Rafaela Seywald is studying orchestral and choral conducting at the mdw, theoretically in her fifth year. At the moment, however, she is on leave, because since September 2021 she has been working as a stage-music conductor and prompter-conductor at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Rafaela is 27 years old and had the great pleasure of […]
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Do you know the feeling? Maybe you’re right in the middle of preparing for an exam or in an intensive rehearsal phase. Your to-do list seems endless. You are completely immersed in the musical and technical world of the upcoming performance. But isn’t something different? Is a certain tingling feeling missing? Something unforeseeable—perhaps a certain
Erasmus – and that during a pandemic? Read More »
Ioana Cristina Goicea joined the Fritz Kreisler Department of String Instruments, Harp and Guitar in October 2020 as a professor of violin. In June 2021 she held a master class at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iași, Romania’s fourth-largest city. Iași is located in the north-eastern part of the country and is
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Michaela Raab, mdw graduate in music education and pedagogy in the mdw’s master’s programme (IGP), with flute as her main instrument, studied at Zürich’s Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) from February 2020 to the end of January 2021. She completed her studies in March 2021. In addition to flute, she also studied music education in the
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My time in Japan was unbelievably enriching. My name is Linda Maria Rodriguez Breña. I study music education and pedagogy in the mdw’s bachelor’s programme, with voice as my major course of study. In my fifth semester at the mdw, I had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at the Kunitachi College of Music
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I know the title sounds promising: after all, desperate times call for desperate measures, even if it only concerns improvisation, continuo and harpsichord playing. I was invited by Prof. Miklavcic of the Academy of Music at the University of Ljubljana to teach improvisation, harpsichord and continuo. Right at the beginning, he said that the second
Harpsichord and Continuo Teacher Smuggled into Ljubljana, Slovenia! Read More »
In August, after a short night in a plane (and 32 °C in Austria), I arrived in Buenos Aires. Winter, cold, alone, no Spanish, and no place to live. So, I was perfectly prepared.
Having arrived in chaos, otherwise known as Buenos Aires, I headed off straight away to look at two apartments I had heard about from acquaintances who had studied here a while ago.
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The past months were a great challenge for everyone. Covid-19 caused a great deal of confusion, triggered panic, and tested our ability to act in times of a lack of planning. Schools and universities were closed, flights cancelled, classes moved online, and stays abroad cut short. Shortly after the beginning of my second semester in
In January 2020, I was able to spend six days in Tallin as part of the Modernizing European Higher Music Education through Improvisation project. I had the pleasure of being there as a student representative of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna along with the teachers Manon Winter and Burkhart Stangl.
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In November 2019, three conducting students from the mdw (Carlo Benedetto-Cimento, Alexey Mikhaylenko, and I) had the honour of being invited to participate in the “1st International Conducting Masterclass of the CCOM – Central Conservatory of Music Beijing and the mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna” in Beijing, China. This invitation was
