Tina Frühauf

Adjunct Associate Professor
212-854-3825
tf2213@columbia.edu

Tina Frühauf, Ph.D., is a musicologist, writer, and editor. Her scholarly work focuses on Jewish music, twentieth-century music, and historiography.

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 from Orgel und Orgelmusik in deutsch-jüdischer Kultur (Georg Olms Verlag, 2005) to Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989 (Oxford University Press, 2021). Among Dr. Frühauf’s recent editions is Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Lily E. Hirsch) and the collection of essays, Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts (Boydell Press, 2020). Since 2011 she is the series editor of Synagogalmusik / Synagogal Music / Musique des Synagogue (Merseburger Verlag). A volume on Jewish music in southern Germany and the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music were published in 2021 and 2023. Frühauf’s articles on a wide variety of topics have appeared in high-ranked journals, including Cambridge Opera Journal, Early Music, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, The Musical Quarterly, and TDR: The Drama Review.

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 the spring of 2023 Frühauf was a Senior Fellow at the German Historical Institute’s Pacific Office at the University of California, Berkeley.  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.