Key thoughts with Patricia Kopatchinskaja
To me, sustainability means… a way of life that we can maintain for a few thousand years more.
The mdw’s Future Art Lab Opens
At last: 7 June 2021 saw this brand new multifunctional building on the mdw Campus officially given over to its intended purpose in a festive open-air event.
An Honorary Doctorate from the mdw: Interview with Evelyn Torton Beck
In September, Evelyn Toron Beck received an honorary doctorate from the mdw. An interview in advance in the mdw magazine.
Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Professor Herwig Reiter
He helped shape and guide the areas of choir and ensemble conducting at the mdw for years, and his insider’s knowledge of the Austrian choral landscape was virtually unparalleled. Whether as a conductor, vocal coach, choir director, recording producer, composer, book author, jury member, or passionate educator, everything he did was always of up-to-the-minute relevance.
The ECMA Spirit: Live and Online
Live again at last! The euphoria generated by once more being able to experience a “real” ECMA session was on full display in late May of this year when the members of six ensembles came together in Grafenegg. This session witnessed an entire week of intense rehearsals coached by an international group of teachers and was crowned by a best-of concert before a nearly 200-strong audience.
Students Helping Students – A Look Back at the First Year of the mdw’s Buddy Programme
Easing the arrival of international first-semester students in Vienna and at the University, helping them network socially once here: it was a desire to do precisely these things that inspired the Buddy Programme’s conception as part of the mdw Diversity Strategy back in 2019.
isa is 30 – and going hybrid for the first time!
With 30 years now under its belt, isa – the International Summer Academy of the mdw is expanding its interdisciplinary canon of programmes (isaMasterclass, isaFestival, isaScience, isaOutreach, isaOperetta) by isaDigital, which premiered in August of last year.
Key Thoughts with Michael Dörfler-Kneihs Michael Dörfler-Kneihs
To me, sustainability means… thinking in a networked manner. Weighing the consequences of each decision and considering whether the resource consumption it will entail (in terms of raw materials, energy, working hours, money) is really worth it.
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