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 […]
Pack warm socks and head out! Read More »
Benjamin Konjicija, 24 years old, spent the summer semester 2021 at the mdw at the Filmakademie. He grew up in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina called Fojnica, not far from Sarajevo. Currently, Benjamin lives in Sarajevo and is a fourth-year student at the Dramaturgy Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo,
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
“It is exciting to open up new perspectives for young people” Read More »
The mdw is famous for its impeccable reputation, prestigious alumni and international student body. Moving to a new country to study music requires a firm determination. Classes, concerts & working with musicians from different countries … here is our story of a quartet’s first semester at mdw (in 2018/19). The first few days. . .
Tales from the Vienna Woods Read More »
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
Gaining New Perspectives on Life Read More »
Francesco Appollonio, 22 years old, comes from Capua – a small city, rich in history, in the province of Caserta. He plays the piano and is currently enrolled in the first year of the Master programme at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples. How many semesters have you already spent at the mdw?
Pia Rossi, 24 years old, comes from San Giorgio del Sannio, a town in the province of Benevento in the Campania region (Italy). Benevento is a city famous for its outstanding historical artistic and archaeological heritage due to the successive rulerships over the course of history (Longobards, Samnites, Romans). She graduated in Organ Studies at
“When I play it, I immerse myself in beautiful soundscapes…” Read More »
Sauli Saarinen from Finland studies Conducting and is spending the 2020/21 winter semester at the mdw. In the International Blog he shares his experiences with us.
From Finland to mdw Read More »
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 »
