Who teaches here?
- Prof. Udo Dahmen: Artistic Director, Department Head PMD, PM and WM, Drums, Bodypercussion, Producing
- Prof. Dr. David-Emil Wickström: Degree Program Administrator PMD and WM, History of Popular Music, Theory & Methods of Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology
Bağlama
- Kemal Dinç, Department chief: Bağlama, Bandcoaching
- Erdem Şimşek: Bağlama
- Kenan Tülek: Bağlama, Transcultural music education
- Guest lecturers: Erkan Oğur, Sinan Ajjıldız, Yusuf Arslan
Arabic & Turkish Oud
- Samir Mansour, Department chief: Oud, Makam theory, Musical forms and compositions, Ensemble
- Yurdal Tokcan: Oud
- Mehmet Ungan: Oud
- Guest lecturers: Ahmad Al Khatib, Negar Booban, Fadhel Boubaker, Ufuk Kaan İcli, Mustafa Said, Roman Bunka
Kanun
- Muhittin Kemal: Departmentchief: Kanun, Music theory, Composition
- Guest lecturers: Aytaç Doğan, Ali Shaker, Ahmet Baran
Percussion
Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern/ Indian/ West-African Percussion
- Murat Coşkun, Department chief: Percussion, Ensemble
- Firas Hassan, Department chief: Percussion, Bandcoaching, Ensemble
- Pape Samory Seck, Department chief: West-African Percussion
- Guest lecturers: Trilok Gurtu, Rhani Krija, Pete Lockett, Dr. Rohan Krishnamurthy, Joss Turnbull, Nora Thiele
Indian Music
- Hindol Deb, Departmentchief: Indian Music/ Sitar, Indian music theory
Music Theory/ Composition
- Muhittin Kemal, Department chief: Kanun, Music theory, Composition
- Samir Mansour, Department chief: Oud, Makam theory, Musical forms and compositions, Ensemble
- Dr. Martin Greve: Makam theory
- Cengiz Onural: Composition, Ensemble
- Hindol Deb, Department chief: Indian Music/ Sitar, Indian music theory
- Pape Samory Seck, Department chief: West-African Percussion
- Prof. Alexander Paeffgen, Department Chief Music theory/ Composition, Keyboard, Bandcoaching
- Christoph Sauer: Bodypercussion
- Daniel Jakobi: Bodypercussion
- Firas Hassan: Bodypercussion
- Murat Coşkun: Bodypercussion
Further Lecturers
- Mike Herting, Ensemble, Musical forms and compositions
- Johannes Stange: Rehearsalband
- Michael Koschorreck: Guitar, Bandcoaching
- Prof. Mathias "Maze" Leber: Department Chief Keyboard, Bandcoaching
- Gagey Mrozeck: Gitarrist, Producer, Songwriter, Bandcoaching
- Ross Daly: Musical forms and compositions
- Dr. Cornelia Gruber: Music worldwide – Field research, Music from Madagaskar
- Prof. José Cortijo: Music worldwide – Afrocuban Music
- Prof. Michael Küttner: Music worldwide – African Music
- Gudrun Walther: Music worldwide – Traditional Music of Ireland and Germany
- Jerome Weiss: Music worlwide – Music of the Sinti and Roma
- Ashok Nair: Music of the world, Indian Music
- Prof. Axel Schwarz: Department Chief Popular Music Education, Keyboard, Bandcoaching
- Danijela Albrecht: Transcultural music education
- Rainer Buschmann: Transcultural music education
- Ali Ungan: Transcultural music education
- Lars Riethmüller: Multimedia