Austrian Association for Contemporary Art and Music

2014

CHoir Music Workshop AT King`s Academy, Jordania

This workshop is dedicated to enthusiastic musicians and composers from

Jordan and students from King`s Academy. During this week at King`s

Academy, renowned Austrian composer Johanna Doderer, conductor Ewald

Donhoffer and Sound Designer David Muellner will work with young musicians

and composers on contemporary and classic pieces for choir. Students will

have the chance to get a profound insight into contemporary music from

Austria. They will get the chance to learn about choir singing techniques and

much more. If this won`t be enough, Dozan Wa Awtar choir

will join the workshop to give an unforgettable music experience to all!

Last but not least there will be lectures in music history and sound design.

This project is being organized together with King`s Academy and the Austrian

Embassy in Amman.

2013

Contemporary Music Workshop AT King`s Academy, Jordania

This workshop is dedicated to young musicians and composers from Jordan and students from King`s Academy. During this week at King`s Academy, renowned Austrian composer Gerald Resch, conductor Ewald Donhoffer and Sound Designer David Muellner will work with young musicians and composers on contemporary pieces for orchestra instruments.

Students will have the chance to get a profound insight into contemporary music from Austria, have the chance to learn about orchestra playing techniques and will have lessons in music history of the 20th and 21st century and will be informed about the latest developments in the field of music.

We will encourage students to compose their own pieces and to learn from real professionals. This workshop will encourage discussions about music as a universal language and give you hands on practice to enhance your instrument and orchestra playing skills.

Maestro Missak Baghboudarian, conductor of the Syrian National Orchestra will also join us to rehearse a piece written by Wassim Ibrahim, a young composer from Syria.

2012

COMPOSERS CONNECTED VIENNA, Austria

Master class in composition for composers by Johanna Doderer, from 9. – 23. September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. This master class is dedicated to young composers from Arabic countries and from Iran. During 2 weeks, renowned Austrian composer Johanna Doderer will work with young composers on pieces for piano trio or solo instruments. The class is dedicated to elaborate own compositions for piano trio (or solo instruments) which will be performed publicly by a professional ensemble specialized in contemporary music.

Media Workshop in Tehran, Iran, Part III

This year, we focus on composition and sound design for film. Each participant is encouraged to compose music to a short sample from an Austrian movie. Together we produce the composition, from idea to the final musicfile and sound design for this film clip. Working with the technical equipment needed to realize a sound track, participants get the chance to deepen their knowledge of computer based sound design and composition software. It is a practical „hands on“ worshop tecniques needed. We will transform the Musikzimmer at the ÖKF into a sound recording studio. On August 31. there will be a public presentation of the sound tracks made at the ÖKF Teheran.

2011

Contemporary Music Workshop in Tehran, Iran, Part II

When we first met in September 2010, we have been overwhelmed by the diversity and quality of the work of Iranian artists. Our vision is to bring the participants of the last contemporary workshop together again.

This time we focus on composition and sound design for film as well as contemporary music. We will present some short films. During the workshop, selected participants will compose and produce a complete sound track for a short film clip of their choice. Together with the particpants, we will work on their ideas, record music, produce them on site and put them together on „celluloid“. At the end of the workshop we will have a public presentation at the ÖKF. The participants will present music from the 20th and 21st century and the soundwork on short films.

Contemporary Music Workshop in Damascus, Syria, Part V

This years workshop program (lasting from March 10 to March 23, 2011) will again focus on the latest contemporary works of composers such as Johanna Doderer from Austria and Wassim Ibrahim from Syria. At the end of the workshop there will be a concert on March 23 in the Big Hall at the National Opera in Damascus. Maestri Ewald Donhoffer and Missak Baghboudarian will conduct the Orchestra of the High Institute of Music, Damascus. W.A. Mozarts Overture from „Die Entführung aus dem Serail“ and 5th symphony from Franz Schubert will also be performed.

2010

Contemporary Music Workshop in Tehran, Iran, Part I

Workshop program

•Discussion about the works of Austrian composers and explaining the works of Stefan Höll

•Exchange about the newest music developments in Austria and Iran

•Insight gain to the work of contemporary Iranian musicians and studying about Persian music.

•Explaining the works of participants. Time to visit rehearsals and lessons is planned.

•Electroacoustic sound design and compositions by David Müllner, composing with computer and software.

•As a follow up rehearsing of new Austrian and Iranian music with interested students and performance in a workshop concert

•Documentation with a workshop diary

Contemporary Music Workshop in DamasCUS, Syria, Part IV

From 6 March to 18 March 2010 the fourth workshop for contemporary music will take place at the High Institute for Music, Damascus and Dar al-Assad Foundation for Arts and Culture.

The Austrian Association for contemporary Art and Music – AACAM together with the High Institute of Music Damascus will organize a workshop focusing on contemporary classical music from Austria and from Syria. With the support of Dar al-Assad Foundation for Arts and Culture and from the Austrian Embassy in Damascus the Syrian students will get profound insight into contemporary music and its interpretation.

The student’s orchestra of the High Institute for Music will work with the Austrian Maestro Ewald Donhoffer and Maestri Missak Baghboudarian on a challenging and exciting program.

This year pieces by the Austrian composer Gottfried von Einem and the Syrian composers Ziad Jabri and Hassan Taha as well as pieces by Brahms will be in the centre of student’s attention.

On 18 March the student’s orchestra will perform a concert in the opera. Tickets will be available through Dar al-Assad.

For the first time the Austrian team will be supported by a musicologist. Dr Resch , teacher at the University for Music Vienna, will provide his expertise and analysis on the contemporary pieces to the students. He will also be at the disposal of the High Institute of Music and its faculty.

“It is great to see how our cooperation gets more intensive and more fruitful every year” said David Muellner, Director of AACAM. Also Maestro Ewald Donhoffer, who is conducting at several mayor European Opera houses and teaches at the Music Conservatory in Vienna, is looking forward to this year’s workshop “I am always happy to come to Damascus; working with Meastro Baghboudarian and with the Syrian students is always exciting and a big pleasure.”

2009

Contemporary Music Workshop in DamasCUS, Syria, Part III

This year’s workshop held in April and May 2009 will focus on the interpretation of modern music as well as on the understanding of its roots in the classical field. Maestro Missak Baghboudarian and Maestro Ewald Donhoffer elaborated a program for the students’ orchestra of the HIM which offers a good insight into the workshop’s set focus.

Maestro Baghboudarian happily agreed to engage in the project and developed together with Maestro Donhoffer this year’s mission: The specialities of interpretation of works throughout the centuries, the special colours of the sounds as well as techniques of play are in the centre of attention.

Since February students at the HIM are studying works of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert as well as of Hassan Taha and Stefan Höll. In March the students’ orchestra started with intensive rehearsals.

The final outcome of all the effort made in this year’s workshop will be presented on April 23, 2009 when the students’ orchestra will perform the program in a special concert held at Dar al-Assad. The evening will be conducted by Ewald Donhoffer and Missak Baghboudarian. The Maestros will comment on the pieces presented for the audience. This years concert will be recorded by AACAM.

2008

Contemporary Music Workshop in DamasCUS, Syria, Part II

In April 2008 Stefan Höll came back with Maestro Ewald Donhoffer and together with Professor Taha realized at the end of this second workshop a concert was presented on April 27 in the Kafr Suseh Cultural Centre. The concert presented works of living Syrian and Austrian composers and was a big success. The concert is available on Audio CD.

2007

Contemporary Music Workshop in DamasCUS, Syria, Part I

The cooperation began in November 2007 when the first workshop organized by HIM and Austria was held at the HIM. Austrian Composer Stefan Höll worked with the students on contemporary composition and soon HIM Director Atthil Hamdan, Professors and students as well agreed that regular workshops were not only enriching but useful as well for everybody. Professor Taha was supporting the project as a Professor and as Syrian composer from the very beginning.