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Oscar Jockel, a master's student in orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum University, has won first prize in the competition for the assistant conducting position with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Jockel will serve as assistant conductor to the Berliner Philharmoniker and principal conductor Kyrill Petrenko for one year beginning in the fall of 2022. In addition, he will spend two years as an academician at the Karajan Academy and present his own portrait concert.

At the end of the summer semester 2021, students, teachers and external participants met at the Zistelalm on the Gaisberg to discuss the results and plans of the Spot On MozART project. We were there for you.

On 25 and 26 June 2021, the SZENE Salzburg will be the setting for one of the most popular choral works of the 20th century: Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".

The game project "Black Day," which was created with young people from the NMS Lehen as part of the interdisciplinary artistic as well as cultural and media education research project schnitt # stellen, received a Prix Ars Electronica Award U14. After a Prix Ars Electronica last year and the European Youth Culture Award in the Science and Research category, this is the third major award for the research project.

The rediscovery and revival of (choral) works of the Baroque are matters close to the heart of Jörn Hinnerk Andresen, who has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Mozarteum University since fall 2019.