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 »
Since 2013, the theatre division of the DEARTS (Departamento des Artes) at Brazil’s UFRN (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) and the Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics division of the Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and Music Physiology at the mdw have maintained various forms of exchange programmes; they were interrupted by COVID but
My Teaching in Natal/Brazil Read More »
Maxim Tzekov has studied at the mdw with Lieke Te Winkel since 2015. His path took him from the Programme for Gifted Children to the Preparatory Programme and then finally to studying violin performance. Through the Young Masters Programme of the mdw talent lab and the Johann Sebastian Bach Musikschule, which supports talented young musicians
With the EMMA scholarship to Chile Read More »
Paul Hartinger spent a semester abroad at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam during the 2021/22 winter semester. He is in the mdw’s MA programme in Music Education for Voice and Instruments, bass – Popular Music. He was the first mdw Erasmus student to study in the Pop Department of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (part of the
Finding motivation and inspiration in Amsterdam Read More »
