Research Catalogue

I am a jazz pianist, composer/arranger, musicologist and artistic researcher, currently employed as Chair of Jazz Studies at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music in Klagenfurt, Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria as well as Head of the Center for Artistic Research at Jam Music Lab Private University for Jazz and Popular Music in Vienna. I have also lectured at universities in Vienna, Salzburg and Sydney. I am a board member of the International Society for Jazz Research, editorial board member of the Journal for Jazz Education in Research and Practice (IU Press) and convenor of the International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz.

My publications comprise the award-winning monograph Jazz & the City: Jazz in Graz von 1965 bis 2015, various book chapters, articles, CDs and musical scores. I edited the volume Artistic Practice as Research in Jazz and Popular Music – Positions, Theories, Methods (Routledge) and co-edited the Routledge Companion to Jazz & Gender. I have composed for big band, string ensembles, choir and jazz groups and performed at festivals and in jazz clubs across the globe. 

My current research interests comprise positions, theories and methods of artistic research in jazz and popular music, jazz history, theory and analysis as well as gender diversity in jazz and sustainability in music. 

Peer review experience for the Creative Europe Funding Program and the National Research Council South Africa, as well as journals such as Journal for Artistic Research, Jazz Education Network, Jazz Perspectives, Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, and Journal of the German Association for Popular Music Studies.

Mag. Michael Kahr MMus. PhD.

michael.kahr@kug.ac.at

michael.kahr@gmpu.ac.at

kahr@jammmusiclab.com 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2837-7841

https://www.gmpu.ac.at/universitaet/kollegium/wissenschaftlich/146

https://kug.academia.edu/MichaelKahr 

https://www.jammusiclab.com/faculty/michael-kahr