Alone or together? About the positive effects and diverse potentials that team teaching at universities of music can offer as a supplement to individual artistic instruction.   The model of team teaching in the artistic main subject is not new, but it is still not practiced very much at German universities of music. The reason […]

Christiane Iven has the pleasure of accompanying the rehearsals for the upcoming concerts (May 15, 16, 21, and 23). The vocal ensemble LauschWerk mainly consists of active and former members of the Audi Youth Choir Academy, who have decided to pursue a professional singing career. The ensemble, made up of 8-16 singers, works under the […]

  Mentoring – Earnings from a university development program for music   The Alfred Toepfer Foundation is a non-profit foundation that operates throughout Europe in the fields of culture, science, education and nature conservation. It is in leading position in the Alliance for Teaching, to which numerous other organizations up to the BMBF (Federal Ministry of […]

On the occasion of the 40th Autumn Academy of the International Music Academy for Soloists, Prof. Christiane Iven was a guest of the NDR in the program “Klassik à la carte”.

A contribution by Christiane Iven to the academy day “Theater und Kritik” of the theater academy August Everding on 16.11.2017 In their profession, singers are constantly put up for public evaluation. From the audience, from (sometimes ill-meaning) colleagues, from conductors, general directors, stage directors, from people who broker and sell art. And from music journalists, […]

Summary of a lecture for a vocal pedagogical seminar (GPZ) of the National Association of German Vocal Pedagogues (BDG) The voice lesson stimulates pedagogues on a very special level: You communicate with your students about a physical, phonatory, artistic and emotional process. The ability to assess the frame of reference and intellectual capacity of the […]

An interview with Christiane Iven on the education and career of a singer in a feature by Michael Zerban, Editor-in-Chief of Opernnetz.de.