Dr. Jurth | Multilingual Coach
Dr. Friederike Jurth is a multilingual coach working with clients as a freelancer for Compita Consulting. Based in Germany and Spain, and originally from Germany’s capital city of Berlin, she began her musical education in early childhood, studying piano and violin at Berlin’s Particular College for Music and the Conservatory Hanns Eisler. Within her BA in musicology and history at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar/University Friedrich Schiller Jena, she spent a study year abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2010.
Friederike continued her academic career with a specialization in Latin American Studies as the UNESCO-Chair on Transcultural Music Studies of the University of Franz Liszt Weimar, and the Universidade Federal in Rio de Janeiro. Focusing on transcultural processes, she specialized in empirical research and fieldwork in the area of the Samba Schools and the famous Carnival from Rio de Janeiro during her Master’s and Ph.D.
As a scholarship holder from the Dissertation Research Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dr. Jurth completed several years of anthropological and ethnomusicological fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and joined the Samba School “Gres. Unidos de Vila Isabel” not only as a researcher but also as a violinist. Friederike presented her work in diverse lectures at universities such as the University of the Arts Berlin and the Humboldt University Berlin, in several published articles, and at international conferences in Rio de Janeiro, Brisbane, Tokyo, London, Luzern, and Tarragona. She graduated summa cum laude in 2020, with her thesis, titled “Da ideia ao Samba – From the idea to samba. The creative process of composition within the composers’ groups from the famous Samba Schools from Rio de Janeiro” will be published soon.
As an active researcher, Dr. Jurth is involved in several musicological projects such as the Global Music Database of Safar – Music from Afghanistan, and is now working on collaborations with the Musicological Departments from Madrid´s Universidade Complutense and Bangkok´s Mahidol University.
Friederike’s particular research interests are transcultural processes, Latin-American and global music studies, ethnomusicology, and anthropological studies with a focus on empirical research, fieldwork, and data analysis. Dr. Jurth can deliver services in German, English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is excited to coach students on their path to a doctoral degree.