Dr. Ursel Schlicht is a pianist specializing in improvisation, jazz, new music, and intercultural music projects. She studied music in Kassel and earned her doctorate at the Musicological Institute in Hamburg with Helmut Rösing and Peter Niklas Wilson. Her dissertation "It's Gotta Be Music First" was published in 2000 by Coda-Verlag, Karben.

 

 

Teaching

Ursel Schlicht lived in New York for many years as a freelance musician and lecturer. From 2002-2003 she taught "Music Appreciation" at Rutgers University. From 2003-2013 at Ramapo College of New Jersey Improvisation in Music, an interdisciplinary seminar she developed, and events in Music and Gender. At Columbia University, she taught Masterpieces of Western Music, a seminar on Western music history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, until 2013.

 

 

Musical Activity

Ursel Schlicht has released CDs on Nemu, Cadence, CIMP, Hybrid, Konnex, Muse-Eek, and Leo Records. She has performed at the Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival (Alaska), Edgefest (Ann Arbor, USA), Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival (Australia), Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Festival Cervantino (Mexico), Festival of Creative Music (Seattle, USA), among others. In the summer of 2012, their project SonicExchange took place in Kassel with over 50 guests from nine countries. A DVD was released in the fall of 2013 and released on the New York label Mulatta Records.