New teaching staff 2014

Lieke te Winkel

In October 2014, Lieke te Winkel received a permanent professorship for violin at the Fritz Kreisler Department of String Instruments, Harp and Guitar.

Te Winkel started her musical training at Kees Koelmans in Zwolle, Netherlands. At the age of sixteen, she won the International Locatelli Concours, 1999 she won the Nationaal Vioolconcours Oskar Back.

After studying in Freiburg with Rainer Kussmaul and in Amsterdam with Vesko Eschkenazy, she moved to Vienna. There, Gerhard Schulz strongly influenced her artistic development.

During her student days in Vienna, she was hired as concertmaster of the Musicians Orchestra of Lower Austria in 2007 and became the first concertmaster of this orchestra in 2014. As a soloist Lieke te Winkel worked with several conductors such as Shlomo Mintz, Thomas Hengelbrock, Helmut Zehetner, Nicholas Milton and Daniele Callegari.

As a chamber musician she performed at the Styriarte, the Warsaw Autumn, the Al Bustan Festival, the Accademy "Gustav Mahler", the International Music Seminar Prussia Cove and the Biennale di Venezia. Within the scope of these festivals she was working with artists such as Wolfram Christ, Noam Greenberg, Antoine Tamestit, Béatrice Muthelet, Dmitri Sitkovetsky and the Klangforum Wien.

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Alexander Swete

Since October 2014, Alexander Swete is the newly appointed professor for Guitar at the Fritz Kreisler Department of String Instruments, Harp and Guitar.

Born in Bregenz, Alexander Swete studied from 1980 to 1983 at the Conservatory of Bregenz and from 1984 to 1990 at the Vienna Music Academy with Konrad Ragossnig.

During his studies, he already achieved his first competition successes as prize winner in Havana / Cuba in 1988 and at the ARD Competition in Munich in 1989. In 1991 he won the first prize at the competition of Radio France in Paris.

Since then he has been touring throughout the whole world. He played on many important stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Royal Festival Hall London, Cologne Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein as well as at many major music festivals such as the Salzburg and Bregenz Festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg etc.

As a soloist he performed with renowned orchestras, as a chamber musician he worked with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, such as Tabea Zimmermann, Peter Schreier, Wolfgang Holzmayr, Manhattan String Quartet, Hugo Wolf Quartet, Klangforum Vienna etc.

After several years of teaching at the Conservatory of Feldkirch and at the Academy of Music Graz, he has been teaching at the mdw since 1998. He is also a frequent jury member at international guitar competitions and instructor of master classes in Austria and abroad.

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Martin Stegmayer

Since October 2014, Martin Stegmayer is the newly appointed professor for Digital Art-Compositing at the Department of Film and Television (Film Academy Vienna).

Stegmayer graduated from the HTL Mödling and completed the Bachelor Degree for Digital Film Making at SAE Institute in Vienna. In the years following his training, he worked as a Visual Effects (VFX) Allrounder, as Compositing Artist and VFX Supervisor.

Stegmayer's specialization in digital film led him to London, where he worked for the Moving Picture Company (MPC) as a compositing artist for films such as Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (2011) by Rob Marshall or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) by David Yates.

After a short time at Framestore, where he was active for the productions of War Horse (2011) by Steven Spielberg and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) by Tomas Alfredson, he worked at MPC shots for Wrath of the Titans (2012) by Jonathan Liebesman and moved to Digital Domain in Vancouver as a Senior Compositor in 2012. Since 2013 Stegmayer also worked as an Artist and VFX Supervisor at projects such as Blood Glacier (2013) by Marvin Kren and I see I see (2014) by the directors duo Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz.

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Markus Grassl

Since October 2014 Markus Grassl is the newly appointed professor for Musical Stylistics and Performance Practice at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies.  

Markus Grassl studied Music Science, Journalism, Philosophy and Law at the University of Vienna. He worked for the Institute of Legal History at the University of Vienna and for the Federal Ministry of Science and Research.

In 1993, Markus Grassl joined the mdw - first at the chair of music history, later at the Institute for Analysis, Theory and History of Music. With his habilitation thesis "Studies on the reception and performance history of early music in the 20th century" in 2010, he received the instructor licence for historical musicology.

In addition to his teaching and research activities at the mdw, he held teaching positions and a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna, the Danube University Krems and the Academy of Music in Stuttgart.

Aside from universities, Markus Grassl works for various domestic and foreign scientific and cultural institutions.

His research interests include the early instrumental music (15th to 17th century), French music and musical culture of the 17th and 18th century, the reception and performance history of early music and the history of Austrian music of the 20th century.

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Johannes Wildner

Since October 2014, Johannes Wildner is the newly appointed professor for Orchestral Conducting at the Department of Conducting.  

Johannes Wildner studied Conducting, Violin and Musicology at the mdw and in Parma, Italy.

His conducting style and his music-making was influenced strongly in his time for the Vienna Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera from 1985 to 1995.

After first head positions at the State Philharmonic Košice, Slovakia from 1990 to 1993, he took further positions as chief conductor e.g. at the Prague State Opera from 1994 to 1995, as first principal conductor of the Leipzig Opera from 1996 to 1998 and as General Music Director of the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia, Germany from 1997 by 2007.

From 2010 to 2013 Johannes Wildner was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Since 2013 he also directs the Opera Festival Opera Gars Castle in Lower Austria.

Johannes Wildner regularly conducts az major opera houses (Tokyo, Genoa, Verona, Leipzig, Graz, Salzburg, Prague, Zagreb) and many leading orchestras such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and many more. He is represented on more than 60 CDs, DVDs and videos.

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Birgit Ramsl

Since March 2014 Birgit Ramsl is the newly appointed professor for Flute at the Franz Schubert Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments in Music Education.  

Birgit Ramsl completed her pedagogy and concert studies at the mdw with honour. In addition to her training in Vienna she studied at the Academy for Music and Theatre in Munich, where she graduated with a master class diploma in 2004.

Since 2004 Birgit Ramsl is active as a solo flutist in the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper. Birgit Ramsl received numerous national and international awards and strongly advocates chamber music, in addition to her solo work. She is a member of Theophil Ensemble Vienna, the Ensemble XX. Century and the Ensemble Salzburg Soloists.

In addition, she appeared as a guest flutist in various recitals, orchestral and solo concerts at the Salzburg Festival, the Festival Latinoamericano of Música Caracas, the Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Carinthian Summer, the Diabelli Summer or the Halbturner Castle Concerts. She holds numerous master classes in Austria and abroad.

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Janusz Cichocki

Since March 2014 Janusz Cichocki is the newly appointed professor for Ensemble Work at the Department of Drama (Max Reinhardt Seminar).  

Janusz Cichocki completed his studies at the Acting Department of the School of Film, Theatre and Television in Lodz, Poland in 1977. In 1985 he moved to Berlin as a lecturer in drama at the Fritz-Kirchhoff acting school, at the Transform drama school and at the State Ballet School of Berlin. In 2013 he achieved a doctorate in the field of theatre arts.

Janusz Cichocki showed his acting skills in numerous plays as well as in film and television productions, including as an ensemble member in Teatr creature Berlin in The Cinnamon Shops by B. Schulz, directed by Andrej Woron, in the movie Fathers (2001), directed by Dani Levy, and in the TV production The Nervous Great Power (2012), directed by Bernd Fischerauer.

Under his own artistic direction the Fritz-Kirchhoff Theatre in Berlin showed his work Shadows based on texts by R. Pinckert, M. Waler, J. Genet and W. Shakespeare in 2013.

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Gianpaolo Evangelista

Since October 2013 Gianpaolo Evangelista is the newly appointed professor for Music Informatics at the Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education.  

Gianpaolo Evangelista began his academic career as a scientist and assistant professor of physics at the University Federico II in Naples, Italy. He matured as a Doctor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He does research on sound and music programming, as well as on development and analysis of musical instruments.

Gianpaolo Evangelista is constantly looking for new and applicable mathematical and technological ideas that contribute to the production and development of sound images. With Iannis Xenakis, composer and founder of the Parisian studios CeMaMu (Centre d'Etudes et de Mathématique Automatique Musicales), Gianpaolo Evangelista and a research team worked on the UPIC-machine (Informatique Unité Polyagogique), a computer-based music composition device.

Gianpaolo Evangelista is the author and co-author of over one hundred scientific publications. He taught electronics, computer architecture, digital audio and sound.

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Doris Ingrisch

Since October 2013 Doris Ingrisch is the newly appointed professor for Gender Studies at the Department of Culture Management and Gender Studies (IKM).  

Doris Ingrisch studied History, German language and literature studies und Sociology at the University of Vienna.

Since 1990 Doris Ingrisch is working on scientific projects, most recently within the scope gender studies, entitled "Art and Science in dialogue - Theoretical reflection and experimental test arrangements".

Doris Ingrisch had been a guest professor at the Institute of Culture Management and Culture Science from 2008 to 2011 until she was re-appointed as a professor of Gender Studies in 2011.

Together with Andrea Ellmeier and Claudia Steiner Walk-Preschl, Doris Ingrisch is the editor of the four-volume series mdw Gender Knowledge. Her research projects and publications include the areas of Gender and Cultural Studies with focus on science, art and gender, history of science, exile / emigration research and qualitative methods.

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