Valerie Krupp

Valerie Krupp is a Professor of Music Education at the Mainz University of Music since 2017 and has served as its Rector since April 2023. She holds a visiting professorship at NORD University (2024-2026) for the EU Horizon project Dialoguing Arts. Her work focuses on cultural education, participation equity, teaching quality, and social justice in music education contexts.

• Education: Studied music, Romance studies, and educational sciences at Würzburg and Paris institutions
• Leadership: Rector of Mainz University of Music; Chair of advisory boards for Dres. Göbel Foundation for Music and Elke & Franz Waldeck Foundation

Research highlights include:

• KuMuS-ProNeD (BMBF 2023-2026): Digital learning competence network
• Dialoguing Arts (EU Horizon 2024-2026): Cultural literacy for social inclusion
• Mulem-Ex (2023-2025): Addressing music teacher shortages
• Music and Personality (2018-2021): Longitudinal study on music participation and personality development

Recent publications examine Deeper Learning pedagogy, pluriliteracies in CLIL instruction, and participation barriers in music education. Awarded the Sigrid-Abel-Struth Prize (2017) for her dissertation. She co-edits the journal Beiträge Empirischer Musikpädagogik and serves on boards of the Mainz School Music Network and Center for School, Educational, and Higher Education Research.