Highlights 2013

In the context of the 2013 Mozarteum International Summer Academy we pursue for the second time a topic which occupied us already in 2009: "Humor, wit, irony and sarcasm in music". This rather unusual area we would like to explore further this year. Devoted to this subject, we will organize an International Composition Competition, supported by the renowned Ensemble Acrobat. Furthermore there will be also, as previously, a vocal and instrumental Competition "Humor in Music" in each of the three master class periods; and, in the same context of ideas we will have a little symposium, including a Roundtable, under the direction of Siegfried Mauser. In connection with our "Composer in Residence 2013", the renowned Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik, currently one of the most humorous of his profession, we hope that all these events will lead us to new discoveries and more knowledge and insight on the subject. Our wish is that the motto of "humor" should also influence several of our concert programs.
On the other hand we want to include some of the " regents of the year" into our planning of seminars and concerts: Wagner and Verdi of course, but also Britten, Hindemith, and the lesser known, but highly original and interesting French composer Charles Valentin Alkan, to whom we will dedicate a seminar and a faculty concert.
Last but not least we would like to point out our organ master class with the renowned organist Hannfried Lucke which will take place this summer in the famous Salzburg Franciscan church (with a baroque and a romantic organ), as well as our Department of Early Music in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen.

• Composition Competition