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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.

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.

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 art and love of the viola led German Tcakulov from Vladikavkaz to St. Petersburg, on to Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe and now to Salzburg, where he took up a professorship for viola on 1 October 2024.

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.

On 10 October there will be another ‘Salzburg Alumni Meeting’ in London, organised by the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg with a warm invitation to all Mozarteum alumnae and alumni. In addition, we invite our alumnae and alumni to the big symphony concert at the Haus für Mozart on 23 October!

Judith Valerie Engel is an Austrian pianist, musicologist & feminist. After years of study in Salzburg, Helsinki and Vancouver, she is currently completing a PhD in Historical Musicology at Oxford University. She is a recipient of the Stone-Mallabar Doctoral Scholarship awarded by Oxford College Christ Church. She is also one of the ‘Public Scholars’ in the Public Scholars Initiative of the University of British Columbia. Both academically and artistically, her focus is on historical and contemporary women composers.

The symposium ‘Internalising’ serves the exchange of knowledge, findings, research results and methodological concepts around the topic of ‘Learning and practising in music’. Abstracts or short presentations of scientific lectures, workshops and poster presentations can be submitted. A publication in the form of a conference proceedings is planned.

With supplementary courses in Artistic Research, Inclusion & Diversity, International Expertise and Physio & Mental Coaching, the Mozarteum University will be offering students the opportunity to develop their individual profile from next semester onwards, in addition to the existing supplementary courses in Multimedia and Gender - Diversity - Arts.

In June, Cibrán Sierra Vázquez, Professor of Chamber Music, and his Cuarteto Quiroga were awarded the Medal of Honour of the Escuela Reina Sofia, the highest distinction of the renowned academic institution, by Queen Sofia of Spain. Juliane Banse, Professor of Solo Singing, was honoured with the Placa de la Escuela - congratulations!