SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE GERMAN MUSIC COUNCIL

The Secretary General is the highest governing official of the German Music Council (e.V.). He / she manages the business of the association and is responsible in particular for the areas of music policy and public relations.

Antje Valentin

Antje Valentin © Maxim Green
Secretary General Antje Valentin © Maxim Green

has been Secretary General of the German Music Council since March 2024. She studied instrumental pedagogy with piano as her main subject at the Berlin University of the Arts and cultural and media management at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and worked for many years as a pianist and teacher (piano, chamber music, accompaniment). Antje Valentin was head of the Berlin-Friedrichshain Music School and deputy director of the Berlin State Music Academy. From 2011 to the beginning of 2024, she was director of the State Music Academy NRW in Heek. Since 2013, she has also given guest courses on professional skills for instrumental and vocal teachers at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.


Antje Valentin has already worked in an honorary capacity on numerous committees, including the board of the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband Berlin, Jugend musiziert, the Berlin Music School Advisory Board, the board of Jeunesses Musicales Berlin and the presidium of the Music Council Berlin. From 2016 to 2022, she was spokesperson for the Association of Federal and State Music Academies in Germany. Antje Valentin is currently a board member of the Netzwerk Junge Ohren e.V., the Jeunesses Musicales Foundation and Übehaus Kray e.V. in Essen.

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Musicians can sing or play in the ensembles of the German Music Council, the Federal Youth Orchestra, the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Youth Choir, and take part in competitions. With four other projects in the area of promotion, the German Music Council supports young, highly talented musicians, conductors, composers and interpreters of contemporary music as well as pop musicians on their way to a professional musical life and builds a bridge between musicians, organizers and the public. In addition, the German Music Information Center (miz) offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.

 

 

The German Music Council is the sponsor of the competitions for children and young people: Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, the competitions for professional musicians: the German Music Competition, the German Conducting Award (formerly the German Conducting Prize) and the German Choral Conducting Award, as well as the competitions for amateur musicians: theGerman Choir Competition and the German Orchestra Competition.

The German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat e. V.) is the mouthpiece and initiator of music policy issues for its members.

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Promoting young musicians in the ensemblesof the German Music Council also includes performing on stage in front of an audience. The project leaders are happy to accept requests for engagements. The German Music Competition concert promotion program arranges approximately 200 concerts a year for concert organizers and concert series.

Music educators will find concepts and working materials for music lessons at the Podium Gegenwart's educational projects. Current developments in music policy and studies can be found in the "Music Education" section, as well as specialist articles on this topic at the German Music Information Center.

With the German Music Information Center, the German Music Council offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.