Kian Jazdi
Axel Petri-Preis
Marlene Schleicher
Jonathan Pengl

A masterclass filled with fresh ideas, creative projects, and new perspectives!
You’ll have the chance to develop an innovative concert format with others, which will be performed during the 2025/26 season at the Wiener Konzerthaus and TONALi in Hamburg.

What to expect?
We see our work at the intersection of music and society.The isaCommunity takes place in summer 2025 on the campus of the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. During a week of hands-on workshops, you’ll combine artistic work with social engagement. Together with like-minded individuals, you’ll develop your ideas and bring them to life on stage. 

Your environment:
Four inspiring experts in project design, community music, directing, and the music industry will support you.
A creative campus in Vienna with hundreds of international music students participating in various exciting masterclasses. 

Your program:
💡 Practical workshops: Turn your ideas into reality!
💡 Rehearsals: Bring your repertoire and integrate it into a collaboratively developed concert format.
💡 Reflection: What does musical community work mean to you — and what can we achieve with it?
💡 Concert design brainstorm: Create new concert concepts.
💡 Panels and field research: We are developing a panel discussion with other students as our target group and we will also immerse ourselves into Vienna to work directly with the people.

The highlight
The concert format you develop together during the week will be performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus and TONALi Hamburg!

Who is isaCommunity for?
This is the right place for you if:
✅ you are a singer or musician interested in interdisciplinary projects, community work, and social issues AND
✅ you are at least in your 4th semester at a music university or pop academy, OR
✅ you are a graduate (maximum of 3 years post-graduation, up to 33 years old) OR
✅ if you possess exceptional skills on an instrument or with your voice. There are no stylistic boundaries, classical Western instruments, popular and traditional instruments are equally welcome. (Artistic suitability will be assessed via your application video.)

Arrival: July 20, 2025
Course dates: July 21–27, 2025
Departure: July 28, 2025

Location
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ( Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna)

Language of instruction
English

Alongside the master classes given by well-known, leading artistic personalities, isa also offers participants additional learning opportunities in the form of workshops, lectures, and coaching sessions.
All supplementary workshops and lectures are accessible only in combination with a master class and are included in the course fee.

Application deadline: January 2- April 15, 2025

Requirements:
🎥 Create a short introduction video (max. 3 minutes, in English).
🎵 Send us a musical video (unedited, max. 12 months old – no professional recording required).
(Upload as video links)

Course tuition fee:
one week € 430

In justified cases, grants of up to €230 can be awarded upon application to the head of the masterclass.

Master class including practice opportunities
Participation in workshops and lectures.
Free admission to all concerts of the isaFestival.

The course fee must be paid by July 1, 2025, via bank transfer, after receiving confirmation of participation.

From July 1, 2025 the course fee can only be reimbursed in proven cases of force majeure (e.g. illness, accident, death in the family, etc.). In no case will the registration fee be refunded.

Questions?

📩 Organizational inquiries:
Monika Mistlbachner
mistlbachner@mdw.ac.at

📩 Content-related inquiries:
Kian Jazdi
jazdi-motlagh@mdw.ac.at