Our Team!

The importance of an educational institution, apart from outstanding students and the best infrastructural conditions, is primarily defined by the quality of teaching. To this end, the Department of Vocal Studies and Musical Theatere at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna has teachers of outstanding international artistic and pedagogical reputation. In view of a more flexible professional profile with an abundance of highly specialized sub-areas, modern training in the professional fields of singing can only take place as a team. In this respect, all colleagues are committed to participative collaboration and cooperation. The pluralism of opinions and didactic approaches represents a profile strength of the artistic and teaching enterprise, which is supported by the commitment to the free expression of opinion and the freedom of art and teaching.
For organizational support in artistic-pedagogical agendas, the subject areas of Applied Music Theory, Languages and Musicology (Speakter: Jürgen Tauber), Performance (Speaker: Ferdinando Chefalo), Singing (Speaker: Rainer Trost), Repetition (Speaker: Manfred Schiebel) Lied|Oratorio|Concert (Speaker: Justus Zeyen), Music Theater|Music Theater Direction (Speaker: Helen Malkowsky) and Administration (Speaker: Kerstin Pichler).

Karlheinz Hanser, Head and Dean of the Department