The Ö1 Talentebörse Composition Prize worth 10,000 euros is awarded every two years by Ö1 and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and will be awarded for the ninth time in 2024/2025. The composition prize is a composition commission for a chamber music work, which may also include electronics.
On July 16, this year's edition of the top-class French-Austrian Academy of Composition came to a successful close in Marseille with four concerts. For the first time, the prize winners of the International Mozart Competition were invited to Marseille and performed in the concerts.
Independent scientific publications, peer-reviewed conference papers and teaching assignments at renowned institutions: Our students contribute significantly to representing the Mozarteum University in artistic-scientific research and pedagogy in music theory nationally and internationally. Congratulations to our students in the ZKF Music Theory.
Oscar Jockel is currently Kirill Petrenko's conducting assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic and a conducting fellow of the Karajan Academy for two years. He has been appointed the first Composer in Residence of the Brucknerhaus Linz for the 2020/21 season. Previous commissions range from works for solo instruments to sound installations and orchestral works, the latter for the Bruckner Orchestra Linz or the Camerata Salzburg, for example.
The prestigious Herbert von Karajan Prize, worth a total of 50,000 euros, has been awarded for the 6th time this year as part of the Salzburg Easter Festival. The prize winner is, among others, the composer and conductor Oscar Jockel, who was featured in the celebrated production "Westbam meets Wagner".
Award-winning composer Sarah Nemtsov is one of the most sought-after musical voices of her generation. A conversation about her professorship at the Mozarteum University, her personal creative process, and one of her 2022 highlights.
Raimonda Žiūkaitė's opera composition "Salt is My Heritage" was chosen as the Work of the Year in the category of stage works by the Composers' Union of Lithuania. The work was performed by Lidia Luciano (soprano), students of the Mozarteum University and the œnm under the direction of Félix Marest. The premiere took place on October 28, 2021, as part of the Crossroads Festival. It was directed by Giulia Giammona and the libretto was written by Franz Jäger.
A portrait of the legendary composer Helmut Lachenmann and a conversation with Johannes Maria Staud about the planned Helmut Lachenmann Days at the Mozarteum University.
Laure M. Hiendl has been an assistant professor* of composition at the Mozarteum University since 2021, and her new piece is a harbinger of a festival to be held in Nuremberg in July 2022.
With the beginning of the winter semester 2018/19, the Mozarteum University gets four more top-class professors*: Martin Grubinger for Percussion Instruments - Classical Multipercussion Instruments, Benjamin Kammerer for Piano and Piano Didactics in Innsbruck, Johannes Maria Staud for Composition and Corina Forthuber for Design: Technology. Textile.
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