Joseph Haydn Department of Chamber Music and Contemporary Music!

Welcome at the Website of the Joseph Haydn Department of Chamber Music and Contemporary Music!

 

The Joseph Haydn Department (IJH) was founded in 2002 and is regarded as an international leader in the field of chamber music education.

The Chamber Music programmes are intended for highly advanced instrumentalists who would like to place an extremely broad variety of chamber music repertoire at the centre of their artistic focus. Although admission to this programme is granted on an individual basis following an examination, pre-existing ensembles are welcome to apply!

 

All the experience you gain at the IJH in theoretical subjects and your instrumental major combines here, is checked for suitability and is memorized for practical knowledge.

Making music together with different people includes engaging with others, trusting one another, acting with and against each other, having a dialogue witch your instrument and particularly: telling stories.

Interpretation is storytelling of those narratives which the composers had left for us.

“Chamber Music - Early Music – Contemporary Music” – these are concepts that should help to organize our mind with all the unbelievable large variety of music already written.

For us, the interpreters, these concepts should never limit us in any way.

Whether your path leads to solo-artist, professional ensemble, Orchestra or an educational career – a profound training in chamber music is an essential basic for all of these pathways.

In general, working in an ensemble improves organization- and communication skills. Which is an essential ability for a musician.

 

The Joseph Haydn Department covers the compulsory courses in chamber music, early music and contemporary music for all musical and instrumental students at the mdw. The IJH looks after 600 Students every semester.

In addition the „künstlerische Betriebsbüro“(office) of the Joseph Haydn Department organizes regular large-scale projects such as the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition and the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) and negotiates the arrangements for ensembles for external events and various collaborations.

Workshops and projects with international participation also take place regularly in the areas of early music and contemporary music.

 

Following Studies are available at the Joseph-Haydn-Department:

Piano Chamber Music BA
MA Chamber Music (for Piano, String- and Windinstruments)
MA Contemporary Music Ensemble
ECMAster
Postgraduate Certificate in Chamber Music
Postgraduate Certificate in Contemporary Music Ensemble

 

Contacts:

 

Head of Department: Leonhard Paul
Deputy Head of Department
and Artistic Event Office: Mara Földi
Deputy Head of Department: Avedis Kouyoumdjian

Administration: Jutta Kornfeld

 

Location: Ungargasse 14, HP 09 - HP 13 1030 Wien
Postadress: Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
www.mdw.ac.at/ijh

 

Subdivision Chamber Music:
Head of Department: Leonhard Paul

Subdivision Contemporary Music:
Head of Department: Jean-Bernard Matter