Jürgen Tauber, Pianist
Senior Lecturer for Solfeggo|Interpretation of Musical Entertainment Theatre
tauber@mdw.ac.at

Studied jazz piano at the Vienna Conservatory. Since 2001, has taught at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 2014, has been chair of the study commission for vocal performance and musical theatre at the mdw. Since October 2017, deputy director at the Department of Voice and Musical Theatre at the mdw and, since October 2022, member of the mdw Senate.

From 2005 to 2009, director of the musical theatre programme the Department of Voice and Musical Theatre at the mdw. Musical director and musical supervisor for numerous music theatre productions in Austria and Germany, including at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, the Theater Hof, the Landestheater Niederbayern, the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, the Sommerspiele Stift Altenburg, jopera Jennersdorf, the Theater 82er Haus, the "Wir sind Bühne" music school management Niederösterreich, the Metropol Wien and the mdw.

2018/19 Composition of a commissioned work (Die Schattenkaiserin) for the Tyrolean State Theatre on the occasion of the Emperor Maximilian Memorial Year (nominated for the German Musical Theatre Award in the category "Best Composition" in 2021). Furthermore, diverse activities as an arranger and composer for, among others, the Hofer Symphoniker, the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, the Bühne Baden, the Tiroler Landestheater, Quadro Nuevo, the Passionsspiele Tirschenreuth and the Bühne Tschauner.

Lectures on ear training, music theory and master classes in musical theatre, including at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Lyon and the Music School Management Lower Austria. Furthermore, teaching activities with Prof. Noelle Turner as part of the Gutenstein and VSA Eisenstadt master classes, as well as with Prof. Ann-Marie Speed (Royal College) and Ineke van Dooren (University of the Arts Arnhem) at the ICVT 2022 in Vienna.

Musical collaborations in concerts and musical theatre productions with Luzia Nistler, Patricia Nessy, Wietske van Tongeren, Annemieke van Dam, Eva Maria Marold, Caroline Vasicek, Lynne Kieran, Eddie Cole, Reinwald Kranner, Uwe Kröger, Boris Pfeifer and Markus Richter, among others.

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