To kick off the 2022/23 summer semester, the Mozarteum University is launching a new corporate design. The centerpiece is a "monumental" typography and a university website that is intended to inspire as well as inform as a digital communication port. The development process was accompanied by the two renowned digital agencies Dept (concept) and Pixelart (development).
Six finalists competed for the coveted prizes in the vocal category at the 15th International Mozart Competition on February 16, 2023 in the Solitär of the Mozarteum University. The 1st prize goes to Santiago Valentín Sánchez Barbadora, the 2nd prize to Chelsea Marilyn Zurflüh, and the 3rd prize to Dániel Foki.
The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival honours percussionist Vivi Vassileva with the Leonard Bernstein Award for outstanding young musicians. The award, which is endowed with 10,000 euros, will be presented at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in mid-July 2023.
Invitation for all students of the department (also with chamber music partners from other departments) to actively participate In the winter semester 2022/23, the Department of Wind & Percussion Instruments will start a pilot project and offer three public "Team Teaching Masterclasses" with two teachers of the department each during the academic year.
The first winners of the 15th International Mozart Competition have been announced. The 1st prize in the string quartet category and the traditional special prize of the Mozarteum Foundation for the best interpretation of a string quartet by W. A. Mozart go to the Arete Quartet, the 2nd prize to the Affinity Quartet and the 3rd prize to the Eden Quartet.
In the meeting with selected experts from the South-East Asian choral scene (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines), the long-term aim is to develop an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented training of choral teachers (school music, IGP (school music, IGP, choral conducting).
The ASEAN-European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) was founded in 1994 and today consists of more than 80 universities in about 20 countries. The university network aims to promote research and teaching activities between member universities in Europe and Southeast Asia.
In addition to the successful master's programme in wind orchestra conducting, the Mozarteum University, as a competent partner of the Salzburg Wind Music Association, started the part-time university course in wind orchestra conducting for the first time in March 2019, financed by the province of Salzburg.
On January 20 and 21, the Thomas Bernhard Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Scenography of the Mozarteum University, presented Philoktet by Heiner Müller, Gaia in a version by Till Ernecke and The Bacchae by Euripides, three directorial works on the theme of classical music at the Theater im KunstQuartier.
Save the date: 24 hours of seeing familiar faces, meeting people and sharing experiences!
Call for networking: The city of Salzburg wants to promote cooperation between artists, cultural actors, scientists and entrepreneurs in the urban area of Salzburg.
With the solidarity event "Woman_Life_Freedom" in the framework of "Practicing Care", the Mozarteum University wants to contribute to maintaining public attention on the criminal machinations and the "state-sanctioned killings" (according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) of the Iranian rulers. At the same time, we want to convey an impression of the concerns and diverse forms of protest, which is supported not least by countless artists.
On December 14, 2022, Elisabeth Eder, a teacher and researcher at the Department of Music Education Salzburg, was awarded the state prize "Award of Excellence" for the 40 best dissertations in Austria in the Aula der Wissenschaften in Vienna.
We wish all students, teachers, researchers, staff, artists and friends a Merry Christmas & a happy holiday season!
A great success for the PLUS, the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, the SALK and the Mozarteum University: The Ministry of Education, Science and Research has now approved research funding of three million euros for, among other things, Salzburg Collaborative Computing (SCC), a new high-performance computer for the universities of the Salzburg region that will usher in the research world of tomorrow.
Coaching and support program of trans- and interdisciplinary projects of art students on the topics of art, sustainability & socio-ecological transformation
Opera Out of Opera 2 is a European collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission's Creative Europe program, building on the results of Opera Out of Opera (2018-2020).
Attention composers: The application for ARCo - Art, Research and Creation 2023 is now open! The French-Austrian Academy for Contemporary Composition, a cooperation of the Mozarteum University and the GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille will take place from July 7 to 16, 2023 in Marseille - be part of it!
