This winter semester, the directing students at the Thomas Bernhard Institute are developing workshop productions based on the examination of contemporary theatre texts. The content of the preparatory courses focussed on the experimental writing of authors.
Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers" will be the second production in the 2023/24 winter semester of the Department of Opera & Music Theatre to take to the stage of the Max Schlereth Saal from 26 January. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about so-called "new music", the major challenges for budding artists and insights into pedagogical practice during rehearsals.
The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg finances an ensemble scholarship for students or graduates of the Mozarteum University - interdisciplinary concepts are welcome!
Coaching and support program of trans- and interdisciplinary projects of art students on the topics of art, sustainability & socio-ecological transformation
Exhibition by Josefa Wiedemann, Toni Ofner, Maria Geiser, Vanessa Friedl, Melanie Forsthuber, and Clara Elixmann from the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, held at the Salzburg Kunstverein.
4 course periods. 13 additional courses. 60 masterclasses. 61 lecturers. Over 500 participants from all over the world: browse the programme of the International Summer Academy 2024 now!
The University Mozarteum Salzburg is looking for art practitioners to enroll in the PhD in the Arts, a doctoral programme in artistic research. Artists from any field of practice are encouraged to apply, including but not limited to music, the visual arts, theatre, dance, film, digital media, and design.
With her production, Rosamund Gilmore embarked on a journey into the subconscious and combined the deep psychological layers of the fairy tale with the film-visualized works of Claudia Lehmann's students.
Six finalists out of a total of 19 participants from the Mozarteum University competed yesterday with an overall artistic concept in the string and wind instrument categories for the coveted The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize 2023, which is once again endowed with 20,000 euros this year. The prize honours an outstanding student personality who knows how to impress with their musical creativity, poetry and unique charisma. The outstanding winner is 25-year-old cellist Ema Krečič.
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, a graduate of the Department of Musicology at the Mozarteum University, was recently honoured with the Award of Excellence for her dissertation on "Music, culture and cultural activities in the special camps of the Soviet occupying power 1945 - 1950 in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR". Congratulations!
Applications for ARCO - Art, Research and Creation Opus 2024 are now open! The French-Austrian Academy for Contemporary Composition, a cooperation between the Mozarteum University and the GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille, will take place in Salzburg from 3 to 13 July 2024.
And the winner is... The university's internal Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) took place for the 5th time in 2023 and has established itself as a fixed part of the university's annual schedule. On December 6, the best submissions were honored at the Award Ceremony with the involvement of the international RCM jury.
Memorizing music plays an important role for instrumentalists and has been little researched to date. Elisabeth Eder took on this topic in her dissertation and was able to identify or categorize 100 learning strategies and show aspects that support memorization.
Recorder player Max Volbers and baroque violinist Mayumi Hirasaki were recently awarded an OPUS KLASSIK 2023. A conversation about the lively character of early music, the search for the new and the intensive research into the repertoire at the Department of Early Music at the Mozarteum University.
A conversation with director Rosamund Gilmore about Engelbert Humperdinck's fairytale play "Hansel and Gretel", which premieres on December 7 in the Max Schlereth Saal at the Mozarteum University. Insights into the directing concept, into the joint development and creation of roles and about truthfulness on the opera stage.
Anton Bruckner and the Mozarteum University. A review with a look ahead to the commemorative year 2024 on Bruckner's 200th birthday.
On November 27, the 2023 Cultural Fund Awards of the City of Salzburg were presented at the Solitär. Among others, Andreas Bernhofer, Thomas Ballhausen and Gordon Safari from the Mozarteum University were honored.
Rector Elisabeth Gutjahr has been Vice President of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC) since 2021 and was confirmed as Vice President with 94% of the votes at the General Assembly during the AEC Congress on November 11 in The Hague.
Anna Hechenblaickner (flute graduate of Bernhard Krabatsch) was awarded the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research's award of appreciation on November 21 in Vienna.
After the successful first edition of "With Dylan on the Road", a competitive travel scholarship program of the Mozarteum University, the project inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan is entering the next round.
