For one week, Ulaanbaatar became a meeting place for the global jazz community. At the 36th IASJ Jazz Meeting, students and faculty from many countries performed, learned, and exchanged ideas. The mdw was represented by a delegation of three students and two faculty members. The mdw delegation set out on Saturday, 4 July 2026, traveling
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This year’s Dancecult Research Network conference (DC26) took place from 14 to 15 May 2026 in Prague and focused on “Heritage, Memory and Community in Electronic Music and Dance Cultures” (EDMC for short), drawing scholarly attention to “who defines and holds cultural memory … and what terminologies, narratives, and inequalities shape the way we understand
My Erasmus staff mobility at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (KMH) began on 26 May 2026 with an introductory tour through the institution led by my host, Jon Dahlkvist, Concert Producer at the KMH. From the very first moment, I was deeply impressed by the atmosphere of the institution, the openness of the people working
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From 17 to 22 May, 2026, the week-long rotating Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) “Cultural and Social Well-Being – Identity and Participation” took place at the University of Vechta (Germany). This BIP was held in Finland last year with other students and could move to Vienna next year. Thirty-five students from eight universities in various countries
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In April 2026, trombonist, composer, and conductor Markus Geiselhart, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Popular Music at the mdw and drummer and conductor David Panzl, Senior Lecturer at the Leonard Bernstein Department for Wind and Percussion Instruments at the mdw, travelled to Brazil for a ten-day artistic and pedagogical exchange. The trip combined concerts,
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The movement educator and filmmaker Gerburg Fuchs (Berlin) visited the mdw at the end of January 2026 as an incoming expert to present her documentary film Rhythmische Räume – Hellerau, ein Ort der Moderne at the Arthouse Cinema. Beginning in 1909, Hellerau/Dresden was a centre for a new kind of design and a new architectural
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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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