For the second time after 2023, I taught at the Summer School on Music Mediation at the Université de Montréal as part of an Erasmus Teaching Mobility project. This intensive week was held from 6 to 10 May at the Cité-des-Hospitalières, formerly Montreal’s oldest hospital, which the city now makes available to cultural and social […]
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My Erasmus adventure took me for two very intense and enriching days to the German-French border. After an eight-hour and fairly unproblematic train journey from Vienna to Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg), I was able to experience for myself the beauty of this small city. The most striking impression of the Karlsruhe University of Music I had (and
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On a recent trip for the mdw, I had a two day stopover in Doha, Qatar where I had the opportunity to get to know a little about the rich culture and history of the country and to visit the Qatar Music Academy. The modern, elegant metropolis of Doha has burst forth in just a
The 13th annual SEADOM, Southeast Asian Directors of Music, Congress took place at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from March 7-9, 2024. The Congress hotels were located at the Sunway Pyramid, Malayia’s first themed shopping mall, a sprawling complex which, with a retail floor area exceeding 400,000 m2, is literally twice the size of
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The master class and concert at the Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie were very nice and enriching experiences. On the first evening, I played four of the five Beethoven cello sonatas (which we also performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus two weeks later) together with my colleague, cellist Matthias Gredler, in a more than
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After being involved in the three-year Erasmus+ project “Eurhythmics in Education and Artistic Practice” (EEAP) from 2020 to 2023, I was invited in January 2024 by my colleague Prof. Eva Nivbrant Wedin to return to the KMH – Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm to teach eurhythmics and music pedagogy students in the field of inclusion. The
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In November 2023, I embarked on a captivating concert tour coupled with enriching teaching engagements across the breathtaking landscapes of Chile. This musical journey led me through the vibrant cities of Santiago, La Serena, Concepcion, and Valparaiso, where I had the opportunity to perform with my ensemble, the AUREUM Saxophone Quartet, in diverse concert places,
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I was invited by Anna Scheller and Elżbieta Korelus to teach and perform at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland (19–21 January 2024); it was my first time to teach as part of the Erasmus+ scheme, and it couldn’t have been a better experience.As I had been to Katowice already twice before—performing
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Dimitris Chandrakis, a professor at the University of Macedonia who studied violin in Vienna with Günter Pichler while I was a student as well, invited me for the second time to his home city of Thessaloniki. My reciprocal invitation to him to visit the mdw in 2020 unfortunately had to be cancelled due to Corona
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Ivan Beaufils studies music education at the mdw and completed two successive study-abroad programmes in piano pedagogy: first at the Conservatory of Music of the University of Sydney, and then at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). In between, he still had time for extensive travel and another training course. In summer 2022, Ivan
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