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10.6.2025

That was INDI Day 2025

On 8 May, the Mozarteum University Salzburg held its fourth Inclusion and Diversity Day (INDI Day). INDI Day is a biennial event organised by the Working Group for Inclusion and Diversity in cooperation with the Department of Family, Gender, Disability & Diversity at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, the Stefan Zweig University of Education Salzburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences on the premises of the Mozarteum University.

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7.1.2025

International Summer Course at the Orff Institute

Save the date: The International Summer Course is in preparation and will take place in Salzburg from July 6-12, 2025.

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20.12.2024

Ensemble scholarship: A (one-year) Start Up for Ensemble(s)

The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg finances an ensemble scholarship for students or graduates of the Mozarteum University - interdisciplinary concepts are welcome!

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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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16.4.2024

Awarding of ensemble scholarship

The presentation concert of the scholarship holders of the newly created ensemble scholarship A (one-year) Start Up for Ensemble(s) took place in the impressive ambience of Schloss Leopoldskron at the beginning of April. In cooperation with "The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg", over 44.000 euros will be made available to students or graduates of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

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11.1.2024

Ensemble scholarship: A (one-year) Start Up for Ensemble(s)

The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg finances an ensemble scholarship for students or graduates of the Mozarteum University - interdisciplinary concepts are welcome!

Open Call
1.11.2023

Agnes Kern - Music & dance teacher

Alumnae & Alumni Stories
13.7.2023

Life stories, future wishes and memories: VITA

In a cross-generational project, the students of the Orff Institute developed a lively network of shared experiences together with students and teachers of the elementary school Aigen, the association Orchesterprojekt, the percussionist Gerhard Laber, the composer Angelà Tröndle, and the dancers Martha Prosser and Alexandra Eibner.

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28.4.2023

Alumni Meeting at the Orff Institute

Over 100 former students and faculty from various cohorts will return to their alma mater on May 5 & 6. The reunion will take place at the ORFF Institute with live music and offers opportunities for info, experience and material exchange, singing and dancing together, open workshops and most importantly, seeing familiar faces again. Even those on short notice are welcome!

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1.7.2022

Part-time university course at the Orff Institute

Starting in the winter semester 2022/23, the one-year university course "Music and Dance in Social Work and Integrative Pedagogy" will be offered again and is aimed at pedagogues of all disciplines as well as musicians who are interested in the use of music and dance in social work and integrative, inclusive pedagogy. Part-time, it offers participants an expansion of their professional qualifications.

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2.7.2021

Pandora I & II

Pandora Part I - Her of Tomorrow is an intergenerational dance and music project developed together with the community of the Volksschule Aigen, the Orchesterprojekt Salzburg, the Orff-Institut and freelance artists*. Pandora Part II - Artificial Cataclysm is a dance theater piece that portrays single individuals and connects them through a series of tragedies.

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28.6.2021

Anniversary x 3: Celebration weekend at the Orff Institute

The University Mozarteum will conclude the three major anniversaries of the Orff Year with an extensive festive weekend from July 2 to 4, 2021. The ceremony on Friday will focus on the possibilities opened up by inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in artistic, pedagogical and scientific contexts.

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20.3.2021

60 years Orff Institute

2020 marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Carl Orff (10.7.1895-29.3.1982). His stage work "Carmina Burana" is internationally known as well as his approach to music education and the percussion instruments named after him. His concept of elementary music is about initiating creative music making from the beginning and thinking musical learning from improvisation.

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