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Nordic Academy

At the end of March/beginning of April, 2019, I was given an unusual, multifaceted task as part of the Erasmus Teaching Mobility programme: Maja Sipola, the Vice Rector for International Affairs at the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga and thus also responsible for the Erasmus programmes, had contacted me in January via our Office of International Affairs

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Conducting Masterclass with Alejandro Posada, Columbia

We conducting students from the mdw were very much looking forward to the visit by the Columbian conductor and mdw alumnus Alejandro Posada. He conducted the mdw’s Webern Symphony Orchestra in November 2019 as part of the “Concierto de Música Latinoamericana” (concert of Latin American music). Working and interacting with Maestro Posada was very inspiring

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The Quest for Passion

Our trip to India coming all the way from the “famous European culture” but also as a human being was definitely a life-changing experience! And exactly that was supposed to be the goal of this wonderful project by Marialena Fernandes. The motto is “QUEST FOR PASSION”: We’ve been searching for the goal of playing music,

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Blazing New Paths on the Neva

Erasmus+ projects in Russia have until now been less frequent than in other countries, which makes it particularly pleasant to look back on the successful new joint project by the mdw and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Why Russia? Is it because of the language or the writing system that mobility to Russia has been

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Concert in Hiroshima

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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On a Fulbright at the mdw

This has never been so true as for this soprano who freshly graduated from a US conservatory. My name is Theodora Nestorova, and I am studying on a Fulbright scholarship at Vienna’s mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts) in the 2018/19 academic year. I am in the MA Lied und Oratorium programme under the

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