CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Gert-Matthias Wegner  (Ph.D.)
University Professor (Ethnomusicology)

b. 24/3/1949, male, German

Freie Universität Berlin
Seminar für Musikwissenschaft
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
Grunewaldstr. 35
12165 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: 0049-30-838-53537 and -838-56079
Fax:               -838-56370
e-mail:  gmwegner@zedat.fu-berlin.de
 gmwegner@mail.com.np



EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

1968-75 Kiel University, Staatsexamen (B.Ed., Class I) in Chemistry and Biology.  Thesis: Polarographische Analyse von Kupfer-oxo-vanadaten-V.

1972-81 Universities of Kiel, Cologne, and Bonn, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Indology, and Anthropology.  Thesis:  Die Tablå im Gharånå des Uståd Munir Khån (Laliyånå) - Studien zum Trommelspiel in der nordindischen Kunstmusik.



LANGUAGES

Fluent speaking knowledge of German, English, Hindi, Nepali and Newari.
Reading knowledge of Sanskrit, Italian, French, Swedish.



RESEARCH

1971-95 studies in tablå, ∂holak, and pakhåvaj drumming, dhrupad, and Indian music theory with the tablå virtuoso Pandit Nikhil Ghosh in Bombay (funded by Deutsches Studentenwerk, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, German Academic Exchange Service, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

1981-84 art and music of the Warli people of Maharashtra

1982-84: music of the people of Gorkha and Lamjung, Nepal
(funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

1982 to date: musical life and drumming traditions of the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Leverhulme Foundation)

1999 to 2002:  music of the Sherpa people of Nepal (funded by Eco Himal)

2001 to 2002:  music of the Rai people of Nepal (funded by Eco Himal)

2003: music of the Tuva and the Kasakh people in the High Altai, Mongolia (funded by German Foreign Office)




EMPLOYMENT

1976-81 Research Assistant and Presenter (part-time) for Radio Cologne(WDR III)

1979-81 Guest Lecturer for tablå, Musikhochschule Köln (Cologne Music Conservatory)

1980-81 Piano Teacher, Musikschule Burscheid

1985-90 Research Fellow, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Cologne, for Newar Music Project (as above)

1990-93 Research Officer, Centre of Music Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, for Leverhulme project ‘Musical Traditions of Northern India and Nepal; a comparative historical survey’

1993 to date Research Associate, Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (honorary)

1993-94 Consultant and Convener of the Department of Musicology Project (collaboration of Tribhuvan University and German Academic Exchange Service)

1995 to date  Professor and Head, Department of Music, Kathmandu University

2003 to date Professor, Seminar für Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft/Ethnomusicology,    Freie Universität Berlin




OTHER INFORMATION

Founder, Kathmandu University Department of Music

Workshops and invited lectures in Europe, U.S.A., India, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia; including
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Köln
International Conference ‘Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley’ (Lübeck 1985),
Universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Kiel, Osnabrück,
Musikhochschule Lübeck,
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Stockholm 1987),
National Centre for the Performing Arts (Bombay),
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris),
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1988),
Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu 1990),
British Forum for Ethnomusicology, King Alfred College (Winchester 1995),
Washington University (Seattle 1997),
Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi (1999),
Asian Institute of Technology (Chiang Mai 1999),
Jakarta University (2000),
Ethnologisches Museum SMPK Berlin (2000) , 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2004),
Theaterhaus Stuttgart (2006),
and others.

Wide field-work experience including photography, sound recording, and video.

External examiner  for Linköping University (I. Grandin)

Fieldwork supervision for
University of Montréal (Sophie Laurent),
University of Zürich (Dieter Sulzer), 
Free University Berlin (Andreas Richter)


EXHIBITIONS

Lieder der Erde (Warli art and musical instruments), Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde (Cologne, 1984)

Mittelalterliche Stadtkultur  im Kathmandu-Tal/Nepal, Ethnologische Sammlung der Hansestadt Lübeck (Lübeck 1985)

Musical Instruments and Manuscripts of Nepal, permanent exhibition at the Kathmandu University Department of Music (Bhaktapur, Nepal)


MUSICAL ACTIVITIES

As tablå-player, percussionist and pianist concerts, broadcasts, telecasts in Asia, Europe, U.S.A.

Incidental music for films:
Bernardo Bertolucci: Little Buddha (music for eight kettledrums)

Incidental music for theatre:
Friedrich Schiller: Wilhelm Tell (staged by Nationaltheater Weimar at the Rütli/Switzerland  during July/August  2004)