Member of the Symposium

Helmi Vent is a Professor at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria. She has also served as the University artistic director of the “TanzMusikTheaterWerkstatt” since 1983. Her graduate work includes music education and music performance (violin, emphasis on violin-piano duos) at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Cologne, Germany and physical education science with emphasis on dance at the University of Bonn. Professor Vent has also pursued supplementary studies in education science, philosophy at the University of Cologne and dance at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, Germany. In addition to her teaching with University Mozarteum, she also teaches secondary schools, Pedagogical Academy, and Düsseldorf University/Germany. The focus of her various publications and academic expertise is the education, performance and aesthetics of music and dance, and experimental music and dance as well. Her teaching and performance activities have brought her to various stages, academies and universities in Europe, USA, Mongolia, Japan, Australia, and South, West and Central Africa.

Professor Vent participated in the national competition for artistic gymnastics from 1961-1964; the international competitions for rhythmical gymnastics from 1964-1971 and was awarded the title of the German Championships (group formation) in 1970. Her work as an international concert violinist from 1965-72 took her primarily to the USA, where her focus was on violin-piano duos and to Africa as a member of various string ensembles. From 1970-1983 she worked to establish and serve as the artistic director for the “Forum für ExperimentellenTanz, Duisburg, Germany.”

She has been awarded prizes for choreographic works in Essen and Berlin, Germany; Nyon, Switzerland; Paris, France and Kyoto, Japan. She has also published CDs and DVDs of her own stage compositions that encompass a variety of her work in the fields of music and dance.

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