On 22 May 2018, pianist Paul Badura-Skoda was awarded honorary membership in the mdw.

Digital Art Compositing at Film Academy Vienna

Lead Voice and Speech at the Max Reinhardt Seminar

In no case should having the opportunity to take a playful approach to music be left to chance or depend on the musical interest of parents and teachers. And in this spirit, we’ve devoted the following pages to the significance of music education in its infinitely many facets.

Nestroy Award winner Felix Hafner, the author Marie Luise Lehner and Stefan Mendl, two-time Echo Klassik Award winner, talk about the significance of criticism for society.

Just where the term comes from etymologically, how artists deal with criticism, and why music criticism often devolves into mere music journalism.

In December 2017, a concert of scholarship recipients at the mdw’s Penzing location saw the rehearsal stage [Probebühne] renamed “Anny Felbermayer Probebühne”.

It’s sometimes all so simple, and then it seems horribly complicated. Sometimes it seems overemphasised, and then it seems like it’s the very point of everything.