Welcome to my website!

I am Roland Mair-Gruber, a musicologist, composer, and conductor dedicated to researching, analyzing, and performing music. This site offers a glimpse into my multifaceted musical pursuits and academic interests.

My research concentrates on regional music history, arrangement techniques, wind band studies, and video game music. As a conductor, I specialize in leading wind orchestras. My compositional portfolio encompasses film and media scores, works for wind orchestras, and pieces in the realms of jazz and popular music. Furthermore, I create arrangements for wind bands and various ensembles.

research

composition

arrangement

publications

View my list of publications on ORCID & PURE

books, articles

2020: Die Konstruktion des Perotinus Magnus: Über Namenszuschreibungen, Identifizierungsprozesse und die Suche nach der Persönlichkeit in der Perotin-Biographik, Master Thesis, University of Salzburg.
2017: with Elisa Breit: „Heal the World (Michael Jackson)“. In: Songlexikon. Encyclopedia of Songs. Ed. by Michael Fischer, Fernand Hörner and Christofer Jost, https://songlexikon.de/songs/healtheworld/.
2016: various texts in: Dokumente zu Musik und Migration aus Salzburger Sammlungen. Ed. by Nils Grosch, Salzburg: Artbook.

presentations and invited talks

2024: „Restoring the Light, Facing the Dark‘: Music in Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps between dystopia and utopia“, conference presentation, Game Over? – Dystopia x Utopia x Video Games, University of Salzburg, 16.11.2024.
2024: „Fundamentals of MEI encoding“, invited talk, University of Salzburg, winter semester 2023/24.
2022: „Leitmotifs in a galaxy far, far away“, invited talk, University of Salzburg, 05.12.2022.

reviews

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research projects

2022 to present: Digital Mozart Edition, Research Associate, https://dme.mozarteum.at/musik/edition/
2022-01 to 2022-08: Archival Processing of the Kurorchester Bad Gastein, Research Associate, University of Salzburg.
2021 to 2022: The Gaspar van Weerbeke Edition, Research Associate, https://gaspar-van-weerbeke.eu/gaspar-online-edition/.