In my real life, I am a music theory and ear training lecturer at two universities in Germany. I’ve also dabbled in YouTube before, with some mixed output, covering a couple of virtual choir arrangements, thoroughbass and/or „face expression“ analyses and so on: https://www.youtube.com/@jonaswolfmusic1775

I was born in 1993 and grew up in the South West of Germany. Until the age of 14, I wasn’t really into music, but through serendipity, particularly my school music teacher and the support of my parents, passion flared and I developed the urge to make music the central part of my life.

At Karlsruhe University of Music, I found a good place to make this plan come true: I enrolled into music pedagogy („Schulmusik“) with main subject recorder (with Karel van Steenhoven) and orchestral conducting (with Virginie Auvray and Stefan Ottersbach). Within the broad study program, the music theory related classes soon turned out to be my absolute favourites, especially since they were handled very practically (e.g. no dry 4 part writing exercises in harmony class but rather solving things directly at the piano, and also tasks to make period compositions). This lead me to enroll into the music theory bachelor program, which I was lucky to be guided through by my main subject teachers Edith Metzner, Ralph Bernardy and Michael Moriz.

When my main subject teacher Ralph Bernardy was appointed to a professorship at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and I only had done renaissance music for one semester, I made the decision to apply for a music theory master program in Basel (also the discovery of the YouTube channel earlymusicsources was pretty inspiring). I studied there from 2020 to 2022 with Johannes Menke and Florian Vogt, and it was during this time that I gained a lot of experience both in writing period compositions and producing videos with choral arrangements. It would take a couple of years however until I finally decided to combine these two genres and turn it into a serious business.