Clemens Wöllner - Biography#

Clemens Wöllner is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Music Freiburg, Germany. From 2013-2022, he was Professor of Systematic Musicology at Hamburg University. He has published widely on timing in perception and performance, expressiveness, attention and movement in music and beyond. His 5.5-years research project “Slow Motion: Transformation of Musical Time in Perception and Performance” was awarded a consolidator grant from the European Research Council, and members of his research team have won prestigious prizes at national and international conferences.

He is President of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), a member of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), and the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research (SEMPRE). His new book on "Performing Time", co-edited with Justin London, is due to be published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2023. He is an active reviewer for numerous international funding bodies and journals, and serves in the boards of key journals in the field.