“I was impressed by how profoundly the patients were touched by the music,” says Olesia Vepryk, who as part of her Erasmus+ semester at the mdw attended music therapy sessions in a Vienna clinic. She now incorporates her collected knowledge and experience into her music therapy work as a psychologist in a hospital in Lviv, […]
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My “wunderbare” experience at Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil (Institut für musikalische Akustik – Wiener Klangstil, henceforth “the Institut”) at the mdw took place in October 2024, when funding from the ERASMUS+ program gave me the opportunity to spend three weeks collaborating with David Weigl, a long-term colleague and co-author who I have
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The Colombian pianist Ana María Orduz-Espinal teaches at the University of Antioquia, in her hometown of Medellín, Colombia, and is the founder of the Pianissimo Foundation. This organisation has the mission of promoting wider access to piano studies and the career development of pianists in Colombia. In June 2024, Ana María completed an Erasmus+ Teaching
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My Erasmus+ teaching period at the mdw is now several weeks in the past. In October 2024, I spent a week as a guest with the class of Professor Franz-Josef Hauser, who teaches classical piano and piano practicum in the mdw’s Ludwig van Beethoven Department of Piano in Music Education. We already knew each other through
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Upon arrival, I met with my supervisor, Edith Lienbacher, and discussed our planned research. During the Easter break, I made use of this time to interview fifteen Thai singers who were educated in Austria and already have a career. Each interview took twenty-five minutes to over two hours, and most of the interviews took place
Benjamin Konjicija, 24 years old, spent the summer semester 2021 at the mdw at the Filmakademie. He grew up in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina called Fojnica, not far from Sarajevo. Currently, Benjamin lives in Sarajevo and is a fourth-year student at the Dramaturgy Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo,
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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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 »
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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