music inaudita is a student-organized initiative at the UdK Berlin that focuses on diversifying the “classical” music scene. We want to stage music by artists who have been overlooked by history due to gender, religion, social or national background, race, sexual identity, language, disabilities, or political views and anchor it in teaching and repertoire.
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inn.wien is a collective of young, classically trained musicians based in Vienna. With flexible lineups, they create extraordinary programs and interpret works from different genres. The ensemble is characterized above all by its chamber music-like performances and their creative openness. The musicians organize everything themselves. The inn.wien ensemble has already performed at renowned venues such as the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Wiener Musikverein, and Porgy & Bess. The coming season will bring debuts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the House of Music Budapest. In September 2024, the debut album “LOST INSIDE” was released, together with the jazz trio Drehwerk. The production “What on Earth!”, which premiered in 2024 – a staged concert performance for the whole family – was awarded the international YAM “young audience music award” in 2025.
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Rosie Perkins (Royal College of Music, BMus, MA, PhD) is Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music London (RCM). Part of the Centre for Performance Science, Rosie is a leading researcher in the area of music and mental health, where her research investigates two broad and intersecting areas: how music and the arts support individual and societal wellbeing, and how to optimise musicians’ wellbeing and career development. Rosie’s research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, British Academy, Dutch Research Council, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and has featured in a wide range of international journals and press. Alongside research and knowledge exchange, Rosie teaches across the RCM’s undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programmes and is the Programme Leader for the RCM’s groundbreaking MSc in Performance Science. Rosie is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA) and the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). In 2019, Rosie was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music (HonRCM), and in 2025, she became an Affiliate Researcher with the Jameel Arts and Health Lab.
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Tuulikki Laes (Sibelius Academy) is a University Researcher and Lecturer at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, and holds a Title of Docent in Musicology at the University of Helsinki. Currently, she is an Academy Research Fellow appointed by the Research Council of Finland (2023-2027), leading the research project “Performing the Political: Public Pedagogy in Higher Music Education.” Her research focuses on educational democracy, inclusion, policy and politics as well as systems thinking in(higher) music education. In 2018, she was a visiting scholar at IIASA (The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) in Vienna, Austria. Her latest publications include “The Transformative Politics of Music Education” (Routledge, 2025), co-edited with Gert Biesta and Heidi Westerlund. She also serves as Chair of the ISME Commission on Policy: Culture, Education and Media, and is a member of several other research and policy networks.
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Irina Kirchberg (Université de Montréal), a musicologist and sociologist, is the executive director of the Centre for Innovation and Applied Research in Arts and Social Engagement (Artenso). She produced the first Panorama des pratiques de médiation de la musique au Québec (2020), edited an issue of the Revue musicale de l'OICRM (2020) and an issue of Intersections (2025) dedicated to music mediation. In partnership with the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal, the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, and the COnservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, she recently produced a competency framework for the field. In Montréal, Irina Kirchberg co-directs the specialized higher education diploma (DESS) in Music mediation and the Etude Partenariale sur la Médiation de la Musique (EPMM). She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Music Mediation.
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Gerda Müller (mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)
Ulli Mayer (mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)
Axel Petri-Preis (mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)