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Thomas Busch was born in Berlin in 1977 and has been Professor of Music Education at the Trossingen State University of Music since 2020. He studied music and history teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts, TU Berlin and the University of Warwick (UK) and worked at a Berlin grammar school and a comprehensive school in Berlin-Neukölln after completing his teacher training.
After completing his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehmann-Wermser at the University of Bremen, he conducted post-doctoral research from 2011-2015 at the Music Education Research Centre at Bielefeld University, including in the BMBF research programme ‘Jedem Kind ein Instrument’ (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kranefeld). From 2017-2020, he worked at the University of Cologne as an academic counsellor and representative of a professorship for music education. His research interests include equitable participation in music, self and identity in music education and music education and social space. In the area of teaching, he has recently been particularly involved in the field of jazz education.
In 2023 and 2024, Thomas Busch coordinated the nationwide MULEM-EX study on the subject of skills shortages in music teacher training programmes.
Thomas Busch has been the spokesperson for the Committee for School Music in the Rectors' Conference of German Universities of Music since 2023 and Chairman of the Federal Music Education Group(www.bfg-musikpaedagogik). His functions at the HfM Trossingen include Head of the Teacher Training Study Commission, Chair of the Teacher Training Examination Board and member of the University Council.
More at www.thomasbusch.eu