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.
In 2023, the Students' Union at the Mozarteum University awarded the Art Prize for the fifth time. The competition is open to all regular students of the Department of Fine Arts & Design.
The English vocal ensemble Voces8 is one of the world's leading a cappella formations. The three ladies and five gentlemen set standards in unaccompanied solo singing in terms of intonation, legato culture, vocal homogeneity and stylistic diversity. Voces8 celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023. At the invitation of the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Bach Society, the ensemble will be available for a workshop on November 20.
Unqualified specialists for science, technology and art: There is a particularly large shortage of teachers in STEAM subjects. The qualification of unqualified and lateral entrants is a good way to close this gap in a timely manner. ProQ-STEAM investigates how early entry or transition into the teaching profession in science subjects, technology & design and art & design succeeds and how professional identity is formed.
Exactly 20 years ago, a Senate was elected for the first time at the Mozarteum University. In 1998, the then Mozarteum University became an art university, and the structure of its governing bodies changed. The entire college, which included the heads of all departments (then: departments), became the University College and later the Senate.
Peter Schreiner, Senior Lecturer for Photography & New Media at the Department of Fine Arts and Design, will be awarded the Annual Scholarship for Photography in 2023. The scholarship is awarded annually by the province of Salzburg and has been endowed with Euro 12,000 since 2023.
Starting on December 7, the Department of Opera & Music Theater, together with the voice classes and students of Claudia Lehmann, will bring Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy tale play "Hansel and Gretel" to the stage of the Max Schlereth Hall at the Mozarteum University. Five questions to the musical director of the production, Kai Röhrig.
Sigrid Langrehr, Senior Lecturer for Photography, New Media & Graphics at the Department of Fine Arts and Design, will receive the 2023 Annual Fellowship for Media Art of the Province of Salzburg.
