Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Diploma, Conservatorium van Amsterdam  
M.Mus. Royal Academy of Music London
M.F.A. Brandeis University  
B.M. Boston University  

Musikfonds e.V. FEBIII stipend mit Ensemble Extrakte, 2023
Musikfonds e.V. stipend, 2021, 2022, 2023
GEMA Neustart Kultur stipend, 2021

University of Pittsburgh Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013
University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms Committee Scholarship, 2011

Short Biography:

Jeremy Woodruff is a composer and researcher whose compositions and sound art are informed by his research in sound studies and ethnomusicology. He is Senior Scientist and Deputy Head of the Centre of Artistic Research (CEAR) at the University of Music and Performing arts Graz (KUG) and Guest Professor at Bard College Berlin. He is the Artistic Director of the Sonic Borderlines project with its Listening Series of three concerts funded by the initiative neue musik Berlin in 2024 and a new Listening Series upcoming in 2026. He was founder and previously Artistic Director of Berlin School of Sound. He is a founding member of Errant Sound and was a founding co-curator of the Dystopia Sound Art Biennial (https://www.dystopie-festival.net/). He is former Professor in Composition, Music Theory and Sound Studies at the Istanbul Technical University Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) 2016-2021 and former Lecturer in Composition at KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India. He is a skilled and versatile performer with multiple wind instruments and electronics. He has collaborated with various artists not only on sound art but also in video, dance theater and radio works, including with Marianna Simnett, Bani Abidi, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Meg Stuart and others. His radio show “Berlin School of Sound” can be heard every month on Colaboradio, Streaming on fr-bb.org, on digital radio DAB+ Kanal 7D - Berlin and DAB+ Kanal 12D - Brandenburg.

Jeremy Woodruff is currently leading his Discussique: Listening to Flowers, a social composition for 12 musicians, presented as part of Bloom, the annual exhibition of Graz’s Universalmuseum Joanneum (UMJ). The project’s first event, Planting, took place at the Graz Botanical Gardens; the second, Blooming, will be held at Schloss Eggenberg on 6 June; and the third, Re-seeding, will take place at Kunsthaus Graz on 26 September. All three events are part of an artistic research project for and with the public, sponsored by the UMJ and Kunsthaus, KUG and the City of Graz. Simultaneously, the partner project, Discussique: Listening to the Days will take place in May at the Akademie der Künste Berlin as part of Arnold Dreyblatt's Berlin-Karussell.

His sound art has been presented by RBB Kunst im Bau, in various galleries including KW Berlin, AD Gallery Bremen, Kasa Gallery Istanbul and Art Bangaluru in Bangalore, India and he has an upcoming group show at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2027. His concert works have been commissioned by Ensemble Extrakte, Sonic Borderlines, Ensemble Decibel (London), Hezarfen Ensemble (Istanbul), Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Deutschen Kammerorchester Berlin and others. His writings have been published by Klangzeitort (Berlin), Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture, Journal of Sonic Studies, KunstMusik, Positionen, Sruti Magazine, Verlag für Moderne Kunst(Nürnberg), Bloomsbury Press, Les Presses du Réel and by Errant Bodies Press. He is co-editor of the collected volume Haunted Soundscapes: Transcultural Perspectives on Sound, Music and Authority in Turkey published on Routledge, later in 2026.

www.jeremywoodruff.net 

https://doctorartium.kug.ac.at/kwds-neu/team/jeremy-woodruff

https://berlin.bard.edu/people/profiles/jeremy-woodruff