mdw young research award 2025 presented: Austro-Filipino Mark Tullao receives award

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Six outstanding final projects from the fields of music and performing arts honored

Vice Rector Barbara Strack-Hanisch with the award winners

“The young research award is an Austria-wide initiative of the mdw for the early promotion of scientific and artistic-scientific talent. I am very pleased that the award has once again met with a great response this year and that it has been possible to highlight the diversity of the arts in schools.”

On September 25, 2025, the third MDW Young Research Award was presented at the MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The six young award winners are Elias Auzinger (BG/BRG/BORG Schärding), Viktoria Ganahl (Gymnasium Schillerstraße Feldkirch), Elsa Mitteregger (BORG Ternitz), Oscar Putzolu (GRG16 Maroltingergasse), Mark Tullao (Campus Augarten der Wiener Sängerknaben) und Katharina Zehetner (BRG Boerhaavegasse).

The MDW Young Research Award was presented to young people who, as part of their final exams, wrote a thesis (ABA) or diploma thesis on a topic related to music and the performing arts and conducted research or engaged in creative or artistic work in this field. This includes topics from the fields of music and health, film, voice training, composition, instrumentology, and popular music, but also acoustics, gender studies, and cultural management. The award aims to promote innovative and critical approaches by young people to scientific thinking and artistic creation in the fields of music and the performing arts. In this way, the MDW Young Research Award pursues one of the MDW’s central concerns: dialogue between art, science, and education in our society. The award ceremony was held at the MDW by Vice Rector for Teaching Barbara Strack-Hanisch.

Rector Ulrike Sych: “The young research award is an Austria-wide initiative of the mdw for early scientific and artistic-scientific promotion. I am delighted that the award has once again met with such a positive response this year and that it has helped to highlight the diversity of the arts in schools.”

Award winners

Elias Auzinger: “Stage fright and its effects on musical performances” (BG/BRG/BORG Schärding)

Viktoria Ganahl: “Kurt Schwitters’ ‘Ursonate’” (Gymnasium Schillerstraße Feldkirch)

Elsa Mitteregger: “From the Stanislavski System to Method Acting” (BORG Ternitz)

Oscar Putzolu: “Composition, Light & Color as Means of Visual Storytelling in Film – A Presentation Based on Selected Science Fiction Films” (GRG16 Maroltingergasse)

Mark Tullao: “The Sound of Silence. John Cage and his revolutionary works for New Music” (Campus Augarten of the Vienna Boys’ Choir)

Katharina Zehetner: “The influence of the Mafia on stars of the 1950s, using Frank Sinatra as an example” (BRG Boerhaavegasse)

Proud parents are Fe and Joffrey Tullao.