Making music together in an ensemble as large as an orchestra brings with it numerous challenges and requires flexibility, the ability to work in a team, and the willingness to engage with each other.
Special: Orchestra
Posted on 30. April 2019
Pfingstfestival Stetteldorf
A New Collaborative Project Between the mdw’s Career Center and the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies,
“Your body no longer realises that you’ve still got solid ground beneath your feet.”
Virtual Reality in Film: One needn’t be a tech nerd to find virtual reality fascinating.
Becoming Professional (Orchestra) Players Step By Step
Many mdw alumni realise their dream by becoming part of a large ensemble, performing as members of an excellent international orchestra.
The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Turns 50
A unique institution of Austrian musical life does a bit of looking back and a whole lot of looking forward.
Music
Beatles: Reimagined
Conceiving, arranging, producing, and performing with guidance from the internationally renowned artist Steve Sidwell.
Holding the Instrument in One’s own Hand
This year, the Webern Ensemble Wien—under the artistic direction of Jean-Bernard Matter—turns to the doyen of Austrian composing: Friedrich Cerha.
Alumni in Focus – Giulia Brinckmeier
The exceptional violinist Giulia Brinckmeier discovered her talent for working as a concertmistress more or less by chance.
Webern Symphonie Orchester à Paris
On Growing (Together) Musically and Interpersonally
Drama
Training to Master the Challenge of Acting Auditions
Rita Waszilovics and casting director Deborah Congia spoke with mdw Magazine about their work.
“I wouldn’t be caught dead acting.” – Humphrey Bogart (attr.)
Nicole Heesters visits the Max Reinhardt Seminar
“In the End, It’s ‘Just’ Theatre.”
The 24-year-old German actor spoke with mdw Magazine about her fear of the acting profession, her plans for the future, and why she wants to play Jedermann in Salzburg.
Master of the Dirty Aesthetic
Since this autumn, the exceptional director David Bösch has been teaching stage directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Film
A Day at Film Academy Vienna
Saskia Arth is working on her BA in Production. We followed her and her team through a typical day of filming work.
Music videos: A Kind of Experimental Laboratory
A Calling Card, not an Income Source
Creating Worlds
Digital Art Compositing at Film Academy Vienna
Unexcelled Authenticity: Children in Film
Three Young Filmmakers Tell Us About Filmmaking with Children.
Research
Review: Lothar Knessl. Vermittler neuer Musik, Autor, Komponist, Kurator.
Juri Giannini, Andreas Holzer, Stefan Jena, and Jürgen Polak (eds.): Lothar Knessl. Vermittler neuer Musik, Autor, Komponist, Kurator. Hollitzer Verlag, 2018.
Telling Music History (Differently?) – Music History Research Using Audio-Visual Sources
Since the dawn of the 20th-century, sounds and images conveyed via various media have been playing an ever-greater role in the shaping of our world and living environment.
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