At the beginning of March 2026, I attended the 15th annual SEADOM (Southeast Asian Directors of Music) Congress in Singapore even though I’m neither Southeast Asian nor a director of a professional music school. Here’s why. Bencoolen is the name of the neighborhood where 2 of the 3 arts education institutions that hosted the 15th […]
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“I’ve always wanted to live for a time in the US. I am fascinated by the typically American way of life that one knows from all the movies and series,” says Linda Oppelmayer, who studies music education, with guitar as her main instrument, at the mdw. After high school, she had intended to go to
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At the end of August 2025, I visited Columbia along with mdw faculty Johannes Kretz for ten days. First, we taught in Medellín at the private Universidad EAFIT and then in Bogotá at the public Conservatorio de Música – Universidad Nacional de Colombia, also providing insights into artistic research at the mdw. At both universities,
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Organised by the ESE-IPVC School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, the ID+ Research Institute for Design Media and Culture, in cooperation with the IPCA Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, the Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference (PMIC) took place between October 23 and 24 2025 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
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Daniel Serrano is a composer and teaches music theory in the mdw’s Leonard Bernstein Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments. He studied violin and chamber music at the Musikene in San Sebastián and completed his composition studies with Michael Jarrell and music theory with Gesine Schröder at the mdw. As a teacher at the mdw,
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At the invitation of Ståle Tvete Vollan, director of the Communication Department at the Norges musikkhøgskole (NMH), my colleagues, Barbara Stieber and Seraina Brugger, and I travelled to Oslo in October 2025 to exchange ideas about the work processes and structures, technical systems and infrastructures, and current developments in the communication departments of our respective
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From 4 to 7 November 2025, I visited the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as part of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility programme. My first day began with a conversation with Raphaela Danksagmüller, head of the university’s Booking Agency and Lunch Concerts. This agency places students with event organisers all over Amsterdam—for performances in churches, museums, and concert
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Alen Pavlić studies saxophone pedagogy in the mdw’s bachelor’s programme in the ipop – Department of Popular Music. Together with mdw student Felix Loidl, he took part this summer in the International Big Band Workshop in Mongolia. This workshop was held for the fourth time, organised by the German musician and teacher Martin Zenker, who
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From 6 to 9 October 2025, I took part in the 77th Annual Conference of the German Musicological Society (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, GfM) at the University of Music Franz Liszt (HfM) Weimar together with the team from the Austrian Science Fund research project Musician Families: Constellations and Concepts. The trip was funded by the mdw’s
The journey to Merano already felt like a prelude to the conference itself: first by train to Munich, then by Flixbus winding its way up and down narrow mountain roads, past steep gorges and picturesque villages. The rhythm of the curves and the sudden views of alpine valleys set the stage for what awaited me—a
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