+++ Study Information Days 2027 for many of our studies: all dates can be found in the event calendar! +++
Save the date: The International Summer Course 2027 at the Orff-Institut is currently in the planning phase. Further details will be announced once arrangements have been confirmed.
Clear the stage for the next generation: With “Mittendrin – Young Artists,” a long-term coaching project was launched in the 2025/26 season with the goal of passing on a concert format that has been successful for nearly 20 years as part of the International Mozarteum Foundation’s cultural education program. The project was developed in close collaboration with the Department of Elementary Music and Dance Education (Orff Institute) and the Department of Music Education at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, as well as Musikum Salzburg.
The Mozarteum University Salzburg warmly congratulates all graduates who celebrated their achievement at the ceremony on June 16th 2026 in the Solitär.
Establishing and developing the profile of an ensemble is one of the most demanding and, at the same time, most appealing challenges in artistic development. Many globally successful ensembles were formed during their studies, laying the foundation for an international chamber music career. However, existing study programmes alone can only provide limited incentives and framework conditions for this. The ensemble scholarship is the answer to this: convincing project proposals receive financial support for a period of one year to realise specific artistic projects.
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.
The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg finances an ensemble scholarship for students or graduates of the Mozarteum University - interdisciplinary concepts are welcome!
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.
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.
The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg finances an ensemble scholarship for students or graduates of the Mozarteum University - interdisciplinary concepts are welcome!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
