27.10.2025
Art meets energy: Salzburg AG Art Prize awarded
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21.10.2025A triad of talent Following a successful masterclass and a sold-out concert with the Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg in March 2025, Christian Thielemann will take up a position as Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Mozarteum University in October 2026. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Claudio Martínez Mehner will also begin teaching in the 2026/27 academic year.
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17.10.2025Noh SeungJu receives one-year grant for music Composer Noh SeungJu, who was born in Seoul (South Korea) and is currently resident in Salzburg, has been awarded the 2025 Music Grant by the State of Salzburg. Congratulations!
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14.10.2025Alek Niemiro receives the Austrian Art Alumni Award 2025 Alek Niemiro, a graduate of the Thomas Bernhard Institute's directing programme, has been awarded the new Austrian Art Alumni Award for his project ‘Last Hour of Resistance’. Starting this year, the award will be presented annually by the BMFWF and Austrian art universities to selected outstanding graduates, and comes with a twelve-month scholarship worth €24,000. Congratulations!
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10.10.2025Grand opening of the new Mozarteum University building "UMAK" We are proud to announce that, after two and a half years of construction work, the Mozarteum University’s newest building, located in Schwarzstraße 36, is now complete and officially open! This exciting new space, with a surface area of 1,895m2, is dedicated to teaching, rehearsing, research, advancement and appreciation of the arts, and digital arts.
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6.10.2025Resilience is more than just coping with stress Franziska Wallner, Head of the Institute for Coaching & Career at the Mozarteum University, on resilience, careers and change in musicians' education.
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6.10.2025Early 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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1.10.2025House of NiceIn the summer semester of 2024, students studying design: technology.textiles developed the ‘House of Nice’ – a conceptual pop-up store that uses handmade products to open up individual perspectives on the theme of time. The bachelor's students developed, designed and produced products and presented them in the form of a perspective shop.
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23.9.2025Mozarteum stories – dialogue with the past The Platform on Politics of the Past at the Mozarteum University Salzburg deals with cultures of remembrance from the 1920s to the 1990s. The critical reflection on the university's political past, especially during the periods of Austrofascism, National Socialism and the post-war era, plays just as important a role as art projects against forgetting and for greater awareness. Researchers are currently conducing a citizen research project that invites the local community to share relevant documents and contemporary accounts.
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12.9.2025Ars Docendi 2025: State prize for excellence in teaching goes to Bernhard Gwiggner The artist and art pedagogue Ao. Univ.-Prof. MMag. Bernhard Gwiggner has been awarded the 2025 Ars Docendi prize for teaching excellence by the Austrian state. The interdisciplinary cooperation "tradition2go: zwischen kultur und wahnsinn" ("between culture and madness") was a collaboration during the 2023/34 academic year between the Sculpture Class at the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Museum. The project went hand in hand with the exhibition "Masks, Traditional Costumes, Cult Objects - 100 Years of Folk Culture" at the Salzburger Monatsschlössl Hellbrunn.
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11.9.2025New Supplementary Certificate: Art & Sustainability Competence in sustainability is competence for the future. Artists and educators carry a great responsibility but also have great potential for not only reflecting on social change but also contributing to it. The start of academic year 2025/2026 brings with it the start of a new elective studies block in Art & Sustainability, for which students can obtain a supplementary certificate. It offers the chance to explore the complex relationship between sustainable developments in our university and society at large, and artistic and scholarly practice.
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9.9.2025Payam Yazdani receives Boy-Gobert Prize 2025 The Boy Gobert Prize for young actors in the Hamburg theatre scene, worth €10,000, has been awarded to Payam Yazdani, a 2025 graduate of the Mozarteum University’s Thomas Bernhard Institute. We congratulate him on his success!
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8.9.2025Music Multis: Next Generation - Apply now! Interested young people still have until 21st September 2025 to register for the Musik-Multis: Next Generation support programme at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, which is unique in Austria. A few limited places are still available!
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21.8.2025‘Bella Musica’ Tour 2025: Mozart meets PucciniPress release -
12.8.202512 prize winners at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy Under the artistic direction of Hannfried Lucke, four intensive weeks came to an end on Saturday, featuring 57 masterclasses in 13 subjects, Young Excellence classes and numerous additional offerings on health and professional qualification for musicians. A total of 12 prize winners were honoured for their outstanding achievements.
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6.8.2025Paths to self-employment - Franziska Strohmayr The versatile and renowned violinist, project manager and lecturer Franziska Strohmayr grew up in Augsburg and came to Salzburg to study, where she still lives today after graduating from the Mozarteum University under Prof. Martin Mumelter and Prof. Wolfgang Gratzer and from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under Prof. Jacqueline Ross.
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24.7.2025This was the work show of the department of scenographyOn June 26 and 27, the Department of Scenography invited to the annual tour, work show and summer party.
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15.7.2025Dorothee Oberlinger receives the Grand Culture Prize from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung RheinlandThe internationally renowned recorder player, ensemble leader, conductor and university professor of recorder, Dorothee Oberlinger, has been awarded the Grand Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland 2025. The award is endowed with 30,000 euros and is one of the most prestigious German culture prizes. Congratulations!
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14.7.2025In memoriam Reinhart von Gutzeit It is with great sorrow that the Mozarteum University announces the passing of its former rector, Univ.-Prof. Reinhart von Gutzeit, who died on 11th July 2025 in Lucerne after a long illness, surrounded by his family.
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