About me
Tina Frühauf is the Executive Director of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), with overall responsibility for the organization and its operations. An active scholar and writer, the study of Jewish music in modernity has been Dr. Frühauf’s primary research focus for two decades, culminating in monographs such as Orgel und Orgelmusik in deutsch-jüdischer Kultur (Georg Olms Verlag, 2005) and Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989 (Oxford University Press, 2021). All of Dr. Frühauf’s publications are indexed in RILM Abstracts. Dr. Frühauf has won several noteworthy scholarships and awards for her work, including the Ruth A. Solie Award and the Jewish Studies and Music Award of the American Musicological Society. Her book Transcending Dystopia was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award. Her essay “The Dialectics of Nationalism: Jaromír Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper and Anti-Semitism in Interwar Europe” (2023) won the 55th Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an article in the concert music field. Frühauf is Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York and serves on the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. In 2019 she was a DAAD Guest Professor, sponsored by the German government, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. In 2022 Frühauf became the fifth person person to lead Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) as Executive Director. Her first milestone in this position was to facilitate RILM’s accreditation as a NGO to provide advisory services to UNESCO’s Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In January 2023 she became the Director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has served on various committees of the American Musicological Society and as Council Member, and is on the board of the Louis Lewandowski Festival in Berlin and the DAAD Alumni Association USA.
