Impressum

 

Owner, Marialena Joan Fernandes, M.A. 

Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

  

1950: Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India

1954-1965: Convent of Jesus and Mary Primary and Secondary School

1967: Licentiate of the Royal School of Music

1966+1967: Prize Winner at Indo-American Piano Competition

1969: Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at St. Xavier´s College, Mumbai

1970: Prize Winner at All India Beethoven Bicentenary Competition

1971: Scholarship to Munich/ Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts

1975: Performers Diploma  with Distinctions

1977+1981: Prize Winner at International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna

1977+1978: Prize Winner at International Bösendorfer Piano Competition in Vienna

1975-78: Chamber Music and Music Pedagogy at the then Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts

1985-1988: Music Sociology at the then Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts

1988: Masters of Philosophy (Magister der Künste)

1988 to the present: Professor at the Joseph Haydn Conservatoire in Eisenstadt, Austria

1991 to the present Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Wien)

Research in "Spread of Indian Music in German speaking Europe"

Research in "The Konkani Song" with special reference to Mangalore (Karnataka) and Goa

 

Technician:

Ing. Turgut Mermetas

E-Mail: turgut.mermertas@smartit.at

 

Text Research

Lourenço de Noronha

E-Mail: noronha@aon.at

 

Ancestral home: Pandavaddo, Chorao, Ilhas, Goa 403 001, India

Philosophy and Theology in Switzerland from 1953-1961

Secondary School Teacher in Dar es Salaam from 1961-1967

Educational Theory in Münster/W., Germany from 1967-1969

Teacher in Mbeya, Tanzania + Field research for the Ph.D. Thesis 

from 1969 to 1972

Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Vienna in 1976

Lecturer in Kiswahili Literature at the University of Vienna >from 1974 to 2000

Research in Konkani Song as a hobby from 1959 to the present

 

Music:

Original version as published by the authors.