I was delighted to be able to return to the Department of Music Acoustics (Institut für musikalische Akustik — Wiener Klangstil, henceforth, “the Institute”) in May 2026, having visited here for the first time in October 2024. Again funded by the ERASMUS+ program, I was able to deliver teaching, build professional networks, and collaborate with […]
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For the past 20 years, I’ve been teaching musical theatre acting, writing, and musicianship in the US. For one jam-packed week in May 2026, I had the immense pleasure of bringing some of that training to students in three different departments at mdw, a joyful exchange of cultures and techniques that fostered new connections between
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Maka Maya Virsaladze: Vienna is often described as the Mecca of classical music — a place where one feels as though time itself shifts, where the legends of great musical traditions seem vividly present, and where music becomes not only sound, but a space that carries us across dimensions of history, memory, and imagination. To
Georgian Music in Dialogue Read More »
“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
“Music is here for everyone” Read More »
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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