Past events
Musicians of the Linksgespielt community are on the road with lectures, workshops and training courses for symposia, associations, music universities and schools in Germany and abroad. Find out about our past events below. Upcoming events may be found here.
Mar 19, 2025 Salzburg (AT)
Workshop: I'll play that with my left hand! - Handedness in music-making
Karoline Renner at Salzburg Mozarteum University's Intermezzo Project Days
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Information and exercises are used to draw attention to the topic of right- and left-handedness and the effects on instrumental playing, singing and conducting.
Feb 28, 2025 Kalsdorf bei Graz (AT)
Workshop: The Left-handed Piano
Dipl. med. Heidi Schneider on mirrored keyboards
Audience: Teachers for keyboard instruments
Host: Kalsdorf Music School
Contents:
- Historic outline of mirrored keyboards / Mangeot piano
- Handedness in everyday life
- Handedness in music-making and especially at the piano
- How do I recognize my and my students' handedness?
- How can I best support left-handed students on the piano today?
- Current procurement options for mirrored keyboard instruments
- There is the opportunity to try out and experiment with the left-handed function on the Blüthner ProX 88 digital piano.
Feb 07, 2025 Dortmund (DE)
Lecture with discussion: What if left-handers make music “with their left hand”?
Dr. Andrea Arnoldussen speaking to the teaching staff of the Dortmund Municipal Music School
Jan 11, 2025 Ismaning (DE)
Workshop: Inverted instruments
Laila Kirchner and Ulrike Scheuchl at the 30th Waldorf Music Conference
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In this lecture, wind, plucked, string and keyboard instruments (choroi and classical) will be presented in mirrored versions. By means of demonstration and personal experimentation, we would like to make it possible to experience the advantages they offer to left-handed people. Background information on handedness and short testimonials from musicians will be presented. Left- and right-handers are welcome!
About us: Laila Kirchner, who studied Waldorf music education and is an instrumental teacher for cello, is left-handed and plays various musical instruments on both sides.
Ulrike Scheuchl, who studied to be an instrumental teacher for clarinet and recorder, is also left-handed and has been playing all her instruments inverted for almost 20 years.
Nov 17, 2024 online
Further training: Left-handedness in music making
Annual training of the European Association for Dispokinesis – download details (pdf)
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with Ulrike Scheuchl (clarinet & recorder), Erika Uggowitzer (flute), Christine Vogel (double bass) and Sophia Klinke (violin)
Nov 17, 2024 Linz (AT)
Lecture: What if left-handers make music with their left hand?
Dr. Andrea Arnoldussen at the EPTA Austria annual congress
Oct 19, 2024 Cologne (DE)
Lecture: Inverted instrumental playing for left-handers - spleen or prevention?
Sep 21, 2024 Staufenberg (DE)
Lecture: “Lefty” instruments in the past & present
Annual general meeting of the Hessian guild of musical instrument makers
Aug 02, 2024 Bayreuth (DE)
Workshop: Key mirroring of the Transducer Grand Piano
Dipl. med. Heidi Schneider at the the Young Artists Festival Bayreuth / Intercultural Piano Pedagogy Project 2024) – external link
May 19, 2024 Vienna (AT)
Lecture: Why left-handed flutes?
Erika Uggowitzer at the Austrian Flute Festival 2024
Apr 20, 2024 Oberursel (DE)
Further training at the Hesse Association of German Music Schools (VdM) – There is an increasing focus on music lessons appropriate for left-handers. More and more teachers are becoming aware that the motor, technical, musical, tonal and health problems of left-handed pupils can often be improved by playing left-handed instruments (built the other way round). Elsewhere, however, there are still many uncertainties: Where can I get such an instrument? How is this supposed to work in the orchestra? How can I teach left-handed players at all? The aim of this training course is to show the opportunities and possibilities of left-handed playing on various instruments, to clarify open questions and to dispel existing reservations with concrete tips and experience. – external link
Apr 11-13, 2024 Vienna (AT)
Symposium: Body, Mind & Music
Symposium of the ÖGfMM - Austrian Society for Music and Medicine with various lectures and workshop regarding handedness:
- Prof. Isabel Gabbe: „Linksgespie(ge)lt!“
- Erika Uggowitzer: „Musical instruments for left-handers - anyone need them?“
- Sophia Klinke: „The underestimated role of handedness in music-making“
- Christine Vogel: „Positive effects of re-training processes due to handedness in professional classical musicians“
- Dipl. med. Heidi Schneider: „Handedness and piano playing“
- Erika Uggowitzer: „Handedness parcour - physical experiences on the topic of handedness“ (Workshop)
- Sophia Klinke & Christine Vogel: „Violin right, bow left? - Handedness aspects of string instruments in theory and practice“ (Workshop)
- Dipl. med. Heidi Schneider: „Left-handed piano - introducing the mirrored keyboard in piano lessons for left-handers“ (Workshop)
- Ulrike Scheuchl: „The importance of handedness when playing woodwind instruments using the example of the clarinet and recorder“ (Workshop)
Mar 23, 2024 Husum (DE)
Handedness-oriented music education
Further training by Peer Oehlschlägel & Judith Bremer at the Schleswig-Holstein State Association of Music Schools –
The term handedness refers to the preferred use of one hand for fine motor activities.
It has so far received little attention in instrumental pedagogy. However, taking handedness into account plays an important role for health, learning success and emotional expression when playing an instrument.
This lecture, followed by a practical workshop, will focus on how we as music teachers can recognize, respect and promote the innate handedness of our pupils.
Since June 2023, the Kreismusikschule Nordfriesland has been certified as a “healthy music school”. This event fulfills our claim to implement health-promoting measures for teachers and students at our music school.
Sep 15-16, 2023 Hamburg (DE)
Left-handedness and instrumental playing
Specialist conference 2023 of left-handers' consultants with the method of Dr. Johanna Barbara Sattler
- Lecture by Karoline Renner: “Left-handed or right-handed - differences in body awareness when making music”
- Lecture by Dr. Andrea Arnoldussen: “Musical instruments and left-handedness - questions and answers for practice”
- Panel discussion & workshop with the initiators of Linksgespielt
Jun 7, 2022 Frankfurt (DE)
Lecture: "auf verkehrte Art" - laterality in the history of instrumental playing
as part of the lecture series on historical performance practice for the HIP degree programs at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
Oct 1, 2021 online
Lecture: "Auf verkehrte Art" - on playing music left-handed in history
Online lecture for the Historical Performance Practice Working Group Aachen
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“Bow right, viola left” is the motto for string instruments, "left hand up, right hand down" for woodwind instruments and exactly the opposite for the piano. Today, the distribution of hands on instruments is strictly standardized and based on centuries-old traditions. - Or is it?
This lecture sheds light on the history of this standardization, presents 'left-hand playing' exceptions and encourages a discussion of handedness and instrumental playing.
