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Here you can find any news story from the front page in chronological order. Please note that the date refers to the date of publication on the website.
December 2025
- 16.12.25: mdw mdw deepens cooperation with the Tyrolean State Conservatory
- 10.12.25: Isabel Frey receives the Award of Excellence 2025
- 06.12.25:Call for papers: Tenor Vienna 2026
November 2025
- 26.11.25: Winners of the great talent award 2025
- 25.11.25: mdw Appreciation Awards 2025
- 23.11.25: Final of the Young Composers Competition coming up!
- 20.11.25: IN.TUNE Open lunch & exchange
- 15.11.25: mdw Pop-up Advent Calendar
- 07.11.25: Info-ZOOM Go study abroad!
- 03.11.25: IN.TUNE AIRE 2025 – Annual IN.TUNE Research in Education Event
October 2025
- 31.10.25: Finalists of the great talent award 2025
- 16.10.25: Honorary Doctorate for Gertraud Cerha
- 14.10.25: Winners of the Austrian Art Alumni Awards 2025
- 06.10.25: Winners of the Werner Pirchner Prize 2025
- 01.10.25: Finalists of the Young Composers Competition
September 2025
- 28.09.25: Alexandra Münger wins the Reinl Harp Competition
- 19.09.25: Winners of the 9. Franz Schmidt Organ Competition
- 16.09.25: Farewell to Harald Serafin
- 15.09.25: Bo Wang wins the Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition
August 2025
June 2025
May 2025
- 31.05.25: Major Success for mdw Students at the 2025 Red Bull Scoring Challenge
- 16.05.25: Beethoven Competition 2025 Live-Rounds and Final
- 06.05.25: Student Social Survey 2025
April 2025
- 30.04.25: PostDoc-Fellowships 2025
- 09.04.25: Internatinal Competition for Young Composers
- 09.04.25: mdw young research award: Apply now!
- 08.04.25: Reach higher, reach beyond! Mentoring-Programm
- 04.04.25: IN.TUNE Call for Student-Led Projects
March 2025
- 31.03.25: Beethoven Competition: Candidates selected for live rounds
- 28.03.25: Austrian Art Alumni Award 2025
- 21.03.25: Open Call: Sound As Score Composer Lab
- 21.03.25: Call for Papers: isaResearch Summer School
- 21.03.25: Applications for the 5th International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition
- 12.03.25: mdw in 4th place in worldwide university ranking
- 07.03.25: Werner Pirchner Prize 2025
February 2025
- 20.02.25: Application for isaCommunity
- 17.02.25: Information events at the mdw regarding the entrance exams 2025/26
- 14.02.25: Admission for the artistic doctorate (Doctor Artium Programme)
- 10.02.25: Entrance Exams Music Education
- 10.02.25: Entrance Exams Performance Studies
- 10.02.25: Admission for artistic major
- 06.02.25: Start of counstruction for new practice rooms at the mdw
- 04.02.25: Solidarity with the University of Arts in Belgrade
January 2025
Archive 2024
Here you can find any news story from the front page in chronological order. Please note that the date refers to the date of publication on the website.
October 2024
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Meeting of Artistic Research Alliance held at the mdw
21.10.2024 - mdw concert as part of the Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2024 (German)
02.10.2024
September 2024
March 2024
Archive 2023
Here you can find any news story from the front page in chronological order. Please note that the date refers to the date of publication on the website.
December 2023
- mdw receives the Erasmus+ Award 2023
14 December 2023
July 2023
June 2023
- Korea Cultural Center and mdw bring Korean fairy tales to the stage as a concert for children
23 June 2023
April 2023
- Great success for the inaugural concert "The First Sound" of the Cultural Hall of the Korea Cultural Centre
03 April 2023
March 2023
- Farewell to Florian Pagitsch
23 March 2023
- Farewell to Judith Halász
20 March 2023
- Statement of the International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna
16 March 2023
February 2023
- Farewell to Friedrich Cerha
14 February 2023
January 2023
- Farewell to Renate Kramer-Preisenhammer
17 January 2023
- mdwPodcast Episode 18: Unforgettable Music
18 January 2023
Archive 2022
Here you can find any news story from the front page in chronological order. Please note that the date refers to the date of publication on the website.
December 2022
- Concert of the mdw and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)
2 December 2022
November 2022
- Farewell to Gabriele Lechner
29 November 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 16: Abuse of power and assaults
24 November 2022
- Workshow of the Film Academy Vienna 2022
10 November 2022
- Farewell to Irmgard Bontinck
08 November 2022
October 2022
- Winners of the 6th Hong Kong International Piano Competition
28 October 2022
- Human Rights Day 2022
21 October 2022
- mdw awarded with the Sustainability Award of the City of Vienna
20 October 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 15: A class of its own
19 October
- Saving energy measurements at the mdw
07 October 2022 -
Minority music in the field of tension between society and politics
05 October 2022
September 2022
- Farewell to Chstian Hummer
29. September 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 14: Let’s Get Digital!
23. September 2022
- First International Symposium "Music Therapy with Families
22. September 2022
- Fritz Kreisler - A Cosmopolitan in Exile. From child prodigy to "king of the violinists
13. September 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 13: Klangzauber
1. September 2022
August 2022
- Farewell to Helmut Schaller
24. August 2022
July 2022
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Chinese Music Week 2022 of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM)
20 July 2022 -
isa22 - Summer Academy with an appeal for a creative new beginning
06 July 2022
June 2022
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Herta and Kurt Blaukopf-Award 2022 awarded
09 June 2022 -
mdwPodcast Episode 12: „Die Kamera liebte meine Eltern“
10. June 2022
May 2022
- Kirill Petrenko conducts the Webern Symphony Orchestra
24 May 2022
- Winners of the mdw great talent award powered by Christian Zeller
13 May 2022
- Lange Nacht der Forschung 2022: "Mein Lied für dich"
10 May 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 11: Papagenoeffekt
10 May 2022
April 2022
- The Rupture in History: Commemorative Exhibition at the Max Reinhardt Seminar
29 April 2022
- Winner of the Otto Edelmann Singing Competition
28 April 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 10: Music and Equity
12 April 2022
- "Ein Fest für Beethoven" at RadioKulturhaus
11 April 2022
- University ranking: mdw in 2nd place worldwide in the field of music and performing arts
6 April 2022
March 2022
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Farewell to Leo Plettner
30 March 2022 -
Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme of the Royal Academy of Music London (RAM)
25 March 2022 - Music Universities of Vienna organize "Ein Fest für Beethoven"
9 March 2022
- Farewell to Paul Hille
3 March 2022
- Rosa Reitsamer is awarded the Gabriele-Possanner-Staatspreis
2 March 2022
February 2022
- Support for Students from Ukraine
28. Februar 2022
- Statement on the Ukraine
27 February 2022
- Farewell to Peter Efler
22 February 2022 -
Winners of the international Harp Competition of the Franz Josef Reinl Foundation
10 February 2022 -
Patrick Thomas Schäfer wins the Mauricio Kagel Kompositionswettbewerb 2022
4 February 2022
January 2022
- Third term of office for Ulrike Sych - Rector of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
28 January 2022
- mdwPodcast Episode 9
14 January 2022
