The aim of the work is to con­tri­bu­te to the fur­ther de­ve­lop­ment of the sub­ject with sci­en­ti­fi­cal­ly pro­ven pro­po­sals and pos­si­ble edu­ca­tio­nal po­li­cy con­se­quen­ces - and thus to con­tri­bu­te to the im­pro­ve­ment of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on in Co­lom­bia and to en­ab­le more sta­ble per­spec­tives for mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on in Co­lom­bia. The work is lo­ca­ted in an area of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on that is still po­or­ly pro­fi­led as a re­se­arch field over­all, but is be­co­m­ing in­crea­singly re­le­vant as an in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry re­se­arch field in the wake of glo­ba­li­za­ti­on. Last but not least, the work can make a si­gni­fi­cant con­tri­bu­ti­on to the im­pro­ve­ment of mu­sic-ae­s­the­tic edu­ca­ti­on in an in­ter­na­tio­nal frame­work.

Na­ta­lia Avel­la-Ra­mi­rez has, af­ter a first ar­tis­tic de­gree in Co­lom­bia (Di­plom-Pia­nist), very suc­cess­ful­ly com­ple­ted a sci­en­ti­fic stu­dy in Augs­burg (Ma­gis­ter Mu­sic Edu­ca­ti­on). Sin­ce 2020, she has been pur­suing a PhD in mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on with Prof. Dr. Ka­tha­ri­na Schil­ling-Sand­voß at the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts (HfMDK).

Sin­ce 2012, she has also held a tea­ching pro­fes­sor­ship in pia­no at the Uni­ver­sidad In­dus­tri­al de San­tan­der in Bu­ca­ra­man­ga, Co­lom­bia and can be heard re­gu­lar­ly as a pia­nist in re­gio­nal con­certs. Na­ta­lia Avel­la-Ra­mi­re­z's dis­ser­ta­ti­on pro­ject grew out of her own ex­pe­ri­ence as a tea­cher at the Uni­ver­sidad In­dus­tri­al de San­tan­der and her de­si­re to rea­li­ze cul­tu­ral par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on, as well as her awa­reness of a gre­at so­ci­al re­spon­si­bi­li­ty.

Na­ta­lia Avel­la-Ra­mi­rez re­cei­ved the DAAD Pri­ze 2022 for her spe­cial ar­tis­tic and sci­en­ti­fic abi­li­ties and her gre­at so­ci­al com­mit­ment. Among other things, Na­ta­lia Avel­la-Ra­mi­rez is a mem­ber of Red Co­lom­bia Rhein-Main, a group that ac­tively sup­ports the im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of peace pro­ces­ses in Co­lom­bia through pu­blic events.