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Philipp Gerschlauer

Institut für Musik

Philipp Gerschlauer is a saxophonist, composer, and artistic researcher specializing in microtonality in jazz harmony and improvisation. He holds a Master of Music from New York University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of the Arts Berlin and has been teaching at universities since 2020. His artistic-scientific doctoral project explores alternative tuning systems in bebop, focusing on microtonal harmony and melody.

His research and teaching combine analytical, performative, and experimental approaches in music theory, improvisation, and composition. He has published extensively on these topics and has received numerous grants and scholarships, including funding from the Austrian Science Fund (PEEK), the German Federal Government, the Berlin Senate, and the German Study Center in Venice for his composition research fellowship.

Beyond academia, he has collaborated internationally as a soloist and ensemble member, with a strong focus on expanding the harmonic and melodic vocabulary of jazz through microtonality. His album and band project “Mikrojazz” (RareNoise Records), his early work with his band “Besaxung”, as well as his collaborations in the 2020s with Gebhard Ullmann “12 + 1 Murals” (Between the Lines Records) and Georg Vogel, are recognized as significant contributions to this field.

Gerschlauer has extensive experience in third-party funding acquisition and leads or participates in interdisciplinary research projects, including the development of new microtonal instruments and technologies for music theory education (such as a PEEK-funded project at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Science Fund [FWF]).

His teaching is characterized by a strong integration of theory and practice, encouraging students to explore new sonic concepts and develop artistic research methodologies in their own work.