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News … Home News International Summer Academy enters the finale with a concert of prize winners Summer Academy enters the finale with a concert of the prize winners 12.08.2022 Press release © Christian Schneider They will present excerpts from their repertoire on August 20 at 7:30 pm in the Max Schlereth Hall. The event takes place in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. The prizes are donated by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg. After a two-year break due to the pandemic and not entirely easy travel conditions, the International Summer Academy Mozarteum was relaunched with a very gratifying 438 participants and 538 course bookings from 52 nations. The average age was 21 years. The most represented nation was Germany with 60 participants, followed by South Korea (47) and the United States (43). China (32) and Japan (30) followed closely. Austria was represented by 24 participants and Italy by 23. Six participants* came from Ukraine, supported by a full scholarship through the University Mozarteum's Ukraine Aid Fund, financed by donations and income from concerts. The most popular master classes were traditionally those for piano, violin and voice. Master classes with renowned artists offer extraordinary opportunities to work intensively and exclusively with internationally active interpreters and to learn from them. "My participation in the International Summer Academy was one of the musical and personal highlights of my life so far. The teachers are among the best in the world and the students came from all over the world, which made for a special cultural exchange and musical education. A personal highlight of the master class was the possibility to visit other courses, from which I learned a lot every day" as Tim De Vries from the Netherlands from Christian Altenburger's master class pointed out. This year's lecturers included: Christian Altenburger, Pierre Amoyal, Zakhar Bron, Ya-Fei Chuang, Mario Diaz, Barbara Doll, Andreas Frölich, Alexander Gilman, Michaela Girardi, Wally Hase, Christopher Hinterhuber, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Robert Levin, Barbara Lübke, Hannfried Lucke, Leonel Morales, Valentin Radutiu, Thomas Riebl, Paul Roczek, Andreas Schablas, Markus Schirmer, Andreas Schmidt, Herbert Schuch, Sergiu Schwartz, Christoph Strehl, Wilfried Strehle, Claudius Tanski, John Thomasson, Kirill Troussov, Pauliina Tukiainen, Philipp Tutzer, Michael Vaiman, Arie Vardi, Andreas Weber and Dina Yoffe. The program and the prize winners will be announced shortly before the concert due to the last third course period still in progress. There will be one selection concert per course period. Laureate concert of the International Summer Academy 2022: Saturday, August 20, 7:30 p.m. in the Max Schlereth Hall, Mozarteum University, Mirabellplatz 1 Tickets for the laureate concert: 40,- to 60,- Euro available at the ticket office of the Mozarteum Foundation www.mozarteum.at/kartenbuero and at the box office.

News … Home News Shun Oi Wins Next Generation Conductors Academy and Competition Shun Oi wins Next Generation Conductors Academy 25.08.2022 Awards & Successes Congratulations to Shun Oi for winning the 1st prize at the international Next-Generation Conductors Academy and Competition in Hiroshima! On top he received the special prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary composition Blossoming II by Toshio Hosokawa.  Shun Oi was born in Japan in 1993. From 2012 to 2014 he studied piano at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris with Jean-Marie Cottet and continued his studies with Andreas Groethuysen at the Mozarteum University (Bachelor degree 2019). From 2015 to 2019, he studied orchestral conducting in the class of Bruno Weil, Alexander Drčar, Johannes Kalitzke and Reinhard Goebel, followed by master's studies in the class of Ion Marin, Alexander Drčar and Reinhard Goebel. In addition, Oi completed a bachelor's degree in historical keyboard instruments in the class of Christine Schornsheim at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich; starting next fall, he will follow this with a master's degree with Mikayel Balyan at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Perhaps also interesting ... Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli 21.5.2026 Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli  The only voice teacher Cecilia Bartoli has ever had is her mother, the soprano Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni. From 3 to 8 August 2026, the Mozarteum International Summer Academy will once again offer young professionals a unique opportunity to work personally with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli. News Ö1 Talent Exchange: Composition Prize 2025 27.2.2026 Ö1 Talent Exchange: Composition Prize 2025  The Ö1 Talentebörse Composition Prize in the amount of 10,000 euros is awarded by Ö1 and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and will be announced for the eleventh time in 2026. The composition prize is a composition commission for a chamber music work, which may also include electronics. Open Call Study with Christian Thielemann: New Orchestral Conducting Class from October 2026 6.2.2026 Study with Christian Thielemann: New Orchestral Conducting Class from October 2026  From October 2026, students at Mozarteum University Salzburg will have the opportunity to gain in-depth insight into orchestral conducting. Christian Thielemann, together with his assistants Martin Fuchsberger and Jobst Schneiderat, will assume responsibility for the artistic training of a select group of aspiring orchestral conductors. Registration for the audition is open until 28 February 2026. News Awards for Outstanding Master's Theses 2023/24 13.1.2026 Awards for Outstanding Master's Theses 2023/24  Prizes for an outstanding Master's thesis 2023/24 have been awarded to Tim Anselm Gebel, Carlos Goikoetxea Cancho and Andreas Johannes Neubacher - congratulations! Awards & Successes

Building on the experience of the two previous funding periods, in which most partner organisations were already involved, transfer formats in the STEAM area are being developed for the target groups of employees at the knowledge and technology transfer interfaces, researchers, students, graduates and stakeholders in the (creative) economy. The aim here is to build bridges between STEM disciplines and the artistic-creative sector.

News … Home News Mozarteum University at the Cultural Poster Award 202 Mozarteum University at the Cultural Poster Award 2022 29.09.2022 Awards & Successes Sandra Steindl On September 28, 2022, the City and Province of Salzburg, ORF Landesstudio Salzburg and Progress Werbung once again awarded prizes for the best cultural posters of the past year at the traditional Kulturplakatpreis ceremony. The Department of Fine Arts & Design of the Mozarteum University won 2nd place with its poster for the Tour 2022 "Jellybubble", which was endowed with 3000 euros. The poster was designed by Gerhard Andraschko-Sorgo, lecturer for visual design at the Mozarteum University and managing director of the design studio Linie3. The department has two reasons to be happy. This year, Progress-Werbung Salzburg announced a trophy competition in which two designs by students of the Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Mozarteum University were selected. The trophy design "More than Paper" by Mario Plattner (Innsbruck location) was selected for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Culture Poster Award as well as for the best series and Clara Elixmann's design from Salzburg was selected as a trophy for the special format of the Culture Poster Award. Perhaps also interesting ... In memoriam Andrej Hovrin 14.9.2026 In memoriam Andrej Hovrin  It is with great dismay and deep sorrow that we have learned of the far-too-early passing of our esteemed accompanist and colleague, Andrej Hovrin. In memoriam Funding & Calls for proposals (german only) 1.9.2026 Funding & Calls for proposals (german only)  Open Call Awards & achievements (german only) 1.9.2026 Awards & achievements (german only)  Awards & Successes Bella Musica Tour 2026: Concert for Radio Vaticana 21.8.2026 Bella Musica Tour 2026: Concert for Radio Vaticana  Two violins from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s personal collection will accompany this year’s Italian tour of the Bella Musica Pre-College Ensemble of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, conducted by Stefan David Hummel. Mozart’s extraordinary childhood violin and his concert violin, both from the collection of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, will be heard in Rome in September 2026. Press release

Tracing the topicality of content and music: Under the leadership of the Forum Salzburger Volkskultur, a project was started to record the textual and musical variants of Silent Night! Holy Night!, which is jointly supervised by Wolfgang Dreier-Andres for the Salzburger Volksliedwerk and Thomas Hochradner of the Mozarteum University for the Silent Night Society.

Another piece of normality returned and the Mozarteum University hosted another alumni and emeriti gathering on June 30. We met amidst the exhibition "Achtung International - Salzburg and 100 Years of the International Society for New Music" in the foyer of the Mozarteum University for a drink. Matthew Werley gave a guided tour of the exhibition afterwards and the evening ended with a visit to Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'incoronazione di Poppea".

The Sustainability Challenge invites master's and advanced bachelor's students from all fields of study to apply for interdisciplinary courses on sustainability with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals, to gain practical experience and ECTS. They work with companies, ministries or NGOs on concrete sustainability projects from the field, while the theoretical input is provided by lecturers from the seven participating universities.

At the end of the 1970s, a group of so-called "school musicians" of the subjects A1, A2 and IGP left the Mozarteum University (at that time still a university) as graduates and have nevertheless always remained in contact - with each other but also with their alma mater. After the general "forced break" of the last two years, this year thirteen alumni and alumnae from different regions and professional fields met again in Innsbruck. May many more meetings follow!

The warlike events of the last week shake the foundations of our confidence in a Europe of peace and coexistence of many nations and peoples.

The controversial UG Amendment 2021 was passed in the National Council on March 24, 2021, however, the Federal Council objected in its session on March 30, 2021. Thus, the amendment cannot enter into force for the time being.

After the Senate and the University Council of the University Mozarteum Salzburg announced the re-election of Rector Prof.in Elisabeth Gutjahr in February 2021, her team was also re-elected in May 2021. Hannfried Lucke (Vice Rector for Arts), Mario Kostal (Vice Rector for Teaching) and Anastasia Weinberger (Vice Rector for Resources) will continue to steer the fortunes of the University alongside Elisabeth Gutjahr.

In a meeting with the senate chairpersons of Austrian universities at the end of October, representatives of the Ministry of Education provided information about a planned amendment to the Universities Act. The intention to disempower the senates and thus massively restrict the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of science and art is evident.

News … Home News Of the fading of the signature Of the fading of the signature 01.03.2021 News © Andrew Phelps With the beginning of March begins the third semester under the sign of the virus, still universities are "until further notice" in distance teaching. On the periphery of the field of vision, art universities are struggling to maintain the course of studies: Although much takes place under strict security precautions in face-to-face teaching, but there is a lack of the publicity that is essential to the realization of art. Art is created in the eye of the beholder. With his provocative 4'33’, the American composer John Cage made it clear as early as the 1950s that only hearing turns the audible into music. Seeing and hearing, understanding and appreciating are to be understood as achievements of civilisation. The composer Jean Sibelius put it in a nutshell: ‘Art is the signature of civilisation.’ The reverse conclusion is obvious: in times of Covid-19, this signature is fading and civilisation is losing its contours. And perhaps, after a long period of existence as screen existences, we will awaken in Michael Ende's ‘never-ending story’: in the fading of civilisation and its power of imagination. This makes the countless initiatives and activities of artists against the silencing and disappearance all the more encouraging. They find support in the media, the fourth estate in the state, which celebrates the urgently needed perception in the best possible way and thus prevents the the best possible way and thus offers the survival of art's fading out by decree. Monument! Our language is also full of images and makes us sit up and take notice; it provides information about short-term thinking in crisis situations and the underlying mindset. ‘System relevance’, for example, raises several questions at once: What does ‘system’, a term that is otherwise more likely to be localised in totalitarian states, mean in this context? And In the event that ‘system’ here stands for society or health, what does the exclusion of education and culture from ‘system relevance’ signal to us? That negative tests are to be regarded as positive, is unlikely to be adopted in the education system, and the Anglicisms distance learning, homeschooling or home office are difficult to translate into German: Working from home sounds outdated, distance learning or distance mode are linguistically opposed to the internalisation or appropriation of learning content. linguistically.  We keep our distance and zoom in on our private spheres. But how much closeness can we tolerate and how much distance do we need? Between isolation and exposure stands a nice baby elephant as a Pokémon figure. Really? The need for protection urgently needs to be re-examined, because what is at stake here is the mental health of our society and therefore its future viability. In the artistic process of making in-between tones and silence audible, visualising interstices and emptiness, exploring counter-worlds and interrogating counter-algorithms, a reconquest of the world can take place that has been blocked out in the noise of crisis mode. When Goethe upholds art as the mediator of the inexpressible, this is exactly what he means. Artistic creation, creativity and culture expand the realities of our lives and thus also the possibility of diversity in communities. It is also worth noting that a recently published study on the cultural and creative industries before and after Covid-19, published by Ernst & Young in close cooperation with GESAC, an association of 32 European collecting societies, under the title ‘Rebuilding Europe’, shows the economic weight of this sector and the high growth potential that became apparent in the years 2013 to 2019. that became visible between 2013 and 2019. With a trade balance of 8.6 billion euros (2019) and 7.6 million jobs, the H&C economy is or was an important sector. In 2020, turnover fell by an estimated 31 per cent, with theatre (-90 per cent) and music (-76 per cent) being hit the hardest. The study concludes that the crisis will have a massive and lasting impact on the entire value chain of the cultural and creative industries and presents a three-stage plan to meet the challenge of ‘Rebuilding Europe’. Rebuilding this sector also means rebuilding our civilisation as a normative force of our self-image. The current generation of students must play a part in this reconstruction, As a university, we should support them. ‘Art is what you can get away with.’ - Andy Warhol   (First published in the Uni-Nachrichten / Salzburger Nachrichten on 1 March 2021) More News In memoriam Andrej Hovrin 14.9.2026 In memoriam Andrej Hovrin  It is with great dismay and deep sorrow that we have learned of the far-too-early passing of our esteemed accompanist and colleague, Andrej Hovrin. In memoriam Funding & Calls for proposals (german only) 1.9.2026 Funding & Calls for proposals (german only)  Open Call Awards & achievements (german only) 1.9.2026 Awards & achievements (german only)  Awards & Successes Bella Musica Tour 2026: Concert for Radio Vaticana 21.8.2026 Bella Musica Tour 2026: Concert for Radio Vaticana  Two violins from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s personal collection will accompany this year’s Italian tour of the Bella Musica Pre-College Ensemble of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, conducted by Stefan David Hummel. Mozart’s extraordinary childhood violin and his concert violin, both from the collection of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, will be heard in Rome in September 2026. Press release More news

Orff's 125th birthday, the 100th anniversary of Wilhelm Keller, and the 60th anniversary of the Orff Institute provide an opportunity in 2021 - one year late due to corona - to illuminate Carl Orff's pioneering work from an artistic and scholarly perspective.

We look with horror at the latest developments in Hungary's cultural and educational landscape: a government-appointed board of trustees has taken over the governing powers of the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) and abolished the university's autonomy.

In particular, the project addresses students, young adults, and career changers for whom access to knowledge about artistic professions and study opportunities is difficult due to their social and local conditions.