20 years of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine (FIM) - Milestones in music physiology & musicians' medicine

Contributors

Program

In the academic year 2025-2026, the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine(FIM) will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. We will celebrate this from Thursday, May 7 to Saturday, May 9, 2026 at the Collegeof Music Freiburg as part of the 24th Symposium of the German Society for Music Physiology & Musicians' Medicine(DGfMM). We cordially invite you to attend! Please reserve the days in your 2026 calendar now.

The opening of the congress will take place on May 7, 2026 at 2 pm, the end of the symposium is planned for May 9, also at 2 pm, so that you can use both days as arrival and departure days. Lectures, poster presentations, workshops, a ceremony and a party are planned. We are already looking forward to seeing you there!

Click here to register: https://dgfmm.org/veranstaltungen/symposium-2026. You will also find the current program there!

To the symposium:

The symposium offers a wide range of insights into the field of music physiology & musician's medicine and provides inspiration for your own involvement with the subject area. We therefore warmly welcome musicians of all genres from the fields of amateur and professional music, lecturers, researchers, doctors and therapists as well as all interested parties.

In lectures, discussion rounds, workshops, poster presentations and a panel discussion, we would like to set the milestones of our field together with you. This includes the training of young musicians in music physiology as well as the therapeutic care of singers and instrumentalists in music medicine consultations. The symposium contributions on research range from basic vocal physiology research to movement analysis in instrumentalists, stage fright, resilience and communication processes in ensemble playing to neuroscientific topics and much more. With the poster session, we would like to give you the opportunity to present your own projects and get to know each other. In the workshops, you can experience many topics in practice and discuss case studies from musicians' medical practice. Participants will also have the opportunity to take part in various working groups and get to know the work of the JUMMs (Young Forum).

The Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine (FIM) will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2026. We are delighted that a birthday concert will take place on Thursday evening, at which musicians from our own music academy, but also from other renowned ensembles, will perform "birthday serenades" of various kinds. You can look forward to a top-class and varied program! On Friday there will be a ceremony with lectures and a musical finale and afterwards we look forward to celebrating with you with live music and dancing!

Organizer:
German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine e.V.
Web: https://dgfmm.org

in cooperation with
Freiburger Institut für Musikermedizin
and College of Music Freiburg

Scientific direction:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Claudia Spahn, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Richter
Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine - College of Music Freiburg, Medical Faculty University Freiburg, University Hospital Freiburg

Organizing team:
Prof. Dr. Anna Immerz, Andreas Heideker, Dr. Dagmar Danko, PD Dr. Manfred Nusseck, Dr. Jesper Hohagen, Thomas Müller, Anna-Lena Schuppe (Freiburg), Dr. Janina Kruse (Munich), Helfried Böhme (Dresden)