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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 ... 12 prize winners at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy 12.8.2025 12 prize winners at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy  Under the artistic direction of Hannfried Lucke, four intensive weeks came to an end on Saturday, featuring 57 masterclasses in 13 subjects, Young Excellence classes and numerous additional offerings on health and professional qualification for musicians. A total of 12 prize winners were honoured for their outstanding achievements. Press release Christiaan Willemse wins Ö1 Talent Exchange Composition Prize 2025 4.6.2025 Christiaan Willemse wins Ö1 Talent Exchange Composition Prize 2025  The Ö1 Composition Prize 2025, endowed with 10,000 euros, goes to the young composer Christiaan Willemse. He is studying composition in the postgraduate programme with Johannes Maria Staud at the Mozarteum University and impressed the jury with his personal and technically advanced works and compositional flair - congratulations! Awards & Successes Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli 27.5.2025 Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli  The only voice teacher Cecilia Bartoli has ever had is her mother, the soprano Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni. We are delighted to announce that from 4 to 8 August 2025, professional singers of all voice types will have the unique opportunity to work personally with Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni on ‘fundamental principles of vocal technique - the basis of a long singing life’ in a masterclass as part of the International Summer Academy at Mozarteum University. Registration is open now. News Dreamy, gestural, interwoven, humorous - or a chaotic hustle and bustle 14.4.2025 Dreamy, gestural, interwoven, humorous - or a chaotic hustle and bustle  Tina Geroldinger, a young Austrian composer, and Maurycy Hartman, clarinettist and founding member of the Ensemble for Contemporary Music, in conversation about the new ensemble, opportunities and possibilities for contemporary music in the current music world and about special moments that arise when people engage intensively with each other musically. Interview

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 ... Welcoming Masterclasses – Lisa Batiashvili & Claudio Martínez Mehner 19.12.2025 Welcoming Masterclasses – Lisa Batiashvili & Claudio Martínez Mehner  Save the date: The Mozarteum University cordially invites you to experience Lisa Batiashvili (violin) and Claudio Martínez Mehner (piano) in person during a two-day masterclass. We are delighted to welcome these two outstanding musicians to the Mozarteum. News Quang Nguyen wins first prize at the Vindobona Song Competition 19.12.2025 Quang Nguyen wins first prize at the Vindobona Song Competition  We warmly congratulate the winners of the first Vindobona Song Competition at the Mozarteum University, which took place from 15 to 17 December 2025. In addition to Quang Nguyen, a student of Bernd Valentin and Pauliina Tukiainen, who received the first prize of €6,000, Miriam Bitschnau was awarded the second prize of €3,000 and Gabija Utaraitė and Alice Dreier shared the third prize of €1,500. The prize of €2,000 for the most convincing student piano performance went to Miquel Esquinas. Awards & Successes Award of Excellence for Leonor Dill 15.12.2025 Award of Excellence for Leonor Dill  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! Awards & Successes Honorary Professor Maria Kalesnikava is free 15.12.2025 Honorary Professor Maria Kalesnikava is free  The Mozarteum University Salzburg is extremely happy and relieved about the release of its honorary professor Maria Kalesnikava and 122 other political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the human rights organisation Viasna, Ales Bjaljazki, from detention in Belarus. Thanks to careful mediation by the USA, Kalesnikava was released from prison on Saturday, 13 October 2025 after almost five years of incarceration in apalling and inhumane conditions. News

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!

At the Federal Competition of German-Speaking Acting Students 2022, held in Ludwigsburg from June 19 to 25, 2022, the 4th year acting class was able to bring an ensemble prize back to Salzburg for the production ¡Los Bernarrrdá's!.

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.

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.

A historic moment: On October 12, the first eight Hungarian acting students received their graduation diplomas as part of the "Emergency Exit" cooperation program between Freeszfe Budapest and the University Mozarteum Salzburg!

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.

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 Elisabeth Gutjahr © 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 Welcoming Masterclasses – Lisa Batiashvili & Claudio Martínez Mehner 19.12.2025 Welcoming Masterclasses – Lisa Batiashvili & Claudio Martínez Mehner  Save the date: The Mozarteum University cordially invites you to experience Lisa Batiashvili (violin) and Claudio Martínez Mehner (piano) in person during a two-day masterclass. We are delighted to welcome these two outstanding musicians to the Mozarteum. News Quang Nguyen wins first prize at the Vindobona Song Competition 19.12.2025 Quang Nguyen wins first prize at the Vindobona Song Competition  We warmly congratulate the winners of the first Vindobona Song Competition at the Mozarteum University, which took place from 15 to 17 December 2025. In addition to Quang Nguyen, a student of Bernd Valentin and Pauliina Tukiainen, who received the first prize of €6,000, Miriam Bitschnau was awarded the second prize of €3,000 and Gabija Utaraitė and Alice Dreier shared the third prize of €1,500. The prize of €2,000 for the most convincing student piano performance went to Miquel Esquinas. Awards & Successes Award of Excellence for Leonor Dill 15.12.2025 Award of Excellence for Leonor Dill  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! Awards & Successes Honorary Professor Maria Kalesnikava is free 15.12.2025 Honorary Professor Maria Kalesnikava is free  The Mozarteum University Salzburg is extremely happy and relieved about the release of its honorary professor Maria Kalesnikava and 122 other political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the human rights organisation Viasna, Ales Bjaljazki, from detention in Belarus. Thanks to careful mediation by the USA, Kalesnikava was released from prison on Saturday, 13 October 2025 after almost five years of incarceration in apalling and inhumane conditions. News More news

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.

On November 25, Hildegard Fraueneder was awarded the Salzburg Prize of the Kulturfonds for her special achievements and commitment.