Kateryna Schöning

Kateryna Schöning, born in Kharkiv in 1979, completed a broad range of studies in musicology, music theory, piano, philosophy, and art history at the Kharkiv State University of Arts. She was awarded her doctorate there in 2007 with a dissertation on the genre of the fantasia in the 16th century (supervised by Prof. Dr Ludmila Gigachova and consulted by Prof. Dr Thomas Schipperges). From 2008, she undertook research projects on instrumental music before 1600 at the HMT Leipzig, as well as on contemporary history and musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. Between 2016 and 2022, she led FWF-funded projects at the Department of Musicology at the University of Vienna (Lise Meitner and Elise Richter fellowships) focusing on solo instrumental music in the Southern German and Central European cultural regions and their humanist contexts. Since December 2022, she has been a Senior Scientist at the University of Vienna, where since March 2023 she has led the WEAVE project E-LAUTE, funded by the FWF, DFG, and SNF—a comprehensive digital edition of lute tablatures from the period 1450–1550. In October 2024, she completed her habilitation at the University of Vienna with the monograph Loci communes and 16th-century Tablatures in the German-speaking Region (published 2025). Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of instrumental music before 1600, particularly the intersection of music, humanism, and language, the interplay between manuscript and print culture, and the field of Digital Humanities in musicology with a focus on digital editions. In parallel, she devotes herself to the 19th-century reception of 16th-century instrumental music, currently resulting in an edition for Renaissance harp from the Carl Ferdinand Becker collection on the research platform of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.