O P E N  H O U S E  D A Y

6. March 2026
9-17h

Register here!


You have the opportunity to get to know our campus and our degree programs:

Diploma programs:
- Instrumental/Vocal composition
- Electroacoustic Composition
- Media Composition & Applied Music
- Music Theory

Bachelor / Master (from 2024)
- Tonmeister_in

Find out more about our innovative teaching content, our modern facilities and the wide range of career opportunities. Our lecturers and students are available for questions and personal discussions; there is also the opportunity to get to know the premises and studios, as well as the Future Art Lab with its arthouse cinema and the "Klangtheater" for immersive all-round sound reinforcement.

We will be happy to help you coordinate students and classes on site.
We look forward to welcoming you and to inspiring discussions!

Please register via: ikt-veranstaltungen@mdw.ac.at  

To the study-course


Programm:


Below you will find the program starting at the time indicated. // Subject to change without notice.
 


9h

  • Welcome by Head of Department Prof. Annegret Huber | Presentation of the day's program (Otto Johann Piplics) | @Klangtheater

9h30

  • CAMPUS TOUR with Otto Johann Piplics | meeting point Future Art Lab, foyer
  • Overview: BA/MA TONMEISTER STUDIES (Prof. Pauline Heister) | @Klangtheater


10h

  • OFFICE HOUR - Head of Department Prof. Annegret Huber | @VEG31 Institutsleitungsbüro
  • STUDIO TOUR with Hans Döllinger | meeting point Future Art Lab, foyer
  • Overview: Diploma studies COMPOSITION & MUSIC THEORY (Wolfgang Suppan) | @D0263
  • Information Lecture: BA/MA TONMEISTER STUDIES | POPULAR MUSIC PRODUCTION (Prof. Mischa Janisch) | @Aufnahmesaal
  • Open Class: Music- and structural analysis (Angelika Silberbauer) | @VZG05
    10:00-11:30h (class in German)
     

11h

  • OFFICE HOUR - Head of Department Prof. Annegret Huber | @VEG31 Institutsleitungsbüro
  • Information Lecture: BA/MA TONMEISTER STUDIES | CLASSICAL MUSIC PRODUCTION (Prof. Pauline Heister) | @Aufnahmesaal
  • Information Lecture: Diploma studies COMPOSITIONELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION (Prof. Jorge Sánchez-Chiong) | @Klangtheater
  • Open Class: Practical Instrumentation (Marko Markuš) | @D0263
  • Open Class: Historical Composition Techniques, Topic: Historical Turns in Romanticism (Prof. Julia Purgina) | @C0211
     (class in German)
  • Open Class: Introduction to Acoustics (Peter Plessas) | @A0201
    11:00-12:30h  (class in German)
  • Open Class: Future Art Radio (Johann Groiss-Endler) | @VZG05
    11:30-17:00h  (class in German)


12h

  • STUDIO TOUR with Hans Döllinger | meeting point Future Art Lab, foyer
  • Information Lecture: BA/MA TONMEISTER STUDIES | FILM SOUND (tba) | @Klangtheater
  • Information Lecture: Diploma studies COMPOSITION | COMPOSITION (Prof. Gerald Resch) | @D0263
  • Open Class: Future Art Radio (Johann Groiss-Endler) | @VZG05
    11:30-17:00h (class in German)


13h

  • Information Lecture: Entrance Exams & Preparatory Courses (Gernot Schedlberger & Otto Piplics) | @Aufnahmesaal
  • Information Lecture: Diploma studies COMPOSITION MUSIC THEORY (Prof. Frauke Jürgensen) | @D0263
  • Presentation: The Sound of Klangtheater with Florian Bogner | @Klangtheater
  • Open Class: Future Art Radio (Johann Groiss-Endler) | @VZG05
    11:30-17:00h (class in German)


14h

  • OFFICE HOUR - Head of Department Prof. Annegret Huber | @VEG31 Institutsleitungsbüro
  • CAMPUS TOUR with Otto Johann Piplics | meeting point Future Art Lab, foyer
  • Information Lecture: Diploma studies COMPOSITION | MEDIA COMPOSITION (Prof. Judit Varga, Prof. Walter Werzowa) | @Klangtheater
  • Open Class: Style und Instrumentation (Marko Markuš) | @D0263
  • Open Class: 3D-Mixing in Dolby Atmos (Prof. Pauline Heister) | @Tonregie A
  • Open Class: Future Art Radio (Johann Groiss-Endler) | @VZG05
    11:30-17:00h (class in German)
  • hmdw-OFFICE HOUR: Meet the students! (Students representatives Composition/Music Theory) | @VZG48


15h

  • OFFICE HOUR - Head of Department Prof. Annegret Huber | @VEG31 Institutsleitungsbüro
  • STUDIO TOUR with Hans Döllinger | meeting point Future Art Lab, foyer
  • Presentation: "New Tasks - New Sounds in Film Music", Portraits of Young Composers | @Klangtheater
  • Open Class: Opera-Mixing for video-livestream images (Prof. Pauline Heister) | @Tonregie B
  • Open Class: Historical Composition Techniques, Topic: Four-part composition in the 16th century (Prof. Julia Purgina) | tba
    (class in German)
  • Open Class: Future Art Radio (Johann Groiss-Endler) | @VZG05
    11:30-17:00h (class in German)
  • hmdw-OFFICE HOUR: Meet the students! (Students representatives Tonmeister studies) | @Aufnahmesaal


16h

  • Information Lecture: Introduction to computer music; algorithmic and intermedia composition (Andreas Weixler) | @Experimentalstudio
  • Reel: Media Composition (Movies, Clips, Works) | @Klangtheater
  • Open Class: Future Art Radio (Johann Groiss-Endler) | @VZG05
    11:30-17:00h (class in German)
  • hmdw-OFFICE HOUR: Meet the students! (Students representatives Composition/Music Theory) | @VZG48
  • hmdw-OFFICE HOUR: Meet the students! (Students representatives Tonmeister studies) | @Aufnahmesaal