Lilo Kunkel

Lilo Kunkel currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Music Würzburg. Her academic roles include teaching composition, ear training, and practical piano playing for schools, with specific focus on jazz applications in classical contexts. She holds a doctorate from 2003 with a thesis on Max Reger's piano songs.

• Doctoral advisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Konrad
• Current affiliation: Fachgruppe Komposition/Musiktheorie
• Specialization areas: Jazz-oriented choral improvisation, Gershwin's harmonic structures, Mendelssohn/Bach harmonization

Her scholarly work combines German Lied traditions with jazz improvisation techniques, particularly evident in her concert series "Jazz on the Pipe Organ." Her publications reveal systematic analysis of:

• 20th-century tonal developments
• Impressionist harmonic systems
• Reger's chromatic language
• Nystedt's Nordic choral methods
• Gershwin's Broadway-to-classical transitions