AXEL PETRI-PREIS

Axel Petri-Preis is a senior scientist and deputy head at the Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Making (IMP) of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He studied music education and German philology 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.
His research currently focuses on the education and further training of (classical) musicians in relation to Musikvermittlung (community engagement and education work) and on community engagement in classical music life. Together with Johannes Voit he is currently working on the publication of the first handbook for Musikvermittlung.
He has been active in the field of Musikvermittlung internationally for more than ten years, and his projects have received several awards. He has developed new concert formats, conducted workshops and pre-concert talks for various target groups, moderateed concerts, coached orchestras and ensembles, and designed program booklets. For the 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.
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.