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

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.