Sabine Schneider-Binkl
Subjects
Chair of Music Education
Biography
Dr. Sabine Schneider-Binkl is Professor of Music Education and Head of the Bachelor’s program Music Education & Music Performance.
She studied music as a double major for secondary school teaching at the University of Regensburg, with artistic focuses in piano and voice at the Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik Regensburg. In addition, she expanded her teacher training program with the subject of Spanish and completed her studies with the first and second state examinations. Her broad experience in music education includes several years as a secondary school teacher for music and Spanish as well as work as a piano teacher and choir conductor in southern Germany. She also served as a research assistant at the University of Regensburg, where she received her doctorate with a dissertation on “Teacher Cognition in Music Education: A Qualitative Study Based on Video-Stimulated Recall Interviews” (Regensburg 2019, Dr. phil.). Subsequently, she held substitute professorships at the University of Music Trossingen and at Justus Liebig University Giessen, as well as lectureships at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart and at the Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education Trossingen. For her outstanding achievements in academic teaching, she was awarded the Wolfgang Mittermaier Prize 2023 of the Erwin Stein Foundation.
Her particular research interests include issues of identity development, self-concepts and biographies, as well as democracy education. Among other projects, she conducted research within “TOGETHER! – Chor.Leben” on behalf of the German Choir Youth on participation in choir rehearsals, and she directed the project “Music Education, Cultures of Remembrance, and Democracy Education” at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In her current third-party funded project “Social Cohesion through Music, Movement, and Dance” (since 2025, Stella University of Music), she is investigating existing practice formats in the four-country Lake Constance region in cooperation with the University of Music Trossingen, the University of Education Weingarten, and Zurich University of the Arts.