Elisabeth Pawelke

Dr. Elisabeth Pawelke is a research assistant in music education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Since 2019, she has been a lecturer at this university and had a teaching position amongst others for singing and voice training in music education.
Before that, she worked as a singing teacher at music schools in and around Munich and as a professional manager and voice trainer in the voice and speech therapy practice Dr. Iris Eicher/Sherin Dahi. There she particularly looked after singers. The long-term senior physician at the musicians' outpatient clinic and head of phoniatrics and speech therapy at the Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Prof. Dr. Simone Graf, wrote about her work:

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"Due to the convincing results of her work, I am happy to refer many of our patients, especially professional singers, to her on a regular basis."

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She also regularly gives courses and lectures on singing and vocal studies, historical harp, early music ensemble playing and medieval music theory.

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Lectures and Poster presentations: 

05/2026  Symposium of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine at the Freiburg University of Music. Functional Orientation in Vocal Teaching at Music Schools and its Correlation with the Frequency of Participation in Continuing Education and Professional Development. Poster presentation.

04/2025    Research in Music Education (RiME): Functional orientation in didactics and methodology in voice pedagogy at music schools. Lecture.

08/2023     Harp symposion in Göttingen: The harp in the Tristan manuscripts. Lecture.

07/2023     Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen) in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Hartmann Schedel's songbook (BSB Cgm 810) and its significance for the transmission of early modern German-language repertoire. Poster presentation.

08/2022   Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVoC) at the Estonian Academy of Music Tallinn: Functional orientation in methodology and didactics in voice pedagogy at music schools. Lecture.

09/2019       Chormesse Hannover Chor.com: Vocal Health and Vocal Hygiene at Choir Singing. Lecture and und Workshop

09/2018       European Congress for Voice Teachers - Eurovox 2018, YPP at the Royal Conservatory for Music The Hague. Effects of Choir Singing on Vocal Health. Lecture.

06/2018        Symposium Art in Motion 2018 – Training for Creative Excellence at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Effects of Choir Singing on Vocal Health. Poster presentation.

09/2016        11th International Stuttgart Voice Days at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart. In armonia favellare – Voice Ideal and Vocal Practice of the stile nuovo. Short lecture.

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Publications:

12/2025    Pawelke, E.:  Functional orientation in the didactics and methodology in vocal teaching. An empirical study with singing teachers at Bavarian music schools. International University Publications 718, Münster: Waxmann.02/2020 Pawelke, E.: Advanced training report at the event "Beautiful Voice - Beautiful Larynx?" In: BDG Intern of Vox Humana –Fachzeitschrift für Gesangspädagogik 16.1, Potsdam: BDG e. V., 11.

12/2019 Eicher, I.;  Pawelke, E.: Dahi, S.; Riedl, C.: Voice as Medium of Didactics. In: Sprachförderung und Sprachtherapie in Schule und Praxis 04/2019, Dortmund: Modernes Lernen, 195–201.

02/2018 Pawelke, E. (2018): Effects of Choir Singing on Vocal Health. In: Vox Humana – Fachzeitschrift für Gesangspädagogik 14.1, Potsdam: BDG e. V., 8–9.