We (Naomi Luther, flute, and Martin Zayranov, violin) were selected to fly to Hiroshima to play the series of concerts held there every year to commemorate the atomic bomb attack on that city in the Second World War. This project is organised by the University of Hiroshima, from which a group of students also joined […]
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I would like to dedicate my essay to all those who are considering studying in Italy or are about to do it. A few words about me: My name is Gregor Eisenhut. I’m 22 years old and study voice in the mdw’s bachelor of arts programme. I thought for a long time about whether it
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Three cities (Bangalore, Mangalore, and Goa) that through 400 years of Portuguese influence are relatively familiar with European music. The people who live there attempt to come to terms with the thousand-year-old culture, interrupted by 450 years of European culture, and they are highly musical and are willing and able to take any melody and sing it back.
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Directly from Cape Town Airport we (Rupert Fankhauser and myself, Philipp Sageder) were fetched by Felicia Lesch and taken to Steenberg High School, to work with the High School Band. There were about 50 kids / teenagers in the age between 14 and 16 (winds, brass, percussion, drums and bass).
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A bit envious of all the things happening at Lüneburg University in the area of sustainability, and at the same time curious and excited about what ideas I could take back with me to the mdw: this is how my trip to Lüneburg – naturally with the German Federal Railways to save CO₂ – began.
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After my twelve-year stay in Vienna and long years of study at the mdw, I decided to move to Taiwan, my husband’s native country. And last year in Taipei, the Taiwanese capital, I had the opportunity to study for a year at the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) as an exchange student. I
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I always knew that I would take advantage of the opportunity to spend a year or semester abroad during my studies. Because South America had interested me even as a child, and because Europe was too close, it wasn’t difficult to chooses a continent. My fascination with Brazil became lodged in my brain.
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From 12 November to 3 December 2017, we participated in the “Musethica” in the Spanish city of Zaragoza (Saragossa) and in Vienna. Musethica was founded in 2012 in Saragossa by the violinist Avri Levitan. The project enables musicians to play many concerts that are held not on official stages but rather in the middle of
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Now the journey is over and it’s time to go back to “Europe”. Back to Europe. This sentence echoes softly, and a question poses itself quietly in my brain: Did I even really leave Europe? In a purely geographical sense, the Russian capital, with its 12.4 million inhabitants, lies in the European part of the
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My name is Robin Prischink. I have been studying music education at the mdw since 2010 and in 2013 began studying instrumental and vocal pedagogy as well. My main instrument is percussion (in popular music), and between the completion of my music education degree in January and the beginning of my student teaching in September,
No kangaroos in Austria Read More »
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