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Scientific interests
- Acoustics of musical instruments
- The player-instrument interaction in woodwind instruments and stringed instruments
- Experimental methods for the analysis of musical instruments
- The teaching and learning process of physics
Curriculum Vitae
Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà was born in Les Borges del Camp (Catalonia, Spain). She is an active researcher in the field of Music Acoustics, with particular experience in string instruments (piano, harp, cello) and in woodwind instruments (clarinet, saxophone). She has a keen interest in both music and technology. Her musical background is in piano, lyrical singing and choral conducting. In 2014, she graduated in Industrial Technology Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona); during an Erasmus exchange in Helsinki, she studied ways to measure the motion of piano strings. She then moved to Paris to study Music Acoustics in the ATIAM master's programme (Acoustique, Traitement du signal, Informatique Appliqués à la Musique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and IRCAM, Paris). As part of her master's thesis in the "Lutheries - Acoustique - Musique" (LAM) laboratory, she investigated the harp playing technique. In 2016, back in Barcelona, she obtained a Masters in Science Teaching, another of her passions (Universitat de Barcelona).
Since April 2016 Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà has been living in Vienna, where she pursued her PhD studies within the project Transient Phenomena in Single-Reed Woodwind Instruments at the Department of Music Acoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since then, the clarinet has been added to her list of musical interests. She defended her PhD in February 2021, and her work was recognised with the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (2021) and with the Herta & Kurt Blaukopf-Award of the mdw.
In 2019, Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà joined the FFG project Repetition behaviour of piano actions, in collaboration with the Viennese piano manufacturer Feurich, where a new patented development for upright pianos was analysed.
In 2021, Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà received a fellowship within the Hertha Firnberg Programme for post-docs of the Austrian Science Fund FWF with the project Investigating cello sound production beyond ordinary bowing.
Since 2021 she has been teaching music acoustics to bachelor and master students, and since 2023 she has been a senior scientist at mdw.
You can check here the courses led by Dr Pàmies-Vilà at mdw:
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