Lydia Rilling

Lydia Rilling is a curator and musicologist specializing in contemporary music. Since 2022 she has been Artistic Director of Donaueschinger Musiktage. From 2016 to 2022, she was Chief Dramaturg at Philharmonie Luxembourg and directed the festival rainy days. Previously, she taught and conducted research in musicology at the University of Potsdam, prior to which she was invited as a visiting scholar to Columbia University in New York. As a writer, journalist and moderator she worked for institutions including Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Berliner Festspiele. She studied Musicology and Comparative Literature in Berlin, Paris, and St. Louis.