Natasha Loges - Biography#
Professor Dr. Natasha Loges, HonRCM, ARAM, FRHistS, is Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (since 2022). In 2025 - 2026, she holds a Fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study and in 2025 was appointed Docent at UniArts Helsinki. She previously served as Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London (2005 - 2022), during which time she undertook Erasmus exchanges to Berlin, Stuttgart, and Helsinki.
Natasha is currently editing three volumes focusing on global women pianists and piano-accompanied art song outside the west, as well as a monograph on 19th-century music. Natasha Loges’s interdisciplinary research integrates musicology, literary studies, gender studies, performance studies, and global humanities, working collaboratively with social scientists and performers to develop innovative methodologies.
Her publications demonstrate methodological innovation across disciplinary boundaries: Brahms and His Poets: A Handbook (Boydell & Brewer, 2017) combines philology, translation studies, and performance practice; her edited volumes German Song Onstage 1789–1914 (with Laura Tunbridge, Indiana University Press, 2020) and Brahms in Context (with Katy Hamilton, Cambridge University Press, 2019) bring together international scholars from musicology, history, literature, cultural studies, and sociology. Her peer-reviewed work in journals including the Journal of the American Musicological Society addresses questions of global musical exchange, performance history and practice research methodologies.
She has successfully supervised sixteen doctoral candidates and secured international funding (Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) supporting research on topics of trans-European significance including global art song and women’s musical agency. Her recent edited volumes on women pianists actively promote early career researchers, particularly from the global south.
Natasha Loges contributes to knowledge transfer for broader publics through broadcasting, concert curation, and international symposia. She broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and German radio (Südwestrundfunk, Bayerische Rundfunk), and has organised large-scale conferences featuring public concerts and workshops, including Women at the Piano 1848 - 1970 (2023, ninety international presenters) and 20th-Century Global Art Song (2024, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
She provides artistic consultancy addressing repertoire diversity for European institutions including Südwestrundfunk, Heidelberger Frühling, Theater Freiburg, Fundación Juan March, and Liedfestival Zeist. She is a former elected Council member of the Royal Musical Association (2017–2023) and current member of the IMS Asian-German Studies in Music Working Group and IMS Global History of Music Study Group.
