Siglind Bruhn, born in Hamburg and with a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna (Austria), is a music analyst, concert pianist, and interdisciplinary researcher. From 1993 to 2018 she was a full-time research associate at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, where she was responsible for “Music in interdisciplinary dialogue,” and where she continues as a life-long affliliate. In addition she served, from 2002 to 2010, as Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Christianity and the Arts, for the period 2004-2009, as chercheur invité at the Sorbonne’s Institut d’esthétique des arts contemporains, and during the years 2014-2018, as Guest Professor for Music of the 20th and 21st centuries at the Music Academies in Kraków and Katowice, Poland.

       She is the author of more than 40 book-length monographs, most of them in the field of 20th-century music’s relationship to literature, art, and religion. In 2001, she was elected to the European Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Linnaeus University (Sweden).