Clarinettist and mdw student Xiaocheng Wang studied for one semester at the Lucerne School of Music and a year at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. “I wanted to experience different countries and thus also different sound traditions and musical approaches”, says Xiaocheng about his choice. He is currently in his final semester at the mdw […]
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At the beginning of the new academic year, one enjoys looking back on projects of the past semester that were very enriching. I would thus like to report on my visit to the Mahidol College of Music in Bangkok, Thailand, along with Christian Altenburger last February and, as project director, at the same time express
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This spring, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility programme, teaching at the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland. I was invited by the fantastic teacher, composer, and conductor Michał Janocha to work together with his students and their orchestra. This experience was divided into two exciting phases, each
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On the initiative of Prof. Markus Harm, the Department of Popular Music (ipop) at the mdw took part in the European Jazz Workshop this year for the first time. The European Jazz Workshop is part of a “Blended Intensive Program” through Erasmus+. The project was launched several years ago on the initiative of the Norwegian
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At the invitation of Prof. Sonja Stibi, I made my second visit to Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater (HMTM) from 16 to 18 May as part of an Erasmus Teaching Mobility. The Teaching Mobility took place together with students from Munich and Vienna as part of the inter-university course titled “Theorie und Praxis von
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For the second time after 2023, I taught at the Summer School on Music Mediation at the Université de Montréal as part of an Erasmus Teaching Mobility project. This intensive week was held from 6 to 10 May at the Cité-des-Hospitalières, formerly Montreal’s oldest hospital, which the city now makes available to cultural and social
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My Erasmus adventure took me for two very intense and enriching days to the German-French border. After an eight-hour and fairly unproblematic train journey from Vienna to Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg), I was able to experience for myself the beauty of this small city. The most striking impression of the Karlsruhe University of Music I had (and
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On a recent trip for the mdw, I had a two day stopover in Doha, Qatar where I had the opportunity to get to know a little about the rich culture and history of the country and to visit the Qatar Music Academy. The modern, elegant metropolis of Doha has burst forth in just a
The 13th annual SEADOM, Southeast Asian Directors of Music, Congress took place at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from March 7-9, 2024. The Congress hotels were located at the Sunway Pyramid, Malayia’s first themed shopping mall, a sprawling complex which, with a retail floor area exceeding 400,000 m2, is literally twice the size of
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The master class and concert at the Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie were very nice and enriching experiences. On the first evening, I played four of the five Beethoven cello sonatas (which we also performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus two weeks later) together with my colleague, cellist Matthias Gredler, in a more than
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