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  • © Dariia Samoilenko
    8.4.2025
    Braver than before - Mariia Tkachenko 

    Mariia Tkachenko lived in Kyiv until March 2022, where she received singing and violin lessons as a child and has already appeared in several TV productions. Her acting studies at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television were interrupted by the war in Ukraine.

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  • © Musikum Grödig
    17.3.2025
    A passionate (folk) music educator - Rupert Pföß 

    Alumnus Rupert Pföß has been working as a music teacher at Musikum Salzburg since 1996 and has been head of the folk music and harmonica department since 2012. He is also an extended board member of the Salzburger Volksliedwerk. His busy seminar and jury activities at various music weeks and music competitions enrich his everyday life as a musician time and again. 

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  • © Sofiia Musina
    20.11.2024
    From Kiev to Salzburg - Sofiia Musina 

    The flutist and instrumental music teacher Sofiia Musina came to Salzburg to study at the Mozarteum University in April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine and obtained a Master's degree in ‘Master of Musical Art. Educational and Professional Programme: Musical Art’. She wrote her master's thesis on the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

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  • © Frank Veronsky
    5.11.2024
    Art will always be there, even in the most difficult times - Meral Guneyman 

    Meral Guneyman is a versatile classical musician, with numerous releases, who is comfortable in both pop and jazz music, has transcribed many original works and is also an enthusiastic arranger and improviser. Her ability to move between classical and jazz with lightning speed and conviction is a rarity. In 2021, her arrangements of classic David Bowie songs were presented for the first time on ‘Steinway-Spirio’ - a high-resolution self-playing system of the highest quality.

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  • Seda Röder | © Hasan Yavuz
    22.8.2023
    Seda Röder - Author, Consultant & Entrepreneur 

    Seda Röder, formerly a concert pianist and now an author, entrepreneur and philanthropist who works to promote creativity in society and organizations. She is a sought-after speaker, advisor to DAX companies, and founder of the Sonophilia Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of creativity and critical thinking.

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  • Oscar Jockel | © Tom Thiele
    1.7.2023
    Oscar Jockel - conductor and composer 

    Oscar Jockel is currently Kirill Petrenko's conducting assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic and a conducting fellow of the Karajan Academy for two years. He has been appointed the first Composer in Residence of the Brucknerhaus Linz for the 2020/21 season. Previous commissions range from works for solo instruments to sound installations and orchestral works, the latter for the Bruckner Orchestra Linz or the Camerata Salzburg, for example.

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  • Theresa Prähauser / Helena Adler | © Eva trifft
    17.3.2023
    Stephanie Prähauser alias Helena Adler - Author 

    In 2020, the author Helena Adler's second novel Die Infantin trägt den Scheitel links was published by Jung und Jung. The book landed at number five on the ORF bestseller list in April 2020; she opened the O-Töne literature festival in 2020 with a reading from the book. In August 2020, the novel was longlisted for the German Book Prize. At the end of August 2022, her third book was published: Fretten, which was nominated for the Austrian Book Prize 2022.

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