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Masterclass and Artistic Research in Medellín and Bogotá

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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Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference

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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“On a Teacher Mobility, You Are an Ambassador for the mdw”

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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Inspiring Encounters in the Far North

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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Erasmus+ Staff Mobility – My Stay at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam

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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Four days in Weimar at the 77th Annual Conference of the German Musicological Society 2025

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

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Between Mountains and Ideas: Reflections from the PEA Conference in Merano

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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Connecting Research, Dialogue, and People: Reflections on the AMPF Conference in Freiburg

From 23 to 26 September 2025, I had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung und Praxis (AMPF) in Freiburg—an inspiring gathering that brought together around 190 music education scholars, mainly from Germany and Austria, with some contributions from other countries. Supported by the mdw International Mobility Funding for

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Participation and Identity – a BIP Erasmus Programme in Northeastern Finland

From 30 May to 5 June 2025, I—along with ten mdw students of instrumental and vocal education and of music education—attended the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Cultural and Social Well-Being – Identity and Participation at Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Kuopio, in northeastern Finland. There, we met Finnish, Lithuanian, and German students from these

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