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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 ASEAN-European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) was founded in 1994 and is currently made up of over 80 universities in around 20 countries. The aim of the university network is to promote research and teaching activities between the member universities in Europe and Southeast Asia (in Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam).

The Mozarteum University congratulates its alumna Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin on receiving the Grand Art Prize of the State of Salzburg 2024! With this award, which is being presented to a female composer for the first time this year, the State of Salzburg is sending a strong signal in favour of the importance and creativity of women in music. The Grand Art Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded annually alternately in the fields of visual arts, literature, music and performing arts.

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.

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.

At the national competition for German-speaking drama students in Frankfurt, the final year of the Thomas Bernhard Institute at the Mozarteum University won several prizes for its production of Elfriede Jelinek's "The Silent Girl". In addition to the Swiss Ensemble Prize and the Audience Prize/Students' Prize, we are delighted to have won two solo prizes for Payam Yazdani and Joyce Mayne Sanhá.

The student of the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum University Giulia Giammona won the prize of the 20th Festival Körber Studio Junge Regie with her production "Penelope" yesterday on 9 June 2024. We congratulate her warmly!

Once again this year, the Thomas Bernhard Institute opened its doors & theatre for #summercamp24: 25 teenagers and young adults immersed themselves in the world of theatre, but above all in everyday life at drama school, under the direction of Renate Aichinger from 7 to 12 July 2024: What is it like to study at the Mozarteum? What exactly do you learn there? And most importantly for some: how do the entrance exams work?

Nikita Buldyrski, actor and graduate of the Thomas Bernhard Institute, is honoured with the prestigious Alfred Kerr Actor Award. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding performance by a young actor in one of the ten productions at the Berlin Theatre Meeting. It is endowed with 5,000 euros in prize money and is awarded by the Alfred Kerr Foundation with the support of the Berliner Festspiele.

From 3 June to 31 July 2024, the students of the Mozarteum University will have their say: your opportunity to express your opinion on the quality of teaching, studies and the university's service facilities via an online questionnaire.

The Institute for Open Arts at the Mozarteum University recently moved into premises at Franz-Josef-Straße 18 that were once occupied by the Austrian National Bank. An interview with Prof. Claudia Lehmann, who has headed the institute since 2023.

The Slovenian-Austrian violinist Igor Ozim taught at the Mozarteum University from 2002 to 2016. He died in Salzburg on 23 March 2024.

The British businessman, musician and philanthropist Sir Ian Stoutzker made a lifelong commitment to young musicians out of a deep conviction that music is an important factor in everyone's life. He died on 6 April 2024 at the age of 95.

From the very beginning, the 'World Exhibition' fascinated visitors with its overambitious plan to stage the 'world' and its present in a limited space in one place within six months. An endeavour that challenges the superlative in all its facets: conceptually, logistically and financially.

The University Mozarteum Salzburg is looking for art practitioners to enroll in the PhD in the Arts, a doctoral programme in artistic research. Artists from any field of practice are encouraged to apply, including but not limited to music, the visual arts, theatre, dance, film, digital media, and design.

Directing graduate Ebru Tartıcı Borchers is nominated for the prestigious German theater award DER FAUST 2023! The award honors outstanding artistic achievements that reflect the diversity of the theater landscape in Germany.