Vita
Magdalena is a classical and experimental violinist and vocalist based somewhere in Berlin/Basel/Reykjavik. Her education entails a BA of Classical Violin in Cologne, the Tonali Stage Academy, some Anthropology in Berlin and a Master of Experimental Music in Iceland. Magdalena is practitioner of the Art of Hosting and founding member of the Werkstatt des Wandels. Her current musical Solo project and alter Ego is called magdalunja - the one who dances with the contaminated.
Schools:
>Violin: University of Music and Dance, Cologne
>Experimental Music: Iceland University of the Arts
>Cultural Studies: Humboldt University, Berlin
>Tonali Stage Academy for artistic & social Entrepreneurship, Hamburg
2025
>Duo magdalunja&Rrapoport
>Teaching 1:1 & hosting music circles for adults with special needs
2024
>Initiator and Host of Werkstatt des Wandels - Cocreation and Change-making for More-than-Human matters
2023
>Techernofix - a performative exploration of Greenwashing and Earth Grief // Reeperbahnfestival Hamburg // Louis Voelkel, Ilja Gussarov and more
>Mythologica 5 by Tri:utopie // Felix Festival Kölner Philharmonie
>on Tour with AnnenMayKantereit
>MOMO - deep listening. Concert Performance // TONALi
2022
>Tri:utopie is Prizewinner of HUGO Competition // Montforter Zwischentöne
>Wolkentraum - a utopian festival with interdisciplinary art and social institutions. Concept and realization together with 10 students.
2021
>Kora. Konzert einer Koralle. Concert Performance with students. Ableton live, texts, J.S. Bach and Video. // TONALi
>Echo chamber of solitude. Audio installation in a bunker, movement, improvisation, video // BOA Aachen
1998
>born
Learning with:
Gilles Apap, Iva Bittova, Daniel Austrich, Daniel Rowland, Adelina Oprean (classical), Frank Gratkowski, Paulo Álvares (improvising), Richard Gwilt (baroque)
Mindful Music Making
Art of Hosting
Deep listening
Soil and Seeds
Readings:
Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway
The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Undercommens. Fugitive planning and black studies, Stefano Hareny & Fred Morton
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin
