Mentoring – Earnings from a university development program for music. The Alfred Toepfer Foundation is a non-profit foundation that works across Europe in the fields of culture, science, education and nature conservation. The Alliance for Teaching, which includes numerous other organizations, including the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), is in charge of it. […]

On the occasion of the 40th Autumn Academy of the International Music Academy for Soloists, Prof. Christiane Iven was a guest at 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.