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»Also applies to musicians: A picture sometimes says more than 1000 words.«
JOSEF WINDISCH COMPETITION 2012
WORLD EXPO SHANGHAI 2010
PROMOTIONEN & SPONSIONEN
SHANGHAI 2016
MUSIC FAIRS AND “MEASURING”
MAKING THE MOVIE “THE SOUND OF VIENNA” (» Film)
TV GALA OPENING OF THE BEIJING OPERA ACADEMY 2010
FROM MY TIME AS VICE RECTOR
ALL ABOUT THE EMP PROJECT FOR CHINA
NINGBO AND SURROUNDING AREA
BEIJING’S PARKS AND GARDEN
HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY THANKS
Josef Windisch Competition
Josef Windisch, 98 years old, former Vienna City Councilor, music connoisseur and music lover, had already supported many years before, annually, needy and highly gifted children with scholarships. I was able to get him excited about a “Josef Windisch competition”. I hope that the pictures reflect the emotional experience for the young musicians and the audience. Windisch died in 2013 just a few month away from his 100th birthday.
01 Presentation of the awards
02 Michael Stückler – Horn
03 Michael Stückler – Horn
04 Michael Stückler – Horn
05 Dominik Wagner
06 Selina Ott
07 Selina Ott
08 Vincent Vogel
09 Vincent Vogel
10 Josef Windisch und Frau Dr. Isabella Exner
11 Josef Windisch und Frau Dr. Isabella Exner
12 Jing Fang TAN
13 Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
14 Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
15 Raffaele Gianotti
16 Raffaele Gianotti
17 Raffaele Gianotti
18 Sych, Widholm
19 Hannah Kaufmann
20 Rentaro-Leo Shima
21 Rentaro-Leo Shima
22 Kiron Tellkioglu
23 Kiron Tellkioglu
24 Angela Rief
25 Angela Rief
26 Clemens Kropfitsch
27 Clemens Kropfitsch
28 Clemens Kropfitsch
29 Veronica Scotti
30 Veronica Scotti
31 Veronica Scotti
32 Veronica Scotti
33 Windisch, Widholm
34 Exner, Windisch, Widholm
35 Windisch
36 Windisch, Kropfitsch
37 Kaufmann, Windisch
38 Windisch with award winners
39 Windisch with award winners
World Expo Shanghai 2010
For more details see “Innovations and Foundings”: At the Beginning of “EMP in China” the chapter: The prehistory.
01 Impression
02 One of the countless entrance controls
03 Entrance check point
03 Bai Lin at the entrance check
04 Bai Lin at the entrance check
05 Entrance check point
06 Austrian pavilion
07 Austria pavilion entrance area
08 Austrian Pavilion Lounge
09 Austrian Pavilion Lounge
10 Austrian Pavilion Lounge
11 Austrian Pavilion Lounge
12 Location of the competition
13 Preparatory meeting
14 Preparatory meeting
15 Preparatory meeting
16 Competition
17 Five of these huge sculptures spread over the Expo
18 Note the order of magnitude people-buildings!
19 Flying saucer and no national pavilion
20 Flying saucer
20a Flying saucer
21 Chinese pavilion. Consider the order of magnitude of people-buildings
22 unknown pavilion
23 Korean pavilion
23a Korean pavilion
24 unknown pavilion
25 Turkmenistan
27 Spanish Pavilion
26 Spanish Pavilion
28 Drive from Shanghai to Ningbo over the longest sea bridge in the world (36 km).
29 Viewing tower and restaurant in the middle of the bridge.
30 Chen Hailun and BaiLin with husband Ernest
31 Professor from Graz – me – Chen Hailun – Ernest
Promotionen and Sponsionen
There are usually 4-5 dates per year on which the ceremonial presentation of the diplomas takes place in the morning and afternoon.
As deputy to the rector this was also part of my duties.
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Highest located hotel in the world Shanghai 2016
Since my return flight to Vienna started at 11 a.m., I had to go to Shanghai and stay overnight the day before. Hailun invited me to spend this night in the highest hotel in the world. It was already a special experience. Shanghai World Financial Center, 101 floors, 497 meters high, the hotel occupies the floors 80-93. My room was on the 92nd floor.
01 World Financial Center
02 World Financial Center
03 View from my hotel room
04 View from my hotel room
05 View from my hotel room
06 View from my hotel room
07 View from my hotel room
08 View from my hotel room
09 View from my hotel room
10 World Financial Center
Music Fairs and “Measuring”
My exhibition booths through the ages. The photos were taken before the public had access. During the opening hours, you couldn’t see the booth in the crowds.
01 Exhibition UNITECH 1981
02 International Music Fair Frankfurt 1996
03 Frankfurt 2000
04 Frankfurt 2000 Detail
05 Frankfurt 2000 Violin measuring system
06 Frankfurt 2000 Detail
07 Our PC is abused by a visitor
08 Bob Olson – Head of Research at Kanstul (USA)
“Measuring”
A central part of our work is the development of practicable digital measuring systems to assess the musical quality of musical instruments and to “measure” these instruments. The photos are taken at the IOIA Summer Session 2008 and from various measurements at the IWK.
10 Measurement series IOIA 2008
11 Measurement series IOIA 2008
12 Measurement series IOIA 2008
13 Measurement series IOIA 2008
14 Alexander Mayer our specialist for the conception and assembling of electronic components
15 VIAS violin measuring system 2002
16 VIAS Detail
17 Measurement on guitars 2001
18 Artificial wind player for clarinets (Alexander Mayer)
19 Detail
20 Laser measurements on timpani
29 Violin measurement with VIAS (© 2016 Gerald Y Plattner)
30 Violin measurement with VIAS (© 2016 Gerald Y Plattner)
31 Geigenmessung mit VIAS © 2016 Gerald Y Plattner
Making the movie “The Sound of Vienna”
I was invited at a very early stage by the producer and director of this TV documentary, Alexander Schukoff and his wife Nadezhda, who was responsible for the conception, research and script, to consult and participate in the project. Large parts of the film were shot at our institute and so the circle was closed, because Alexander Schukoff is a graduate of the MDW Film Academy. The copyright of the photos is © 2016 Gerald Y Plattner, www.worx.tv, who supervised the production photographically.
32 Sequence: with the Bösendorfer “Zeus” and Werner Goebl.
33 Cameraman Gustl Gschwantner, behind director Alexander Schukoff
34 Measurements on the Bösendorfer Zeus in the anechoic chamber
35 Measurements on the Bösendorfer Zeus in the anechoic chamber
36 Sequence: Evaluation of measurements. Nadezhda Schukoff, script and text; Alexander Schukoff, director; Gustl Gschwantner ,camera; Lin Jack Tan, piano; Prof.Dr. Antoine Chaigne.
41 Filming lasers in action is difficult.
40 Filming lasers in action is difficult.
37 Laser ESPI on a violin.
38 Violin measurement © Copyright Maritsch.
39 Laser ESPI on a violin.
42 Our laser expert Tatiana Statsenko from the Soviet Union in conversation with the director.
31 Violin measurement with VIAS.
29 Violin measurement with VIAS
30 Violin measurement with VIAS.
43 Zubin Mehta in conversation with Alexander and Nadezhda Schukoff.
TV Gala Opening of the Beijing Opera Academy 2010
In 2010, I was invited by the Beijing University as a representative of Vienna to ceremonially open the “Academy of Opera” at Beijing University together with representatives of La Scala Milan, the Munich State Opera, the Mariinski Theater St. Petersburg and high-ranking representatives of the Chinese Politburo. This was a pompous 2-hour live TV show and I had the honor of being the only non-Chinese to participate in the act by symbolically putting my hands on a globe on stage.
As a reward there was a 3-day cultural program for all foreign guests.
01 There is a gorgeous beautiful park on the university campus.
02 Uni Campus
03 Uni Campus
04 Uni Campus
05 Also on campus, the university operates its own 5-star hotel for its guests. Each room contains a complete office with PC and internet connection.
06 Uni Hotel
07 Uni Hotel
08 TV-Show
09 Solemn opening: The laying on of hands.
10 Walking on the Great Wall of China is a demanding undertaking.
11 Great Wall of China
12 Great Wall of China
13 Great Wall of China
14 Great Wall of China
15 Great Wall of China
16 Great Wall of China
17 Great Wall of China
18 We have earned our lunch.
19 Lunch
19a Lunch
20 The Forbidden City.
21 Impressions
22 Outer wall of the Forbidden City.
23 Living area of concubines and courtiers.
24 Living area of concubines and courtiers.
25 Separation between courtiers-servants.
26 Staff living area.
27 Impressions.
28 Government buildings.
29 Government buildings.
30 Government buildings.
31 Government buildings.
32 Government buildings.
33 Government buildings.
34 Direction Tiananmen Square.
35 Direction Tiananmen Square.
36 Impressions.
37 End of the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square.
38 End of the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square.
39 Tiananmen Square with People’s Congress Building.
40 Other side of Tiananmen Square.
41 Afterwards refreshment in the reported best Peking-duck restaurant in China.
42 The restaurant extends over 6 floors and consists of rooms of different sizes, each with one large table.
43 Detail.
44 Detail.
45 Tiananmen Square at night.
46 Tiananmen Square at night.
From my time as vice rector
Presentation of the renowned Schumpeter Prize to Chen Hailun and Jing Haifen in the Vienna City Hall by the former federal chancellor of Austria Dr. Franz Vranitzky. I was asked to give the laudation (2016).
01 Awarding of the Schumpeter Prize to Chen Hailun and Jing Haifen in Vienna City Hall by Franz Vranitzky 2016. I was asked to give the laudation.
02 Laudation with simultaneous translator Wang Jing.
03 Former federal chancellor of Austria Dr. Franz Vranitzky.
04 Ambassador of China in Austria
05 Laudation
06 Thank You Speech Chen Hailun and Jing Haifen.
Pierre Boulez becomes honorary member of the MDW on my initiative.
07 Pierre Boulez becomes honorary member of the MDW on my initiative.
08 Pierre Boulez
09 Pierre Boulez
10 Having to listen to your own composition is not always fun either.
11 Pierre Boulez
12 Pierre Boulez
13 Pierre Boulez
Ricardo Muti receives the Gold Medal of Merit of the MDW on my initiative
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15 Widholm_Muti_Medaille
16 Widholm_Muti_Medaille_3
17 Widholm_Muti_Medaille_2
18 Widholm_Muti_Ensemble_2
19 Widholm_Muti_7
20 Widholm_Muti_8
Cooperation negotiations in Riga (Latvia) – lectures and partner visit in Vilnius (Lithuania).
21 Cooperation negotiations in Riga 2008.
22 This is Riga too…
23 This also…
24 Riga has the largest contiguous ensemble of Art Nouveau houses in Europe.
25 Art Nouveau.
26 Art Nouveau.
27 Art Nouveau.
28 Art Nouveau.
29 Art Nouveau.
30 Art Nouveau.
31 VILNIUS Lectures and Partner Visit 2008.
32 Vilnius Conservatory.
33 Vilnius State Theatre.
34 Vilnius State Theatre, detail.
35 Since independence, traditional folk music has had enormous significance and also finds its way into rock and pop music.
36 Detail.
37 Folk music is a living reality in Vilnius and can be found in every corner of the city.
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39 The famous Vilnius Forest Cemetery.
40 Forest Cemetery.
41 Forest Cemetery.
42 Forest Cemetery.
43 Forest Cemetery.
44 Forest Cemetery.
45 Forest Cemetery.
46 Forest Cemetery.
Various compulsory appointments, award ceremonies, openings, receiving foreign delegations and background talks.
47 Annual AEC Conference in Strasbourg 2007 Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen.
48 ICA-Conference in Paris 2008. International Commission of Acoustics.
49 ICA Paris. View from my hotel room.
50 Lecture 2016 in Beijing.
51 AEC Conference 2009 in Maastricht.
52 AEC Conference 2009 in Maastricht.
53 AEC Conference 2009 in Maastricht.
54 AEC Conference 2009 in Maastricht.
55 AEC Conference 2008 in Aarhus
56 AEC Conference 2008 in Aarhus
57 AEC Conference 2008 in Aarhus
58 AEC Conference 2008 in Aarhus
59 Guests fom Japan, Prof. H. Mayeda
60 Delegation from Asia
61 Delegation from Asia
62 Delegation from Asia
63 Visitor from South America with Prof. Aichinger.
63a The renowned expert for the human voice, Prof. Johan Sundberg from Sweden visits our Institute.
64 Award ceremony of the International Beethoven Competition 2009.
65 Award ceremony of the International Beethoven Competition 2009.
66 Award ceremony of the International Beethoven Competition 2009.
67 “Hilde Zadek Competition 2011”. Hilde Zadek and Prof. Maria Vernuti.
68 “Hilde Zadek Competition 2011”. Hilde Zadek and Mag. Gabriele Korn.
69 Opening of and Keynote at the ESTA Conference 2009 (European String Teacher Association).
71 Discussion ESTA 2009
70 Discussion ESTA 2009
72 Opening at the Department of Vocal Studies and Music Theatre
73 Opening at the Department of Vocal Studies and Music Theatre
74 Opening of the Gustav Mahler Symposium 2010.
75 Gustav Mahler Symposium.
76 Opening of the Joseph Hayden Symposium 2009.
77 Birthday of Hartmut Krones 2009-2
78 Audition Josef Windisch Grants.
79 Josef Windisch Grants.
80 Background discussions Windisch grants.
82 First presentation of the Best Publication Award 2010
83 Background conversations.
84 Background conversations with Dr. Marion Diederichs-Lafite – Editor of the Austrian Music Journal.
85 Background conversations with Dr. Marion Diederichs-Lafite.
86 Background conversations with Univ.-Prof. Dr.med. Berka-Schmid
87 Background conversations with Univ.-Prof. Angelika Hauser-Dellefant.
88 Background conversations with Univ.-Prof. Angelika Hauser-Dellefant.
89 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stegemann and Univ.-Prof. Angelika Hauser-Dellefant.
90 MDW campus festival 2009
91 MDW campus festival 2009 with Dr.Dr. Karl Straßl
92 MDW campus festival 2009
97 Prof. Dr. Murray Campbell from Edinburgh
98 Time to reflect…
99 …one has only during the waiting time at the airport.
All about the EMP project for China
The beginnings of the project and roll out in Beijing 2016.
International Conference in Beijing and visit in Ningbo 2018.
01 GU Qing – Rector Ulrike Sych.
02 Signing of the contract 2016:
02a A few hours after signing the contract, we are already on the plane to Beijing.
03 Presentation of the project in Beijing at the Music & Live Fair 2016
03a The Austrian Ambassador in China supports and appreciates our project.
04 Presentation of the project in Beijing together with Chen Chaofeng.
05 Promotion in Vienna 2018
06 Promotion in Vienna 2018
09 Promotion in Vienna 2018
10 Promotion in Vienna 2018
11 The 3 supporting pillars of the project: Bai Lin, Eva Königer and Gu Qing.
12 Gu Qing arouses the interest of a Lipizzan at Schönbrunn Palace.
After exhausting meetings, a visit to Schönbrunn is relaxing even in February…
13 Round trip in Schönbrunn.
14 Visit of the delegation of the CMIA from Beijing.
15 Visit of the delegation of the CMIA from Beijing.
16 Birthday party at Cafe Schwarzenberg
17 Keynotes by the Rector and me at the National Music Education Conference in Beijing 2018.
18 Rector
19 Rector
20 Me
21 Rector’s Keynote
22 Rector’s Keynote
23 Rector’s Keynote
24 My keynote
25 My keynote
26 My keynote
27 Guided tour of the fair.
28 Guided tour of the fair.
29 Guided tour of the fair.
30 Guided tour of the fair.
31 Hailun Pianos exhibition booth.
32 While visiting the Central Conservatory Beijing, I met a trumpet professor who had taken his acoustics exam with me years ago.
33 Central Conservatory Beijing
34 Visit to the new music school built in 2017 in Ningbo
35 Ningbo Music School
36 Ningbo Music School
37 Ningbo Music School
38 Training Session with Eva Königer, Mario Smetana and Majda Svitek at Ningbo Music School.
39 Ningbo Music School
40 Ningbo Music School
41 Ningbo Music School
42 Ningbo Music School
43 Ningbo Music School
44 Hailun Piano Factory Visit.
45 Hailun Piano Factory Visit.
46 Hailun Piano Factory Visit.
47 Hailun Piano Factory Visit.
Training sessions and parent-child groups 2016 at Kunming Music School.
With Eva Königer, Mario Smetana and Michaela Ulm-Aram.
48 Welcome Kumning 2016
49 Gesamtes Team mit Eva Königer
50 Kunming Eva Königer und Mario Smetana
51 Kunming XXX
52 Kunming XXX
53 Kunming Mario Smetana
54 Kunming Mario Smetana
55 Kunming Mario Smetana
56 Kunming Mario Smetana
57 Kunming Mario Smetana
58 Michaela Ulm-Aram
59 Michaela Ulm-Aram
60 Michaela Ulm-Aram
61 Mario Smetana
62 Mario Smetana
63 Michaela Ulm-Aram
64 Mario Smetana
65 Mario Smetana
66 Mario Smetana und Michaela Ulm-Aram
67 Eva Königer und Mario Smetana
68 Eva Königer und Mario Smetana
69 Eva Königer und Mario Smetana
70 Mario Smetana
Training Sessions and Parent-Child Groups with Majda Svitek and others at Ningbo Music School 2019
71 Training session
72 Training session
73 Training session
74 Presentation by Gu Qing at the Music and Live Show Beijing 2019
75 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
76 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
77 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
78 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
79 Ningbo 2019
80 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
81 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
82 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
83 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
84 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
86 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
87 Ningbo 2019
88 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
89 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
90 Parent-Child Groups in Ningbo
Ningbo and surrounding area
Chiang Kai Shek, opponent of Mao TseTung and after his escape founder of today’s Taiwan, was born in Fenghua about 50 km from Ningbo. During his warlord days he lived in a residence hidden in the Xikou Xuedou mountains near Ningbo.
Putuo Shan is a beautiful vacation and pilgrimage island in the East China Sea. However, with an air humidity of almost 100% and temperatures above 40°C, even the locals had their shirts stuck to their bodies – mine anyway.
01 Ningbo is a provincial city 300 km south of Shanghai with a population of about 6 million.
02 Ningbo
03 Impressive temple complex at the foot of the Xikou Xuedou Mountains.
04 Temple complex
05 Temple complex
06 Temple complex
07 Temple complex
08 Buddha
09 Observe proportion to the people!
10 Hike to Chiang Kai Shek’s residence hidden in the mountains.
11 Hike to Chiang Kai Shek’s residence hidden in the mountains.
12 His command center is only accessible on foot.
13 Chiang Kai Shek’s bedroom
14 In this chair he received his generals.
15 By hovercraft from Ningbo to Putuo Shan Island.
16 The boat, including its interior, dated back to the time before the opening of China and presumably served the party bigwigs for crossing to the island.
17 Picturesque coastline
18 The sea should rather be called yellow sea.
19 Coastline
20 Coastline
21 One of the numerous small temples.
22 One of the numerous small temples.
23 Large Buddha statue in a sprawling temple complex.
24 Temple complex
25 Temple complex
26 Religiosity mixed with tourism
27 Temple complex detail.
28 Religiosity mixed with tourism
29 Religiosity mixed with tourism
30 Religiosity mixed with tourism
31 Temple complex
32 Temple complex detail.
33 Buddha
34 Monks on pilgrimage
35 Coastline
36 Coastline
37 Coastline
38 Coastline
39 Monastery at the coast.
40 Monastery at the coast detail.
41 Monastery at the coast courtyard.
42 Study
43 Study
44 Monastery at the coast courtyard.
45 Monastery at the coast detail.
46 Monastery at the coast detail.
47 Monastery at the coast detail.
48 Monastery on the coast residential.
49 Monastery at the coast detail.
50 Monastery at the coast detail.
51 Typical for children when you want to take a picture souvenir.
52 Typical for children when you want to take a picture souvenir.
53 Coastline
54 Picture souvenir
55 Picture souvenir
56 Coast with lighthouse.
57 Another Monastery
58 Another Monastery
59 Another Monastery
60 Back to the village.
61 Residential buildings.
62 View over the village
63 Farewell in front of the hotel.
64 Farewell
Beijing’s parks and gardens
In the center of Beijing there are numerous huge, beautiful parks. For the population of Beijing the entrance is free, Tourists, whether Chinese or foreigners, pay a moderate entrance fee. The photos are from different parks (2010-2016).
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12 Staff during their lunch break.
13 Here you can be photographed in historical costumes.
14 In the background the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.
15 Result
16 Souvenir photo.
17 Nice view.
18 Nice view.
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26 Noble apartment building.
27 By cab to a craft market.
28 Craft market
29 Craft market
30 Craft market
31 Craft market
32 Waiting for the next transport.
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34 Sculptures in front
35 Shopping malls near the hotel
36 Local gorging street.
37 We stopped here. The next day we had a bad stomach upset.
38 Exclusive design hotel.
39 Room overlooking a Chinese pond.
40 On the 5th floor a huge terrace with a great restaurant. Barbecue under palm trees.
41 View from the terrace on Beijing’s largest train station for 3.5 million daily commuters.
42 Chaofeng – Gu Qing – Eva
Hiroshima University thanks.
For the spontaneous help of the Vienna Music Academy in rebuilding Hiroshima, among other things with 1,500 trees for the university campus, Hiroshima University expressed its gratitude by handing over a restored original koto with valuable ivory inlays, which was found only slightly damaged in a riverbed in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.
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Will be continued…
with pictures from various concert tours to Japan, Hongkong, Bangkok and Singapore
