DR GERALD FLORIAN MESSNER, MUSICOLOGIST, ARTIST, PERFORMER, WRITER, COMPOSER, AUSTRALIA/AUSTRIA He is a graduate of both, the University of Vienna (PhD Musicology/Ethnomusicology) and the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria (Performing Arts Degree) and have been teaching,...
Read MoreDR GERALD FLORIAN MESSNER,
MUSICOLOGIST, ARTIST, PERFORMER, WRITER, COMPOSER, AUSTRALIA/AUSTRIA
He is a graduate of
both, the University of Vienna (PhD Musicology/Ethnomusicology) and the
University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria (Performing Arts
Degree) and have been teaching, writing, producing, directing, performing, and
exhibiting art work internationally.
He has
also conducted extensive fieldwork in the areas of ritual performance and
various traditional singing styles in Bulgaria, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and
Mexico. He was assistant professor at Vienna University, senior lecturer at
Deakin University, Australia, a guest professor at the Department for World
Arts and Cultures at UCLA, USA, amongst the many other positions that he
obtained.
He restarted to work
more seriously as an artist quite late in life after his academic retirement.
He had solo and group art exhibitions in the following countries: UAE (Abu
Dhabi & Dubai), Austria (Vienna), China (Shanghai) and Kazakhstan
(Nur-Sultan).
