Aim:
The Gustav Mahler Research Centre (GMRC) is intended as a place of exchange and discussion for the international Gustav Mahler research community in order to promote better networking and fruitful cooperation in the landscape that inspired the composer and in which he wrote his last great works.
Protagonists:
The establishment of the GMRC became a reality because of the co-operation between the Department of Music of the University of Innsbruck and the Foundation Euregio Cultural Centre Gustav Mahler Toblach-Dolomites. An international scholarly advisory board and a supporting team of collaborators are the core of the Research Centre.
Activities:
The GMRC ideates and organises international conferences and symposia on Mahler-related subjects.
A particular concern is to open up new perspectives for Mahler research through the exchange and co-operation between Mahler researchers from all over the world.
As a complementary and particularly important initiative, a forum for doctoral candidates with Mahler-related dissertations and early career researchers - the Gustav Mahler Research Centre Postgraduate Forum - was founded. The focus is on the new generation of Mahler scholars, whom we want to offer the opportunity to network and develop their own projects. The founding members of this forum are the PhD candidates whose doctoral advisors are members of the Advisory Board of the GMRC.
The GMRC is working on the conception and organisation of summer schools in Toblach for the intensive exchange between Mahler researchers of different generations. The summer school weeks in Toblach should include musicological conferences and workshops with the participation of senior researchers and doctoral students, as well as the annual meeting of Mahler doctoral students, lectures for a wider audience and project collaborations with the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks and other Mahler-related initiatives. In addition to conferences, workshops and summer schools, the GMRC also develops and realises smaller scale. At the moment we are working on the limited-time projects Young Composers and Gustav Mahler in Toblach as well as Music and Nature.
An online publication is planned.