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Co-CreART is a four-year project of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, which is funded by the Climate and Energy Fund and was honoured with the Sustainability Award in Gold in November 2024.

And the winner is... The university's internal Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) took place for the 6th time in 2024 and has established itself as a fixed part of the university's annual schedule. On December 3, the best submissions were honored at the Award Ceremony with the involvement of the international RCM jury.

The people of Salzburg can look forward to a very special concert next March, as Christian Thielemann, General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and former Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, has been invited to guest conduct the Mozarteum Wind Philharmonic Orchestra Salzburg.

Exhibition by Anna* Marina Ernst, Melina Harting, Mirjam Kämmerer, Sophia Kraus, Leonie Lindinger and Vanessa Veljković from the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg at the Salzburger Kunstverein.

Head of Section Elmar Pichl, BMBWF and Head of Section Christian Holzer, BMK presented the Sustainability Award 2024 in Gold to the Co-CreART project team yesterday. Co-Creating Change! Vice-Rector Mario Kostal and Elke Zobl from the Inter-University Science & Art Centre accepted the award at a festive awards ceremony in the Vienna Boys' Choir Concert Hall.

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!