CURRENT NEWS

First concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, soloist and prizewinner of numerous violin competitions and former graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna,

Professor Anton Sorokow,

took over as Director of the Fritz Kreisler Institute at the mdw on 1st of October 2024!!!

We congratulate Prof. Sorokow on this honorable position and wish him every success in his new tasks during his term of office at the Fritz Kriesler Institute!!!

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We congratulate our viola students of the class of Prof. Thomas Selditz with winning the auditions!!!

Mrs. Momoko Aritomi (graduate and currently training assistant) has won the deputy position

in the solo viola section of the Tiroler Symphoniker Innsbruck!!!

Mr Nicolás Bernal-Montaña has passed his probationary year as solo violist at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt!!!!

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We congratulate our student, Mrs Diana-Cristina Dascal-Uifalean,

 Class Univ.-Prof. Anton Sorokow

for winning the audition with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra!!!!

  We congratulate our student, Ms. Lisa-Maria Sekine

(student of Prof. Lothar Strauss),

for winning the second prize

at the"International David Oistrakh Violin Competition 2023"

 Astana, Kazakhstan

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Univ.-Prof. Dalibor Karvai is our new violin professor at the Fritz Kreisler Institute from 01.11.2023!!!
Professor Karvai is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions and 1st concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Professor Karvai is constantly striving to explore innovative possibilities of violin technique and sound. His playing is characterized by extreme precision and flawless purity.
We are delighted to welcome such a high-caliber professor to our university.
Welcome to the mdw!!!

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We congratulate our violin student, Qingyan Lyu,

for the 1st prize

at the "Premio Franco Gulli Concorso Biennale Internazionale di Violino Competition"

(student of Mrs Anna Gutowska)

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Congratulations to our student, Mr. Mihajlo Durdevic, who won 1st place in the international guitar competition "Guitar Art Festival" in Belgrade!!!!

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We congratulate our violin students from the class of Prof. Ioana Cristina Goicea

with winning the competitions and auditions!!!

•     Emilia Lapko - won temporary contract in Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen
•     Katarina Kralj - won 2nd violin position in the Opera Ljubljana
•     Robert Einenkel - won auditions in the GMJO
•     Karla Kriz - won auditions in the GMJO

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We congratulate our student, Mrs. Seina Matsuoka (student of Prof. Frischenschlager and Prof. Schuhmayer), for winning the

First Prize at the "International Music Competition VŠMU

as well as another prize:
 "Best Interpretation of Slovak Composition" in Category II.

and the
Promotion Prize at the "X. Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition

and the
Jury Encouragement Prize
at the "8th Sendai International Music Competition"!!!

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Congratulations to our student, Ms. Karla Križ,

(student of Prof. Ioana Cristina Goicea) who won the audition with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra!!!

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We congratulate our student, Ms. Zala Eva Kocijancic

(student of Prof. Ioana Cristina Goicea), for winning the

First Prize, as well as the

EMCY-Prize

       at the International Competition for Young Musicians "Ohrid Pearls" in Macedonia!!!