This five-day series of workshops, masterclasses, and music clinics was hosted by the Wits Music Department (University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg) as well as two associated and prominent South African music academies: the CAFCA School (The University of Pretoria, Mamelodi) and the Music Academy of Gauteng, founded by Dr Johnny Mekoa (Benoni). Clinics were hosted […]
In April 2023, I taught for four days at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla-La Mancha (CSMCLM) in the city of Albacete, in south-eastern Spain. Raquel Violero Casero, who several years ago attended one of my masterclasses, is now professor for viola at the Conservatorio and invited me to give a masterclass there as
“Theatre is therapy.” In the weeklong masterclass held by professor of stage directing Anna Maria Krassnigg in Tel Aviv, this maxim was confirmed many times over. In May 2023, the professor from the Max Reinhardt Seminar was invited by the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University to hold a master class for acting
Schnitzler’s “Anatol” in Tel Aviv Read More »
From 16 to 18 April 2023, I was invited to the Ljubljana Academy of Music, Slovenia, as a guest lecturer on instrumentation and to hold instructional rehearsals. Miha Rogina, who teaches saxophone at the academy and also studied conducting at the mdw, directs the school’s wind orchestra. Prof. Rogina invited me to join two conducting
“The City of Dragons”—or rather: “The City of Beautiful Bridges” Read More »
Roozbeh Nafisi is a PhD student in musicology at the mdw. In April 2022, his PhD short-term mobility took him to the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn. Roozbeh chose Tallinn in order to conduct research into the kannel, a traditional Estonian instrument.
Immersion in Estonian Culture Read More »
In April 2023 mdw faculty Axel Petri-Preis taught at the École d´été en médiation de la musique / Summer School on Music Mediation on the campus of the Orford Musique, about a two-hour drive from Montreal. mdw students Hannah Eberle and Sara Glanzer were nominated for taking part in the unique summer school.
Teaching music mediation in Canada Read More »
Our adventure in Iceland was scheduled to take place in 2020. Me and my colleague Tanya Aspelmeier, Professor for voice at the Antonio Salieri Department, had our whole trip planned out and our masterclass at the Iceland University of the Arts was completely organized. Of course, the pandemic had other ideas about how we would
Women composers of German Lied in the Romantic Period Read More »
For several years, I have been interested in finding out more about the master’s programme in Wind Orchestra Conducting and Orchestration for Wind Orchestra at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano and experiencing first-hand its approaches, philosophy, and study programmes. From February 9 to 11, 2023, I finally had the opportunity to visit my colleague
A high level and a friendly atmosphere Read More »
Antonia Länger, Doris Neubacher, and Magdalena Auer are three mdw music education students. They travelled to Potsdam, Germany, to take part in the international Summer School 2022, organised by the University of Potsdam. Together with other students and professors, they tried to answer the question: How can we as (soon-to-be) teachers implement the SDGs in our teaching?
International summer school 2022 Read More »
An Erasmus teaching visit to the Högskolan för Scen och Musik (Academy of Music and Drama) in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 23 to 26 May 2022 At the invitation of Tobias Granmo, professor of violin and director of the Chamber Music Institute at the academy, I held a three-day workshop in non-idiomatic improvisation for students studying
First warm days in southern Sweden Read More »
