Eckart Altenmüller

Life

Born in Rottweil, Altenmüller studied medicine in Eberhard-Karls-Universität and Hôtel-Dieu in Paris from 1974 to 1981 and music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg from 1979 to 1985 (mainly flute). After receiving his doctorate in medicine from the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, he also trained as a specialist in neurology.

Since 1994, Altenmüller has been a university professor and director of the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

Since 2005, Altenmüller has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013, he was awarded the Lower Saxony Science Prize.

From 2005 to 2011, he was president and vice-president from 2011 to 2018, of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin.