The visual artist Gertrud Fischbacher and the multimedia expert Marius Schebella received the Förderpreis für Wissenschaft und Forschung. Since 2019, as a collective, they have been investigating the connection between textiles and sound and exploring new possibilities of expression in them, inviting visitors to experience and experience them in exhibitions, performances and installations.
Promotion Prize for Science & Research (endowment 6,000 euros) to Gertrud Fischbacher & Marius Schebella
The two researchers received the award, endowed with 6,000 euros, for their work on the joint project "Nexus of Textile and Sound", which was the first Salzburg project to be accepted by the FWF's Austrian Science Fund into the PEEK Top Research Program and with which they were able to prevail in a competitive selection process reviewed by an international jury.
This is the first time that PEEK funding has gone to both the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.
The Tyrolean State Prize for Art, worth €14,000, goes to Johannes Maria Staud, a composer born in Innsbruck and professor of composition at the Mozarteum University. The jury unanimously agreed that Staud is one of Austria's most important contemporary composers. We send our warmest congratulations!
The Salzburg AG Art Prize in the field of visual arts for students at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, worth EUR 10,000 and awarded for the first time, goes to Lukas Stangl (born 1992, Austria). With the Salzburg AG Art Prize, Salzburg AG promotes artistic engagement with the theme of ‘energy’. Theme of the first edition: Data Whispers: Making the Invisible Visible – congratulations!
The Ö1 Composition Prize 2025, endowed with 10,000 euros, goes to the young composer Christiaan Willemse. He is studying composition in the postgraduate programme with Johannes Maria Staud at the Mozarteum University and impressed the jury with his personal and technically advanced works and compositional flair - congratulations!
