Tuning Up! ? Innovative Potentials of Musikvermittlung

Professional musicians who perform in hospitals, retirement homes and prisons, creatively stimulated by the residents; babies crawling over exercise mats, enjoying classical music together with their parents; concert-goers who take their seats between the musicians in order to experience music up close with all their senses – the opportunities to make and experience music are almost unlimited. Various actors in the field of classical music have taken this as a chance to develop a wide range of new artistic and educational practices over the last two decades, aiming to facilitate in-depth aesthetic experiences, to diversify and bond with audiences and to encourage active cultural participation. The contributors focus on the innovative potential of Musikvermittlung as a social bridge-builder for concert life, (higher) music education, research and social life.

Sarah Chaker (Dr. phil.) studied musicology and German language at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Music Sociology (IMS) at the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Her research interests include street music, the transdisciplinary analysis of music, histories, theories and methods of music sociology, popular music (in particular metal music) and Musikvermittlung.

Axel Petri-Preis is senior scientist and deputy director at the Department for Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Making (IMP) at the mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Previously, he worked as a freelance music mediator for institutions such as Neue Oper Wien, Philharmonie Luxemburg, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Music Medition (IJMM), co-spokesperson of the Forum Music Mediation at colleges and universities, and sounding board member for the IG Musikvermittlung. His research focuses on the education and training of musicians, on the social-transformative potential of music mediation, and on diversity-sensitive and power-critical music mediation.