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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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
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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A PhD short-term mobility took the three mdw students Caroline Gansterer-Heider, Constantin Luger, and Abigail Wagner to Cape Town, South Africa, for a week in March 2025. Their teacher Evelyn Annuß, Professor for Gender Studies, initiated the research trip. She and mdw teachers Isabel Frey and Philipp Hohmann held classes at the University of Cape
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My Erasmus trip at the beginning of May took me to Copenhagen for two exciting and enlightening days—to a city that can scarcely be surpassed in its diversity, openness, and cultural vitality. Already upon my arrival on Sunday, 4 May, I was able gain an initial impression of the city. It was a special day:
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For a master’s student studying music education, it is kind of difficult to study abroad, and the conditions for drawing up a learning agreement are challenging. However, there is the opportunity to go abroad as part of the master’s thesis, which I was able to do at the beginning of 2024. What follows is a
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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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