Deniz Peters (Dr.phil, MA) is Professor for Artistic Research in Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where he directs the Centre for Artistic Research and the Doctoral School for Artistic Research.

His research on musical dialogue, empathy, and improvisation often combines aesthetics and phenomenology with an experimental interpersonal piano practice, having worked with numerous international musicians, dancer-choreographers and visual artists. Another part of his research concerns methods, documentation, typology and epistemology of artistic research through music, most recently in the “The Epistemic Power of Music” Austrian Science Fund (FWF) research project. Peters appeared as keynote speaker, speaker, and performer at numerous international conferences on artistic research, philosophy, and musicology.

He was President of the Society for Artistic Research SAR (2019-2022). Publications include: a collected edition Bodily Expression in Electronic Music (Routledge); articles in Performance Research, Contemporary Music Review and Empirical Musicology Review; chapters in collections with Springer, Leuven UP, and Oxford UP; and a CD of findings (Leo Records), with five upcoming further CDs with Mariel Roberts Musa, Maria Gstättner, Simon Rose, Sophia Borges, Emma Lloyd, Stefan Östersjö and Thuy Thanh Nguyen.