mentees 2022
Mentoring-programme for artists at the mdw who aspire to a university career (women, inter* and non-binary persons)
Anna Guggenberger, BA MA studied tuba concert subject (Bachelor's and Master's degrees) and IGP (Bachelor's degree) at the University of Art in Graz and at the University of Music in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been teaching tuba and tenor horn at music schools in Lower Austria (Retz, Hollabrunn and Klosterneuburg) and since the winter semester of 2019 she has been teaching the subjects of teaching practice and didactics for brass instruments as well as “leadership” at the “Franz Schubert Institute for Wind and Percussion Instruments in Music Education”. Children’s Wind Orchestra.” In 2017, Anna Guggenberger and her colleagues founded the brass quintet “quinTTTonic”, which has been on stage with various programs ever since. Further artistic activities: regular sound recordings with the Synchron Stage Orchestra, Klagenfurt City Theater, incidental music ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. https://www.mdw.ac.at/fsi/mag-a-anna-guggenberger/
Mag.a Katharina Hörmann was born in Wiener Neustadt in 1995 and received her first lessons on the Viennese oboe at the age of eight. In 2010 she was admitted to the mdw, where she studied with Professors Harald Hörth and Klaus Lienbacher Preparatory course and concert studies, the latter of which she completed with honors in 2021. Katharina Hörmann is the winner of numerous competitions, including the winner of the Casino Austria Rising Star Awards. After Hörmann gained experience in well-known orchestras, such as the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, she is now successful as a soloist and chamber musician. As a featured artist at Jeunesse in the 2021/2022 season, numerous concerts await you, including in the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus. In addition to her artistic work, Katharina Hörmann teaches the Viennese oboe at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School. https://www.katharinahoermann.com/
Mag.a Dorothy Khadem-Missagh, BA, hailed as a “breath of fresh air” by Gramophone magazine, is an Austrian pianist. In international demand as a soloist and chamber musician, her performances have taken her to renowned stages such as the Vienna Music Association, Vienna Konzerthaus, Styriarte Graz, Liszt Festival Raiding, Mosel Music Festival, Philharmonic Luxembourg and many others. as well as collaboration with important orchestras. She is a multiple winner of the International Beethoven Competition Bonn and her solo debut album “Beethoven&Zeuner” was nominated in several categories for the Opus Klassik. She is a lecturer at the mdw and teaches master courses internationally. Dorothy Khadem-Missagh is a founding member of the Philharmonic Trio Vision, which thrilled the international specialist press with its recently released CD “Auftakt”. As initiator and artistic director, she is responsible for the “Beethoven Spring” festival, which has taken place annually since 2020. www.dorothy-khadem-missagh.com
Mag.art. Marlene Lacherstorfer, Bakk.art., born in Upper Austria in 1982, has been a freelance musician/bassist and music and movement teacher/rhythmics teacher since 2005. Teaching since 2010 in the areas of movement accompaniment and improvisation, inclusive band as well as practice and didactics of inclusive ensemble direction at the mdw. From 2010 - 2016 development and artistic direction of the All Stars Band Inclusive, concerts, teaching and workshop activities at home and abroad. Artistic activities (among others): Musical direction of the Vienna Festival Week opening at Rathausplatz 2019 with a guest performance at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg; over 40 studio recordings and almost 2000 concerts in Europe, USA, Russia, Mexico, Peru and Turkey with formations such as ALMA, Clueso, Ernst Molden & Willi Resetarits, Meena, Pressyes, Soap & Skin, Sharktank, Trouble Over Tokyo, Velojet and ZOË. Awards & nominations (selection): Prima la musica creative competition for composition/electronics 2nd place (2003), BMKOES Diversitas Prize and Lebenshilfe Prize for All Stars Inclusive Band (2016), Viennese song composition competition together with Voodoo Jürgens 3rd place (2020 ) and much more. http://marlenelacherstorfer.com/
Mag.a Jera H. Petriček was born in Slovenia, where she completed university studies in French and Russian in 2010. In 2011 she moved to Vienna, where she studied orchestral conducting with Prof. Simeon Pironkoff at the University of Music and Performing Arts (mdw) in 2018. In 2017 she founded the Slovenian Chamber Orchestra Vienna, in which established Slovenian musicians play together with students. In autumn 2018 she was employed as musical assistant to choir director Thomas Lang at the Vienna State Opera. In 2019 she took over the artistic direction of the Mödlinger Symphonic Orchestra for autumn and New Year's Eve 2019. In 2020 she became assistant conductor at the Maribor Opera. Since 2021 she has been studying PhD (musicology with a focus on female conductors) with mentor Prof. Dr. Melanie Unseld at the mdw. She has been working as a conductor at the Volkstheater Vienna since 2022. https://www.jerapetricek.com/
Mag.a Elisabeth Plank presents the harp as a versatile and fascinating instrument, with an unusual repertoire and a wide stylistic range. As an internationally sought-after soloist, she gives concerts with the most important event organizers worldwide and with renowned orchestras, and Elisabeth Plank inspires the international specialist press with her CDs. Her tireless efforts to sharpen and expand the profile of the harp enrich the repertoire not only with rediscoveries, but also with numerous new compositions. Elisabeth Plank researches Paul Hindemith's "Sonata for Harp" (Publications for Schott, American Harp Journal, Dutch Harp Bulletin; lecture recitals) and the historical double pedal harp. The founder of the "Vienna Harp Days" is a lecturer at the mdw and teaches international master classes worldwide. https://www.elisabethplank.com/
Mag.a Kathrin Resetarits works as an author, dramaturge, director and actress, lives in Vienna. Artistic assistant to Michael Haneke since 2000. Senior lecturer at the Vienna Film Academy in the screenwriting and dramaturgy department, guest lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) Berlin. Lectures and workshops on thematically bound or constellative storytelling for filmmakers in Austria and Germany. Founding member of FC GLORIA Women's Networking Film Selection of current works: Screenplay: Licht Kinofilm A/D 2017, Director: Barbara Albert, Christmas ORF TV film 2022 (in production) Director: Mirjam Unger, Arman T. Riahi, Dramaturgy: Quo vadis, Aida? Movie 2020 Director and screenplay: Jasmila Žbanić, Western movie D 2017, Director and screenplay: Valeska Grisebach, Actor: L'animale A 2017, Director Katharina Mückstein, Artistic assistance: Happy End F/A 2017, Director: Michael Haneke, Co-director : Michael A 2011, Director: Markus Schleinzer, Official Competition Cannes, Book: Birds are Visiting, Czernin Verlag https://www.filmakademie.wien/de/author/kathrin-resetarits/
The cellist Mag.a Christine Roider loves and lives the diversity of her profession: as a chamber musician in the Trio Artio, as a member of the cello quartet cellharmonics, as an orchestra musician in well-known orchestras and as a cello teacher and music educator. She completed her studies with Michael Sanderling in Frankfurt am Main and with Reinhard Latzko in Vienna. Studying instrumental pedagogy with Bruno Weinmeister complements her training. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Carinthian Summer, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, among others. In addition, Christine Roider regularly performs in well-known ensembles such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Wiener Collage. As a cello teacher, she teaches as assistant to Prof. Reinhard Latzko at the Vienna University of Music and at the Musikum Salzburg Stadt. She is also passionate about music education and has already worked with Ela Baumann and Lilian Genn, among others. https://www.trioartio.com/de/about-us/
The Dresden graduate, Diplom-Mus.-Päd. Gabriele Rösel studied solo singing and vocal pedagogy at the Dresden University of Music. She made her debut at the Dresden State Operetta at the age of twenty. After completing her studies, she was hired as an ensemble member at this theater and over 17 years worked on a wide range of roles in opera, operetta and musicals. Further engagements took her to over 17 theaters in German-speaking and international countries. Her repertoire now includes more than 60 roles. Gabriele Rösel also works as a song, concert and oratorio singer. She sang at many festivals and was a welcome guest with orchestras such as: E.g. the Vogtlandphilharmonie, the Lausitzphilharmonie, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the Elblandphilharmonie. Since 2012 she has been singing regularly on luxury cruises in the Hapag Lloyd fleet and has traveled worldwide from Antarctica to the South Seas. Gabriele Rösel also showed her versatility in the crossover area of the 'Queen Classic Night' project of the rock band "The Great Pretender". http://gabrieleroesel.de/
Martina Stückler, MA, born in Wolfsberg im Lavanttal in 1990, discovered her love for the saxophone at the age of nine. The Carinthian woman completed her saxophone studies and a master's degree in instrumental pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Oto Vhrovnik and Barbara Strack-Hanisch and at the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten with Johan van der Linden with highest honors. Since 2019 she has been Barbara Strack-Hanisch's assistant at the MDW and also teaches at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School in Vienna. Martina has achieved numerous competition successes, for example at Allegro Vivo, International Music Competition Svirel, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, Alpen-Adria Competition and Rising Stars Grand Prix Berlin. As part of this, she performed in the Berlin Philharmonic. She was also a soloist with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Carpe Diem Synfonieorkest, Riga Chamber Winds, and many more. employed. As an orchestral musician, she can be heard regularly with the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Martina is a member of the AUREUM Saxophone Quartet. https://www.martinastueckler.com/
Mag.a Iva Zabkar has been working as a composer for film and media for more than 10 years. She has composed the music for various feature films, television films, commercials and numerous short films. Projects she has worked on have been shown and won awards at countless festivals around the world; her “Tatort” debut “Rebecca,” directed by Umut Dag, reached almost 11 million viewers. Iva Zabkar teaches at the Popakademie/JSBM music school, is co-producer of the electronic art pop project iNANA and kotomaki and co-founder of the composer collective track15-female composers collective. Since April 2021 she has had an assistant position in the composition department of the mdw (majoring in media composition and applied music) at Univ. Prof.in Mag.a art Judit Varga, MA and teaches media composition with a particular focus on film music. http://www.ivazabkar.com/