The mdw is famous for its impeccable reputation, prestigious alumni and international student body. Moving to a new country to study music requires a firm determination. Classes, concerts & working with musicians from different countries … here is our story of a quartet’s first semester at mdw (in 2018/19). The first few days. . . […]
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Michaela Raab, mdw graduate in music education and pedagogy in the mdw’s master’s programme (IGP), with flute as her main instrument, studied at Zürich’s Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) from February 2020 to the end of January 2021. She completed her studies in March 2021. In addition to flute, she also studied music education in the
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Francesco Appollonio, 22 years old, comes from Capua – a small city, rich in history, in the province of Caserta. He plays the piano and is currently enrolled in the first year of the Master programme at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples. How many semesters have you already spent at the mdw?
Pia Rossi, 24 years old, comes from San Giorgio del Sannio, a town in the province of Benevento in the Campania region (Italy). Benevento is a city famous for its outstanding historical artistic and archaeological heritage due to the successive rulerships over the course of history (Longobards, Samnites, Romans). She graduated in Organ Studies at
“When I play it, I immerse myself in beautiful soundscapes…” Read More »
My time in Japan was unbelievably enriching. My name is Linda Maria Rodriguez Breña. I study music education and pedagogy in the mdw’s bachelor’s programme, with voice as my major course of study. In my fifth semester at the mdw, I had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at the Kunitachi College of Music
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Sauli Saarinen from Finland studies Conducting and is spending the 2020/21 winter semester at the mdw. In the International Blog he shares his experiences with us.
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I know the title sounds promising: after all, desperate times call for desperate measures, even if it only concerns improvisation, continuo and harpsichord playing. I was invited by Prof. Miklavcic of the Academy of Music at the University of Ljubljana to teach improvisation, harpsichord and continuo. Right at the beginning, he said that the second
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In August, after a short night in a plane (and 32 °C in Austria), I arrived in Buenos Aires. Winter, cold, alone, no Spanish, and no place to live. So, I was perfectly prepared.
Having arrived in chaos, otherwise known as Buenos Aires, I headed off straight away to look at two apartments I had heard about from acquaintances who had studied here a while ago.
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The past months were a great challenge for everyone. Covid-19 caused a great deal of confusion, triggered panic, and tested our ability to act in times of a lack of planning. Schools and universities were closed, flights cancelled, classes moved online, and stays abroad cut short. Shortly after the beginning of my second semester in
In January 2020, I was able to spend six days in Tallin as part of the Modernizing European Higher Music Education through Improvisation project. I had the pleasure of being there as a student representative of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna along with the teachers Manon Winter and Burkhart Stangl.
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