Karl Kügle - Biography#

Karl Kügle studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik, Munich (1975-81), the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (1981-82) and the Juilliard School (1982-83), as well as musicology, theatre studies and Japanese at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (1976-82). He continued his musicological studies at New York University, where he earned his Ph.D. with a study of the fourteenth-century manuscript Ivrea, Biblioteca capitolare 115 and its music under the supervision of Edward H. Roesner and Stanley Boorman. He subsequently held research positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Catholic University Leuven, and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 1998, he joined the Department of Music at the University of Hong Kong, where he taught until 2004. While in Hong Kong, he was visiting professor at the University of Chicago (2002) and the University of Melbourne (2003). In autumn 2004, he was appointed Professor of Musicology at Utrecht University, where he holds the Chair in the History of Music prior to 1800, originally created for Willem Smijers. In 2009, he was elected President of the Royal Society for the History of Music in The Netherlands (KVNM). Since 2011, he also serves as Head of the Department of Media and Culture Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.