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23.07.2026
The four-part film ‘Wagner: The Good, the Bad, the Ego’ is now available to watch on the ARD media library. It was produced by Prof. Michael Wende. The documentary filmmaker, author and motion designer is a professor of applied multimedia moving-image projects at the Institute of Music Journalism (IMJ).The film is based, amongst other things, on material created by students at the Karlsruhe University of Music (Music Journalism course) as part of RIWA 26. It was commissioned by Bayerischer… Weiterlesen
23.07.2026
As part of the RIWA project, the book „Bayreuth as Theatre: Towards a History of the Festival“ by Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Stephan Mösch has been published by Bärenreiter/Metzler. Stephan Mösch teaches aesthetics, history and artistic practice in musical theatre at the IMT (Institute for Musical Theatre). RIWA26 and Stephan Mösch’s book on Bayreuth as a theatre have been, and continue to be, the focus of numerous radio programmes 23 July from 5.05 pm to 6 pm SWR Kultur’s ‘Forum’… Weiterlesen
21.07.2026
Jeremias Burk, a Master’s student in Prof. Tatjana Vassiljewa-Monnier’s cello class, will become a permanent member of the Ulm Philharmonic Orchestra from September 2026.Jeremias Burk was born in Bad Tölz in 1999 and received his first music lessons on the piano at the age of six. At the age of seven, he began playing the cello and was taught by Martina Trost-Gelse. Accepted into the programme for gifted pupils at the Pliezhausen Music School, Jeremias gained experience in regular concert… Weiterlesen
16.07.2026
Two prizes at the Carl Flesch Academy Lara Eberitzsch, a pre-college student studying violin with Prof. Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, has won the Werner Stiefel Prize. This main prize is worth 3,500 euros and includes a solo concert performance at the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Hall as part of the season opening of the Patronage Society for Theatre and Philharmonic Hall Baden-Baden on Saturday, 19 September 2026, 10.30–11.30 am.Hana Rabadan, a Bachelor’s student in Prof. László Fenyő’s cello… Weiterlesen
14.07.2026
Jaehyeok Choi, a Master’s student in Prof. Markus Hechtle’s composition class, has won first prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in Tokyo.Juror Jörg Widmann on the award-winning work: Jaehyeok Choi’s Supernova for Orchestra is an almost classic example of highly nuanced, meticulously crafted orchestration and instrumentation. What stands out most here is the logic and consistency of its structure. The piece steadfastly adheres to a single motif of aphoristic conciseness — a small,… Weiterlesen