pedagogy
Michael Hell has held the position of Professor of Harpsichord and Basso Continuo at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, since the winter semester of 2011/12. Along with teaching harpsichord and basso continuo lessons for his class of Bachelor and Master level students, he also gives weekly lectures and seminars on ornamentation, harpsichord literature and organology, as well as source study and the practices of basso continuo. He is also often responsible, together with the baroque violinist Susanne Scholz, for the direction of the University’s opera, orchestra, and chamber music projects.
He regularly lectures at international conferences on subjects relating to historically-informed performance practice. His focus is on the stylistically differentiated performance of ornamentation and basso continuo. Additionally, he is a regular lecturer at summer academies and master classes.
Immediately after completing his studies in Hannover (recorder with Siri Rovatkay-Sohns and harpsichord with Zvi Meniker) and Basel (harpsichord and basso continuo with Jesper Christensen), Michael Hell came to the KUG Graz, where he began teaching recorder, harpsichord, basso continuo, and teaching practice in 2005.