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In the internationally oriented Pre-College, talented young people are given the best possible support at an early stage and receive comprehensive preparation for music studies as well as for a later artistic career. In addition to the training of highly gifted students, special talents are given increased attention.

On 3rd and 17th December 2025, two workshops took place: ‘Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand’ (Under the pavement lies the beach) with Stephanie Müller and Klaus Erika Dietl (Mediendienst, Leistungshölle, Munich) and ‘WALDWERDEN’ (Becoming Forest) with Theresa Schütz (Vienna). Third year students from Bundesgymnasium Seekirchen and Lebenshilfe were invited to creatively explore the topic of urban mobility.

Mozarteum University's support programme for young music-lovers will be running again in autumn 2026. Registrations are open until 10th July.

Leonor Dill received an Award of Excellence for her dissertation entitled ‘Schubert's Metamorphoses. C.G. Jung's Archetype Theory as a Basis for Musical Analysis – An Investigation of the Creative Process’. Congratulations!

After a break due to corona, the Department of Fine Arts and Design is finally opening its workshops and studios again: from April 6 to 8, interested parties will have the opportunity to gain insights into the diverse work of young artists and to try their hand at numerous workshops. Concerts and performances round off the program. The Tour 2022 will be accompanied by a charity art sale for Ukraine.

On 15 March 2023, the first event in a series of events organised by Salzburg's universities in cooperation with the Wissenstransferzentrum West (Knowledge Transfer Centre West) was dedicated to a hot topic: the impact of artificial intelligence on our everyday lives. The explosive nature of the topic and the fact that the discussion has arrived in the university context and in our society was demonstrated by the full Small Studio at the Mozarteum University.

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.

Following a successful masterclass and a sold-out concert with the Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg in March 2025, Christian Thielemann will take up a position as Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Mozarteum University in October 2026. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Claudio Martínez Mehner will also begin teaching in the 2026/27 academic year.

The Applied Theatre Master's programme at Mozarteum University celebrates its 5th birthday. A look back and ahead with Prof. Ulrike Hatzer, who has headed the programme since 2019.

Christopher Lindinger is an innovation researcher, computer scientist and cultural manager. He co-founded the Futurelab at Ars Electronica in Linz and was co-director of the Media Lab until he was appointed vice rector at JKU Linz in 2019. On October 1, he took up the first professorship for art and digitality at the Mozarteum University.