Sarah Nemtsov, renowned composer and university professor of composition at the Mozarteum University, will receive the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis 2025 for her outstanding contributions to contemporary music. The prize, which has been endowed with 10,000 euros since 2025, is one of the most important cultural prizes in Germany and is the only prize in the world to be awarded exclusively to female composers.
Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2022
The Mozarteum 2022 Research Competition has been decided! This year's award for particularly successful artistic-scientific research proposals goes to Heike Henning for her collaborative project proposal "Rethinking and Innovating Choral Musicking in the Digital Space", which is currently being prepared for submission to the Austrian Science Fund FWF in cooperation with the University of Liechtenstein and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.
Picture from left to right: Reinhard Gupfinger, Michael Worton (Jury), Erik A. Schroeder, Dame Janet Ritterman (Jury), Elisabeth Gutjahr, Heike Henning
The award for particularly successful scientific/artistic research proposals in 2022 went to Heike Henning (Instrumental & Vocal Pedagogy) for her collaborative project proposal "Rethinking and Innovating Choral Musicking in the Digital Space", which is currently being prepared for submission to the Austrian Science Fund FWF (in cooperation with the University of Liechtenstein and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences ).
Two further awards (highly commendable) went to student Eric Aren Schroeder (music theory with Juliane Brandes and baroque violin with Hiro Kurosaki), who will publish the composition and performance experiences of his opera buffa La Locandiera, and to Reinhard Gupfinger, Department of Fine Arts & Design, for his project proposal "Unsound - Sonic Urban Art Strategies".
We warmly congratulate the award winners and everyone who took part in RCM 2022!