Annette Ziegenmeyer graduated in school music, music education and artistic training with a major in recorder at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, as well as studying her second subject, French, at Leibniz University Hanover. In 2003 she received an artist and composer scholarship for a one-year stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and subsequently spent another year teaching recorder at the Conservatoire municipal de musique de Malakoff (Paris). After her traineeship (2006-2008) she worked as a teacher at the Gymnasium Stormarnschule (Ahrensburg) until 2015 and at the same time completed her doctorate in historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. After a two-year secondment to the European University of Flensburg (2013-2015), which she accepted in addition to her school teaching, she worked as an academic (senior) advisor for music education and music didactics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal from 2015 to 2020. Here she founded, among other things, the "KulturCampus Wuppertal", which continues to exist as a course and association. She turned down a call to the Anton Bruckner University in Linz (2018) and to the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (2020) and followed the call to a professorship for music education at the MHL in October 2020. Here she also heads the ZfL (Centre for Teacher Education) and represents the University of Music on the boards of the Alliance for Teacher Education and KMB.SH (Competence Centre for Music Education SH). Her areas of work are diverse and include the following: Composition pedagogy in school contexts, music in the penal system, community music/social work, project work in cultural education. Annette Ziegenmeyer has both national and international networks and is active in various associations and committees (e.g. Bundesverband Musikunterricht e.V., European Association for Music in Schools).