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Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2022
Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2022
05.12.2022
Awards & Successes
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!
We warmly congratulate the winners of the first Vindobona Song Competition at the Mozarteum University, which took place from 15 to 17 December 2025. In addition to Quang Nguyen, a student of Bernd Valentin and Pauliina Tukiainen, who received the first prize of €6,000, Miriam Bitschnau was awarded the second prize of €3,000 and Gabija Utaraitė and Alice Dreier shared the third prize of €1,500. The prize of €2,000 for the most convincing student piano performance went to Miquel Esquinas.
Leonor Dill received an Award of Excellence for her dissertation entitled ‘Schubert's Metamorphoses. C.G. Jung's Archetype Theory as a Basis for Musical Analysis – An Investigation of the Creative Process’. Congratulations!
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!
