Limina Festival

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The annual LIMINA festival, hosted by the Institute for New Music at the Mozarteum University, promotes international cooperation between composers and students of contemporary music from different countries. LIMINA offers young musicians both performing and networking opportunities, and focuses on building and expanding international relationships.

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Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg

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Every year, the LIMINA Festival invites young composition students from various European countries to develop and present their works, participate in lectures and exchange ideas with students from the Mozarteum University. Participants are selected in advance through a Call For Scores.The festival's rich programme of concerts and lectures is complemented by social events and special productions.

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4.11.2025

LIMINA Contemporary Music Festival 2024

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16.2.2026

„It's perfectly okay not to like certain works!“

On March 5, ARCOENSEMBLE will present five world premieres as part of the concert “sinews and flesh.” The ensemble's pianist and Mozarteum University alumna Alba Llorach Roca and young composer Yannai Schrire talk in an interview about what makes contemporary music so special, the intensive collaboration between instrumentalists and composers during rehearsals, and give us an insight into the creative process behind their own compositions.

Interview
6.10.2025

Early music as a sounding board for the future

Cycles, Seasons, Sounds of the Future: November sees the second staging on the interdisciplinary ORA – Original Sound Festival at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

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14.4.2025

Dreamy, gestural, interwoven, humorous - or a chaotic hustle and bustle

Tina Geroldinger, a young Austrian composer, and Maurycy Hartman, clarinettist and founding member of the Ensemble for Contemporary Music, in conversation about the new ensemble, opportunities and possibilities for contemporary music in the current music world and about special moments that arise when people engage intensively with each other musically.

Interview
30.9.2024

Moz-Art-Zone: Offers for schools in the winter semester 2024/25

As part of the Moz-Art-Zone, we link special events for school classes to the broad spectrum of university programmes and thus want to give children and young people access to music, art and culture. The focus is on young people meeting (young) artists who offer an insight into the artistic work of the various departments at the Mozarteum University. The Moz-Art-Zone offers a colourful mix of activities, from a visit to the opera with an artist talk and theatre laboratory to special educational concerts and hands-on workshops in the graphics workshop.

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Applications are welcomed from composers of any age and nationality who are currently studying in Europe.

Composers who have already been selected as participants in the festival twice previously cannot apply.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: TBC
(For your information: deadline for complete scores and parts: TBC)

Application documents should be sent by e-mail to limina@moz.ac.at in the form of a single, merged pdf document or as a link to a cloud storage. Please note: applications received after the deadline or missing any of the required files cannot be considered!

Send us the following:

An indication of which ensemble you want to compose for (information below). Please choose only one ensemble!
Short biography in English
Link(s) to (a) recording(s) of any of your recent works (links to the scores may be attached in addition to the recordings).
A copy of a document proving your current enrolment in composition studies in Europe (e.g. confirmation of enrolment; up-to-date student card with a visible expiry date; a signed letter from your university/music college). Failure to include this document will result in the application being rejected.
Short letter of motivation (let us know why you want to participate, your reasons for choosing that ensemble, what compositional ideas you would have for your chosen ensemble in case you are selected, etc.).

Participants will be chosen by the ensemble members, with decisions being based predominantly on the quality and style of the candidate's recent pieces, as demonstrated by the recordings submitted with the application.

Selected students will be provided with accommodation in Salzburg for the duration of the Festival, and will also receive up to €150.00 towards their travel costs.

The larger ensembles can also perform pieces for a semi-full instrumentation, but we encourage you to consider composing for the full ensemble.

Finished compositions which fulfil all the requirements will also be considered.

The festival and the ensembles reserve the right to cancel the performance of the selected composer’s piece if the composer fails to provide a good quality score and parts on time, or in the case of any other objective issue that could arise.

Following selection and confirmation, active participation in the festival is obligatory. If the selected composer is not able to attend the festival, their composition (even if already finished) will not be performed!

All applicants will be informed of the outcome of the selection process by: TBC
Upon being selected, composers will be given more detailed information about the composition requirements.

All questions welcome: limina@moz.ac.at