Chaker, Sarah
Sarah Chaker is assistant professor at the Department of Music Sociology at mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. She studied Music in the Mass Media/German Studies at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Her research interests include the fields of street music, popular music (especially metal) and music mediation. In 2023, she was awarded the Austrian State Prize Ars Docendi for excellent teaching.
Petri-Preis, Axel
Axel Petri-Preis is senior scientist and deputy director at the Department for Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Making (IMP) at the mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Previously, he worked as a freelance music mediator for institutions such as Neue Oper Wien, Philharmonie Luxemburg, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Music Medition (IJMM), co-spokesperson of the Forum Music Mediation at colleges and universities, and sounding board member for the IG Musikvermittlung. His research focuses on the education and training of musicians, on the social-transformative potential of music mediation, and on diversity-sensitive and power-critical music mediation.
Sarah Chaker (Dr. phil.) studied musicology and German language at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Department for Music Sociology at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Her current research interests include street music, the transdisciplinary analysis of music, history, theories and methods of music sociology, popular music (in particular metal music), and Musikvermittlung.
Axel Petri-Preis (Mag. art.) studied music education, German philology and musicology in Vienna. He has been working in the field of Musikvermittlung for more than ten years and his projects received multiple awards. Currently he is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education (IMP) at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and works on a PhD thesis about the learning trajectories of classical musicians in regards to Musikvermittlung.