Chairs

 

Sarah Chaker

Sarah Chaker studied musicology and German at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, where she also completed her doctorate in music. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Music Sociology at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In her research, she focuses on street music, on the history, theories and methods of music sociology, on popular music (in particular extreme metal), on musical practices in youth cultures and and scenes as well as on Musikvermittlung (i.e., music education, music mediation). With regard to the latter, she is especially interested in observing the increasing processes of institutionalisation and professionalisation in this specific artistic-educational field. In 2022, together with Axel Petri-Preis, she published the anthology Tuning up! The Innovative Potential of Musikvermittlung (Bielefeld: transcript, open access).

 

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 Education (IMP) at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is speaker of the Forum Musikvermittlung and on the advisory board for the Plattform Musikvermittlung Österreich and the netzwerk junge ohren.
He studied music education, German philology and musicology in Vienna and then worked as a freelance music mediator for Wien Modern, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, Philharmonie Luxemburg and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, among others. At Neue Oper Wien he was responsible for the program books for many years and in 2011 founded junge oper wien - a participatory music theater for young people - which he has directed ever since. He has received several awards for his projects, which include new concert formats, community dance projects, workshops, discussion formats and much more. His current research focuses on the education and training of musicians with regard to music mediation, the convictions and aims of education managers at orchestras, and the social-transformative potential of music mediation. Axel Petri-Preis has given guest lectures at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, the Anton Bruckner Private University, the Central European University, the University of Cologne and the Sibelius Academy.  Last year, two books by him were published by transcript: Musikvermittlung lernen. Analysen zur Aus- und Weiterbildung von Musiker_innen and, together with Sarah Chaker, Tuning up! The Innovative Potential of Musikvermittlung. In the fall of 2023, the Handbuch Musikvermittlung will be published, which he is editing together with Johannes Voit.

 

Constanze Wimmer

Constanze Wimmer is professor for Audience Engagement at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She studied musicology, journalism and arts management, and holds a PhD in music pedagogy from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has worked in the fields of audience engagement, audience development and musical dramaturgy. As a project developer, she collaborates with numerous international orchestras, concert halls and festivals. Since spring 2020 she holds the position of Vice Rector for Academic and International Affairs at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

 

Esther Planton

Intensive ballet and musical training brought Esther Planton, born in Carinthia, already at the age of 5 on stage, but with the study of applied musicology the planned artistic career changed at short notice. Through her professions as a musician, dancer, actress and presenter she fi nally found her way back to the stage and ultimately identifi ed her occupation in music mediation.
Latest positions include the Jeunesse, the Musikverein Vienna, the Grafenegg Festival, the Beethoven Philharmonie, the Tonkunstler Orchestra, Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Collegium Carinthia and the Haus der Musik in vienna.

 

Annemarie Mitterbäck

Annemarie Mitterbäck Freelance dramaturge, music mediator and cultural producer.Conception, dramaturgy & realisation of transcultural music and art projects in diverse social contexts.
In 2017, she founded MusicScapes, a collective dedicated to a contemporary, transcultural music language and the participatory negotiation process of social diversity. MusicScapes opens up participation in new, experimental art and music to a wider audience. www.musicscapes.at 2006-2016 Project leadership/music education at the Berliner Philharmoniker, Jeunesse, Klangforum Wien and since 2022 head of community music/community engagement at the Musiktheatertage Wien. Cooperations and projects with Zukunft@BPhil/Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall NYC/ Berlin in Lights Festival, Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Arcana Festival/ regional X, Festival St.Gallen, Wiener Festwochen, Jeunesse, RSO Vienna and Wiener Konzerthaus. Winner of the YEAH! Young EARopean Award of the netzwerk junge ohren 2011

 

Michael Huber

Michael Huber studied sociology and education at the University of Vienna. He graduated in 1998 with a thesis on Hubert von Goisern and the music industry. In 2006, he was awarded his PhD for the dissertation “Kultursoziographie in Gemeinde, Stadt und Raum.” He completed his habilitation with the treatise “Musikhören im Zeitalter Web 2.0” in 2012. Michael Huber is a board member of the Austrian Music Council (ÖMR) and of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA). Work and Research Areas: Music reception in the digital mediamorphosis, Structures of Austrian musical life, Music socialization

 

Bernhard König

The composer, interaction artist and author Bernhard König (www.schraege-musik.de) has been conducting research on the interactions between music and climate for several years. Other focal points of his work are intercultural, inclusive and intergenerational encounters with an through music.

 

Michael Göllner

Michael Göllner studied instrumental education (main instrument: flute) and music education at the Detmold University of Music. He worked for many years as a lecturer at music schools and schools and as a research assistant at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the research network project AdaptiMus (Adaptivity of Learning Situations in Music Lessons and School Ensembles). In 2017, he completed his PhD study which was awarded the research prize of the Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung (AMPF) and published in the series Perspektiven musikpädagogischer Forschung. After a substitute professorship in music education at the University of Koblenz-Landau, he was offered the instrumental education professorship at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts in 2018 and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2022.
Michael Göllner's work at the IMP focuses on music education research using qualitative-empirical methods, in addition to being responsible for coordinating the IGP department and participating in the study commission. Previous work has focused on aspects of interprofessional collaboration between music schools and schools (for example, in the area of class music making, dealing with heterogeneity in music (school) teaching, or the professional convictions of (music school) teachers). Further research interests focus on aspects of biographical learning in the context of cultural participation as well as the importance of research-based learning in music school teacher education.
Since 2019 Michael Göllner is co-editor of the internationally oriented open access journal Beiträge empirischer Musikpädagogik (b:em), since 2020 he is board member of the Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung (AMPF).

 

Judith McGregor

Judith McGregor studied instrumental pedagogy (Viola) at the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and also completed the master’s course “Musikvermittlung – Musik im Kontext” at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Since October 2022 she has been a university assistant in the department of instrumental and vocal pedagogy at the Institute for Music Pedagogical Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Making in Vienna. Since her student days she has taught at music schools in Lower Austria, and as part of her teaching activities (violin, viola, chamber music, music school orchestra), numerous projects have been carried out in cooperation with compulsory schools, external artists and regional and national cooperation partners. As a freelance Violist and Musikvermittlerin, she has been working in Vienna with various ensembles and Orchestras for many years. 
Since 2020 she has been doing her doctorate in music pedagogy at the mdw and is currently working on her dissertation project on the subject of "Musikvermittlung in an Instrumental Pedagogical Context". Her research interest is in particular the attitude and action orientation of pedagogues, who see themselves as being located in instrumental pedagogy as well as in Musikvermittlung.
 

Rainer Prokop

Rainer Prokop, sociologist, is senior scientist in the Department of Music Sociology at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. His current research focuses on music labour markets, career trajectories and study-to-work transitions of classically trained musicians, higher music education, and practices of valuation at higher music education institutions.