Horst Haubrich
(Academy Director)

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Tel: 0171 / 1464541

Simon Osterhold
(Contact person Erding / academy deputy director)

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Kai Karin Baum
(Marketing / course development)

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Andreas Lisibach
(Ansprechpartner Bern)

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Tel: 0041 / 796119770

Georg Gabler
(Contact person Vienna)

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Axel Maier
(Course manager)

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Christian Gschneidner (lecturer)

Christian Gschneidner conveys practical experience and techniques acquired through hundreds of music productions and stage events. His sound can be enjoyed by listening to the following examples:
Advertising campaigns by AUDI, VW, MacDonalds, OMV and events held by RTL, BR, Allianz, BMW, Bayer. He also acted as music producer for artists recorded by BMG, SONY, EDEL, SPV and for German feature films of the "Tatort" series; he also produced concerts and sound carriers working with Chris de Burgh, Robin Gibb, Peter Maffay, Midge Ure, Paul Carrack, Tony Carey, Alannah Myles, Cutting Crew, Russ Ballard, Natural, Mandoki Soulmates, Right Said Fred

Domenico Utpadel (lecturer)

Sound editor, music producer and studio manager. He's currently working as  technical director and sound editor at the University of Arts, Berlin - Sound Studies, at the media authority Berlin/Brandenburg (Mabb), and at Frontin' Lab., Berlin (CEO); he also teaches at the "Academy Deutsche Pop," Berlin and at the L4 Institute.
He holds workshops for audio engineering and popular audio software. He has been working in the music industry since 1994/95 and has since participated in a great number of productions covering very diverse musical styles. In 2005 he received his degree as Audio Engineer.

Markus Stang (lecturer)

Diplom engineer for Electronic and IT Engineering, majorrig in multimedia technology. Diploma thesis: Semantic Blindup mix (Stereo in 5.1 and 7.1) at ISS Fraunhofer in Erlangen.

Currently working as employed producer for the radio station Antenne Bayern focussing on the Morning Show, promotion and sound design.
Self-employed studio manager and software developer (Sound2ning OHG), as well as musician with "The Funky Blues Rabbits".

Johannes Schilling (lecturer)

has participated in more than 1000 live events, working as project leader, FOH, foldback engineer or system engineer. He also runs a PA rental service in which he is responsible for the entire audio realisation of various projects, such as fairs and exhibitions, industrial events, concerts, as well as tour,  cultural and theatre events. He has already worked with the following artists: Deichkind, Hubert von Goisern, Leningrad Cowboys, Manfred Mann´s Earth Band, Rainhard Fendrich, Rage, Schandmaul, The Sweet, Smokie and Uriah Heep

Matthias Heimlicher (lecturer)

Musician, producer, arranger, engineer. Musician and producer responsible for more than 400 globally available picture and sound carriers. Owner and manager of a state-of-the-art studio and a global musicians' network. Four solo productions with various musical guest artists from USA, France, Germany, Switzerland: Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Lukather, Dann Huff, Abraham Laboriel, Kirk Whalum, Take 6, Michael Landau etc.
Apart from working as producer he also gives lectures on music and engineering for bands and producers.

Christian Auer (lecturer)

His career began in the early 80s: Studied School Music, meanwhile worked with the TNT Theater London (America), Theatro Compagnia Perhaps (soiree Futuriste´), Landesbühne Bruchsal, Berliner Tournee; studied Composition for Cinema and Television; founder and manager of the "ValentinKarlstadttheater" Munich; apart from playing concerts as pianist and musical director he acted as producer for the musical theatre branch of the tour organiser "Thespiskarren"; founder of the GdbR Kurzweil and Wohlklang (with Karl-Heinz Hummel, Benjamin Sahler, Maria Auer), Festival Director of the "Schlossfestspiele Ortenburg", Director of the "Dehnberger Hof Theater".

Susanne Brugger (lecturer)

Studied law at LMU Munich (1st State Exam 1999 / 2nd State Exam 2002), 2001 legal intern at the lawyers' firm Sasse & Rossbach, Munich, 2002 legal intern at BMG Music Publishing, mediation training at FU Hagen, focus on family mediation, since 2002 self employed lawyer focussing on media law, 2006 - 2008 Product Manager for music at Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH; since 2008 head of the in-house music production department at Verlagsgruppe Weltbild

Eduard Denk (lecturer)

Eduard Denk is a full-time employee at the Private University Seeburg Castle where he is responsible for research funding and fund raising. After graduating from the Austrian Fund Raising Academy he has been working in the area of raising funds for public and cultural entities for more than 10 years.

Paul-Emmanuel Meyrat (lecturer)

Musician (PVP / Chlyklass) and working in the legal department of the Cooperative Society of Music Authors and Publishers in Switzerland, SUISA. Being a musician and a jurist, he has been able to gain valuable experience in the music business, which he now conveys to students at various musical institutes in Switzerland through workshops and lectures. He focuses on topics such as a general introduction to legal issues, information about the various copyright collectives (especially SUISA) and an outline of the most important contracts in the music industry.

Frank Lenggenhager (lecturer)

After graduating from Bern University (Media sciences, History, Politics) he founded the Lautstark Music GmbH, which grew to become one of Switzerland's leading promotion agencies in the music sector.  His customers include national and international record labels, event agencies, management agencies and various artists such as Marilyn Manson, Mando Diao, Orishas, Chemical Brothers or Unheilig. Frank Lenggenhager holds workshops and seminars on a regular basis and since 2008 he has been teaching "Marketing and Promotion in the Event and Music Business" at the "ebam Academy", Zurich.

Bruno Prandi (lecturer)

Former musician, music producer, studio manager, event manager and director, graphic designer and communication consultant. After graduating from a post-graduate course in Scenography at the University of  Arts in Zurich, he is currently working as concept and design developer for the marketing  and communication agency "kpm" in Bern and is also employed at the Swiss Performers' Consortium SIG. While at university, he acted as production director, sound and lighting designer for the play "Nostalgia", which led him to Wroclaw (Poland) and Tel Aviv (Israel); as event manager he also organised and held fairs, congresses and events of various magnitudes. He also created the script for the opening of the Lötschberg Tunnel and the lighting concept for Bern's Night of the Museums.

Susanne Schuller (lecturer)

Professor Susanne Schuller, Ph.D. works for the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Bavaria (KVB) and covers the fields of corporate development, strategic consulting and QA; she continues working as a lecturer for practical media management in Erding. She has released a reference book (Increasing Patient Compliance: Basic approaches to factors of influences) as well as several reference essays. Among these are "Institutional Economy" (2004) and "Technology, Culture, Coordination and Transaction Cost" (2002).

Günther Wildner (lecturer)

Günther Wildner (Mag.), born 1971 in Vienna. Studied Musical Sciences, Theatre and Sociology at Vienna University. Passed a postgraduate course as "academically certified cultural manager (MAS)" at the Institute for  Cultural Management and Cultural Sciences which is part of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Positions & Activities: Founder and manager of the music business service agency „Wildner Music“ (Management & Music publishing), General Secretary  and manager of the Austrian Music Council  (ÖMR), Member of the Board of the MKAG (Guild of Musicians-Composers-Authors), Member of the Board of the Austrian Culture Council, research associate and lecturer (Music Business) at the Institute for Popular Music at the Musical University Vienna,  musician performing live and in the studio (E-Bass, Guitar, Vocals) for Thomas Raab, Roadhouse and others.

Moritz Möller (lecturer)

Programme director, event manager, booker, proprietor, solicitor, band manager

Has been working as partner in one of the major artist and event agencies for 12 years. As such he organised and held more than 4000 live events working with artists such as Kool & The Gang, Status Quo, Uriah Heap, Die Prinzen, Klostertaler, DJ Ötzi, No Angels, Münchner Zwietracht, Hansi Hinterseer and many more; he also worked with countless regional cover bands.

For more than 10 years he has been running a model and hostess agency; his agency provided the complete hostess staff for the 2010 DJ Bobo tour.

Manager of the all-female band „Midnight Ladies“ for 2 years.

Member of the Federal German Association for the Promoters and Event Business (bdv)

Tanja Oster (lecturer)

Tanja Oster provides students with all the basic skills required for organizing art related exhibitions. As a cultural scientist, she already worked for museums focussing on art history and regional studies while continuing her studies of European Ethnology at the Munich university LMU. In that time she also worked with independet stakeholders in the fields of art and culture, most recently for the Munich art gallery of contemporary arts, the "Lothringer 13". Currently she is working as a freelancer conveying contents relating to science, business and politics.

Anna-Katharina Esche (lecturer)

is the executive director of the company fairconcept GmbH for trade fair and event management. Since obtaining her business degree in 2000, she has been planning and implementing national and international event projects for medium-sized companies and large corporations. Apart from that she has also been teaching for more than 10 years as Director of the Training Course Trade Fair and Event Management (IHK), as Main Speaker for the Seminar Alliance of Trade Fairs on German-speaking markets for the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA) and as speaker at various event-related formats. Anna-Katharina Esche recognizes that the human factor is a major factor of success when it comes to project work. As a certified Reiss Profile Master she is therefore able to support people and companies in the areas of team development, leadership and implementing change processes. 

Erika Eunnyung Chun (lecturer)

Erika Eunnyung Chun from Seoul, South Korea is a lecturer for texture and musical form, also a university certified pianist, composer and media composer (University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna); she received various international awards as pianist and composer in the areas of jazz, contemporary music and media music such as 1st prize at "Get Wings" of Steinwayhaus Vienna, Austria (2000), 1st prize in the 34th Elena Rombro-Stepanow piano competition, Vienna, Austria (2003), 1st prize in the Bösendorfer piano competition, Vienna, Austria (2004), nominated with "Golden Rain" at the Film Music Festival "Hollywood in Vienna", Austria (2009); she is also responsible for the opening theme of the on-line game "Escaria" - escaria.com (2009)

Martin Villiger (lecturer)

Martin Villiger is a composer who attended the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Zurich after graduating from secondary school and this is also when he began composing for multi-media shows and films. He is famous for his various compositions for advertising and films such as the Swiss television documentaries «Das Ende der Swissair» (Swissair's end) by Hansjörg Zumstein or «Bertrand Piccard – Das Leben als Ballonfahrt» (Bertrand Piccard – Life as a balloon voyage) by Otto C. Honegger. His video-clip DVD «The Voyage» (2004) was the first Dolby-Surround album ever to be created by a Swiss musician and it was well recognized in all of Switzerland. His compositions also comprise popular music and circus music. His personal favourite, however, is "On-the-spot compositions" which are performed with guest musicians, in the course of which music is created out of the moment.

Daniel Pharos (lecturer)

is a freelancer in the areas composition and sound design. So far he has participated in more than 90 projects including 75 computer games such as "A New Beginning" (Deadalic/Deep Silver), which has been awarded with the German Developer's Award for the best soundtrack. The game "Dungeons" made it No. 1 on the German PC game charts. He also works as a freelancer doing composition and business development for Dynamedion, the largest German company for computer game soundtracks (400 projects including Crysis 2 alongside Hans Zimmer, Toy Story 3 PSP, Halo Legends, Alan Wake...).

Michael Pagenstedt (lecturer)

is a composer and audio engineer. He has composed various soundtracks for television and movie productions and is responsible for the audio implementation of numerous advertising campaigns. After studying Music and graduating from SAE in Munich, he worked as an Assistant Producer in Chick Corea's MAD Hatter Studios, Hollywood, CA. Afterwards, he successfully established his audio studio "sound in progess" based in Cologne, where he has been responsible for various music productions for movies and television projects. He was awarded with the Rias Television Award for the coverage of the US election "Amerika zwischen Angst und Aufbruch -Peter Klöppel unterwegs in einem zerrissenen Land” (The United States between agony and action - Peter Klöppel's voyage through a divided country), broadcasted by the German TV channel RTL. He also received the award "Goldenes Megaphon" for the "Best national spot of the year" and the reddot award 2006 for the TV spot "Die Flosse" Shark Project as well as a golden record for the album "Lovers Forever" by Marshall & Alexander.

Joe Ehrhardt (lecturer)

For more than 15 years Joe Ehrhardt has been working as self-employed advert graphics designer focussing on the entertainment sector. His art is featured on countless CD covers, posters, publications and more. He is also regularly involved in the creative and technical development of website projects. He runs the media office of the University of Applied Management in Erding and also works as a lecturer for Media Design and is working in the field of university marketing. Furthermore he owns a music label / publishing company and is involved in artist management. His one great hobby? It must be his job!

Steffen Reinke (lecturer)

A photographer by trade, he studied Media IT at the Polytechnic University Harz and has been programming browser games for 7 years. In the course of his university studies he also partook in the production of games such as Andaloria and Ogame. Since February 2008 he has been working at Mediatainment GmbH based in Freiburg. There he was deeply involved in the creation of Katruro and 1001. Apart from his expert knowledge on several web languages (PHP, Javascrpit, Flash, Ajax, Xhtml, Xml, DTD) he also possesses considerable expertise in the area of graphics design.

Jan Miethke (lecturer)

is an accredited designer and studied Communication Design at the University in the advertising city of Düsseldorf. For more than 12 years he has been developing concepts and designs for brand products and television stations. In the course of his career he has worked as freelance and employed designer and he now owns the design office "dasknackt design" near Munich.

Olivier Izzo (Dozent)

Studied IT and received further training to become a web designer. For more than ten years he has been working as a freelancer for various companies, creating their websites. His focus is on graphic design but he also possesses experience producing short film and designing CD covers and posters. Apart from design, his second passion is music; he took part in several productions and sometimes works as a live sound engineer.