JURY

Ela Baumann (freelance director)

Trained at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Ela Baumann always strives to combine music and dance in her own directorial works.
In her music theater productions for orchestras and instrumental ensembles, she blurs the boundaries between musical and scenic play to the point of consistently choreographed orchestral performances (among others Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Symphonieorchester des bayrischen Rundfunks, Stegreif Orchester, Chorus sine nomine, Quatour beat).
As a choreographer, Ela Baumann works in teams with directors on productions that give dance a special place: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor – Nicolai, Theater Erfurt; Barbe Bleue – Offenbach, Opera Zuid Maastricht, The Brussels Requiem – Moody, La Monnaie Brussel; Der Turm –UA Lenners, Luxemburg; Systrar – Franzs, Stadsteater Uppsala.
Her great passion is music and dance theater for children. Her pieces are shown internationally and her work takes her to institutions such as the Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Cologne Opera, Bregenz Festival, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Opéra nationale de Lorraine, Vienna Konzerthaus, Lucerne Festival, Philharmonie Cologne, Washington Kennedy Center, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Luxembourg.
As a member of the company Kopla bunz asbl, she takes the freedom to follow her own artistic paths.
 

Axel Petri-Preis (mdw)

Axel Petri-Preis is a researcher and teacher at the IMP of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He studied music education and German language and literature as well as musicology. In 2006/07 he was a Fulbright Teaching Assistant at Bard College, NY. 2012-2014 he was a fellow of the Masterclass on Music Education, an excellence initiative of the Körber Foundation Hamburg. 2021 he received his PhD in music education.
As a researcher, he is currently working on collaborative projects between educational and cultural institutions, innovative potentials of Musikvermittlung, and learning trajectories of musicians engaging in Musikvermittlung. He is currently working with Johannes Voit on the publication of the first handbook for Musikvermittlung.
In the field of Musikvermittlung he develops new concert formats, conducts workshops and pre-concert talks for various target groups, moderates concerts, coaches orchestras and ensembles, and designs program booklets. For Neue Oper Wien he developed the highly acclaimed music theater education program junge oper wien starting in 2010. He also conceived the first Musikvermittlung formats for the Wien Modern Festival starting in 2010. He received further commissions from Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wiener Konzerthaus, Jeunesse, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Philharmonie Luxemburg, Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich and many more. His projects have been awarded the Projekt Europa Prize, the Teacher's Award and the Aviso Prize, as well as nominated for the junge ohren preis and the Orte des Respekts.
Axel Petri-Preis is, together with Irena Müller-Brozovic, spokesman of the Forum Musikvermittlung at Universities and Conservatoires as well as advisory board member of the netzwerk junge ohren and the Plattform Musikvermittlung Österreich.
 

Mira Possert (Wiener Konzerthaus)

Mira Possert has served as Education Manager at the Wiener Konzerthaus since 2018. While attending secondary school at the Musikgymnasium Graz, she completed a 10-year study of the violin at the University of Graz Department of Music as part of a specialised program for gifted pupils. During this time, she also worked at the Graz Opera as junior assistant to the director, Stefan Herheim. Since earning her degree in Musicology at the University of Vienna, Mira has worked in several positions for various institutions, including the Wiener Taschenoper, ORF III, the Berlin-based radio station multicult.fm, and the German national opera house Unter den Linden in Berlin, where she was asked to return to assume a full-time position as music educator during the 2017/18 season. At the Wiener Konzerthaus, she is responsible for organizing concerts and events for children, families, and young adults, as well as for conceptualizing projects geared towards increased community involvement and inclusivity.

 

Viola Schmitzer (STEGREIF.orchester)

Viola Maria Schmitzer was born in 1991 in Rottweil and began playing the horn at the age of 9. In 2012, after an internship at the Junge Oper Stuttgart, she began studying "Music and Movement“ at the UdK Berlin (until 2016). Since summer 2015 she is a founding member of the STEGREIF.orchester. Since 2016 she has been involved in the further development of various concert and workshop formats of the orchestra as dramaturg, since 2017 as stage director and since 2020 as head of education. Besides her work in the orchestra Viola sings and performs with her band "die Schlangenknaben", regularly plays horn in the theater production "Fragen an Charlotte" at the Cargo Theater Freiburg and with the collective "Glanz & Krawall" Berlin and directs youth dance, music and orchestra projects. She is always on the lookout for spatial concepts that enable movement and encounter and make music particularly tangible.


 

Petra Stump-Linshalm (mdw)

Petra Stump-Linshalm studied clarinet at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and bass clarinet at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Petra plays in various ensembles and as a soloist she pays attention not only to the classical repertoire, but also of contemporary and improvised music with a focus on contemporary music. Dedicatee of numerous premieres as she continues to work with composers such as Pierluigi Billone, Chaya Czernowin, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Gander, Karlheinz Stockhausen among others. For the Duo Stump- Linshalm thus far over 130 works were composed. Since quite some years she composes herself and her works are accepted with great interest.
Winning various awards she also pays attention to record chamber music on NAXOS, KAIROS, ein_klang records, Gramola, god records and the Stockhausen Edition. In 2018, the highly acclaimed CD “FANTASY STUDIES” with compositions by Petra Stump-Linshalm was released by orlando records. Her works have been performed at festivals and places such as Dark Music Days in Reykjavik / IS, Musikverein Vienna / A, the Basklarinet Festijn Amsterdam / NL, the Styriarte Graz / A, the CityProms Leeuwarden / NL, the ClarinetFest Oostende / BE and others. All works are published by Apoll Edition in Vienna.
Petra Stump-Linshalm and Heinz-Peter Linshalm are the editors of a clarinet tutor called “clarinet update – Neue Musik für junge Klarinettisten” published by Verlag Doblinger.
Presenting contemporary and classical music to children in concerts and workshops supplements the artist’s scope of work.
Since 2012 Petra Stump-Linshalm is a senoir lecturer of chamber music at the Joseph Haydn Institute of Chamber Music and Special Ensembles at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
www.stump-linshalm.com