Martin Schneider (graduate baroque violin / baroque viola with Mayumi Hirasaki, master's degree in historical performance practice with Reinhard Goebel) was awarded the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research's appreciation prize on 21 November 2024 in Vienna.
Violence against women (and minorities) is omnipresent, firmly anchored in our patriarchal structures and is one of the most widespread human rights violations. In order to increase the visibility of the numerous initiatives of the United Nations and other organisations in relation to this topic, the UN campaign ‘Orange the World’ (OTW) introduced a uniform, strong subject colour. In keeping with its mission as an educational institution with social responsibility, the Mozarteum University is also taking part in ‘Orange the World’ during the ‘16 days against gender-based violence’ (25 November - 10 December).
The flutist and instrumental music teacher Sofiia Musina came to Salzburg to study at the Mozarteum University in April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine and obtained a Master's degree in ‘Master of Musical Art. Educational and Professional Programme: Musical Art’. She wrote her master's thesis on the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.
Vincenzo Bellini's highly romantic bel canto opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi celebrates its premiere in the Max Schlereth Saal on 10 December under the direction of Alexander von Pfeil and musical direction of Gernot Sahler. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about Bellini's inventiveness and the challenge of dealing with special stage situations.
The ‘With Dylan on the Road’ travel grant was conceived for the first time in 2022, enabling artistic teams to travel in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and develop projects. The trips took them to European countries as well as (North and South) American and African countries and brought back a variety of artistic works, from performance to song, from graphic work to theatre pieces, from video installations to artistically sophisticated documentation. With ‘With Dylan on the Road 2’, the Asian region (Japan, Korea, but also Turkey) is now also included in the above-mentioned geographical area, or rather opened up by the ten new artistic-scientific projects.
The harpist Isla Biffin, a Master's student at the Mozarteum University, has been awarded the 2024/25 annual scholarship from the Fondation Armand & Nicky Delvaux under the patronage of the Fondation de Luxembourg for her outstanding academic achievements. The scholarship is endowed with 20,000 euros. Our warmest congratulations!
The grant for sculpture, plastic and object 2024 from the province of Salzburg goes to the two artists Gertrud Fischbacher from the Institute for Open Arts at the Mozarteum University and Marius Schebella from the Department of Creative Technologies at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Their interactive spatial installation ‘Walk On By’, which artistically explores the link between textiles and sound and will be on display in the entrance area of the Traklhaus from spring 2025, will be honoured. The scholarship (incl. production costs) is endowed with 8,000 euros.
Meral Guneyman is a versatile classical musician, with numerous releases, who is comfortable in both pop and jazz music, has transcribed many original works and is also an enthusiastic arranger and improviser. Her ability to move between classical and jazz with lightning speed and conviction is a rarity. In 2021, her arrangements of classic David Bowie songs were presented for the first time on ‘Steinway-Spirio’ - a high-resolution self-playing system of the highest quality.
His ‘unconditional devotion and love’ for music, as his colleague Howard Arman aptly put it, will always be remembered and continue to inspire the Mozarteum University. Laurence Traiger passed away on 18 October 2024 at the age of 68.
With Erasmus+, students can spend up to twelve months per study cycle at a partner institution in another European country, get to know cities, gain experience, make new contacts and take ECTS credits home with them. The Mozarteum University offers numerous opportunities at many Erasmus+ partner universities worldwide. Share your experiences now and win!
You choose the material on the test field. And then the playing begins. How does your new body feel? What does it tempt you to do? You are not alone on this exploration, the others must also find themselves in their foreign bodies. A series of recordings accompany you on this journey in an attempt to create an environment that enables collective thinking and relationships, to rethink how we are together and what we learn from each other.
In cooperation between the Mozarteum University and the Andreas Hofer Society, the newly reconstructed collection of works by the former Salzburg court conductor Andreas Hofer ‘ver sacrum seu flores musici’ was performed on both sides of the border between Germany and Austria in 2021.
Diploma production by Paulo Jamil Sieweck
Diploma Production by Till Ernecke
The annual conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology will take place at the Mozarteum University from 17-19 October 2024. It will focus on and discuss music-related phenomena that are related to ideas of democracy and democratic principles.
The next World Expo will take place in Osaka from 13 April to 13 October 2025. The ambitious motto points to the future and should be at the centre of a project involving a trip (max. one week), a trip to Osaka for EXPO 2025. Interdisciplinary tandems from the university location Salzburg are cordially invited to develop project ideas and apply for the travel grant.
FAiR stands for Female Artist in Residence and is a funding programme for young female artists on their way to becoming university professors. It was recently launched at the Mozarteum University and is committed to greater fairness and equal opportunities in the professional lives of women at music and art universities.
Great success for the Mozarteum University: The FWF (Austrian Science Fund) is funding the project ‘Aesthetic judgement in community’ by Iris Laner with 485,430 euros. The individual project is dedicated to the role of the community in art education theory, school practice and education policy and is being carried out in collaboration with partners from the universities in Cologne, Siegen, London and Pretoria.
The Mozarteum University congratulates its alumna Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin on receiving the Grand Art Prize of the State of Salzburg 2024! With this award, which is being presented to a female composer for the first time this year, the State of Salzburg is sending a strong signal in favour of the importance and creativity of women in music. The Grand Art Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded annually alternately in the fields of visual arts, literature, music and performing arts.
With the approval of research funding totalling 2.5 million euros from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the foundation has been laid for the development of a state-of-the-art X-Reality Lab - the digital centrepiece of the new Mozarteum University site at Kurgarten.
