News about climate change, species extinction, wars, and the like confront young people in particular with entirely new questions: How does it affect me and my surroundings? Can I just continue on as if nothing were amiss? Won’t everything change? What has to change?
With an eye to communities and collectives ranging from social movements to artist groups and from ethnic communities all the way to “sonic ties” of the non-human sort, the 2023 isaScience conference zeroed in particularly on the interrelations between sound as such and power structures that exist in sound, music, and the performing arts at large.
The third edition of the mdw great talent award powered by Christian Zeller brought with it a broad field of participants, an exceptional overall level, and a virtuoso winner. The Italian organist Raimondo Mazzon claimed ultimate victory at this competition for up-and-coming mdw artists.
For a full decade now, students of Heinz-Peter Linshalm and Petra Stump-Linshalm have been performing at various exhibitions of the modern and contemporary art museum mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien as part of a cooperative arrangement between the museum and the mdw’s Joseph Haydn Department of Chamber Music and Contemporary Music.
In our series “What does art have to do with the Earth’s climate?” the “Green mdw” initiative invites concerned individuals to speak out on their personal approaches to this issue. These questions are answered here by the musician and composer Simon Zöchbauer.
And just recently, on three days in June, a new cooperative project made it possible for three mdw-connected ensembles to perform on this year’s MQ Summer Stage under the heading of “MQ meets mdw”.
Since this spring, the mdw has been cooperating actively with the Korean Cultural Center in Vienna’s 1st district. Sun Ok Lee—the Center’s artistic director and mdw alumna—speaks in the following about cultural similarities, the importance of self-management, and supporting young musicians.
2023 saw young musicians from all over the world converge on Vienna once more to prove their talent at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, which took place for the eighth time.
What characterises good teaching at an arts university? What specific teaching_learning situations exist at a university of music and performing arts? And how to reflect upon one’s own teaching practice in a self-critical manner?
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